Research Grants and Partnerships
between GET Lab members and other organizations
Monique Deveaux
Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Ethics and Global Social Change
During the first term of my Canada Research Chair in Ethics and Global Social Change, I focused on rethinking and reframing problems of global poverty and inequality within normative ethics and political philosophy. I did research on numerous poor-led organizations and social movements in the global South, and showed how these groups’ more political approach to poverty holds crucial insights for poverty alleviation and the social-political empowerment of poor communities. This research culminated in several journal articles/chapters and my 2021 book, Poverty, Solidarity, and Poor-led Social Movements. My current CRC research focuses on developing a conception of structural exploitation that locates exploitation in the very structure of many important social and economic institutions and practices, and the social and labour relations they enable. I am also working to develop an account of why and how social policies, such as those pertaining to migrant workers, can best address the exploitation of workers by attending to their structural vulnerability and subordination within multiple social structures, and incorporating the proposals advanced by exploited communities and their advocacy groups.
Candace Johnson
Research Partnership on Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR) in Mexico
In 2019 I established a partnership with a group of scholar-activists in Mexico to research SRHR in the context of a contradictory gender justice reality. For example, there are formal reproductive rights guarantees in Mexico, including the right to abortion, yet there are barriers to access even the most basic reproductive health information and services in many parts of the country; there is a highly mobilized and persistent women’s movement, yet rates of violence against women keep rising. With my colleagues, Marta Mercado González and Susana Mejía Flores, both co-founders of the NGO Yolpakilis, and EIia Pérez Nasser, Colegio de Postgraduados, we are researching these patterns through conversations with individuals from various perspectives in communities throughout the state of Puebla. We hope that the engaged, ethnographic approach will result in better public policies, better understandings of gender justice, and, ultimately, better outcomes for women and their families in the most rights-endowed-yet-entitlement-and-resource-constrained areas of the country.