Tuesday, May 12, Franklin Lew Forum, Peter A. Allard School of Law | 5:30 – 7 pm
About the Talk
What does it mean that the prosperity of wealthy places often depends on the impoverishment of other places and people?
In this keynote, Dr. Ananya Roy will explore the deep and often invisible interrelationships between racialized global markets and consumerism, and the conditions that perpetuate poverty worldwide. Drawing on her acclaimed research, Dr. Roy examines how the wealth of the global north is structurally tied to the marginalization of the global south and how these dynamics play out not only at the international scale, but also within the power structures of our own cities and urban spaces.
This is a talk about accountability, about seeing what has been made invisible, and about reimagining what’s possible when we commit to justice.
About the Speaker
Dr. Ananya Roy is a Professor of Urban Planning, Social Welfare, and Geography and The Meyer and Renee Luskin Chair in Inequality and Democracy at the University of California, Los Angeles. Dr. Roy is an internationally sought-after educator and researcher, and the founding Director of the UCLA Luskin Institute on Inequality and Democracy. A scholar of global racial capitalism and postcolonial development, her work is concerned with the political economy and politics of dispossession and displacement.
A small reception will follow the keynote in Allard Hall.
Register HereThis event is presented in partnership with Peter A. Allard School of Law and the Centre for Feminist Legal Studies. Special thanks to UBC’s REF fund for providing additional funding.
