Jennifer Chan

Associate Professor
Department of Educational Studies (EDST)

Her research looks at community mobilization of human rights norms in advancing socio-political change. Dr. Chan has examined a wide range of social movements from feminism to antiracism, HIV and AIDS, indigenous rights, labor, and environmentalism. Her scholarship has had a major impact in our understanding of how international human rights norms can bring about local political change through painstaking educational processes.

Contributions:

Politics in the Corridor of Dying: AIDS Activism and Global Health Governance. Johns Hopkins University Press. Forthcoming in 2015.
“Gar Nar Dai Doe Heem/Canada Apologizes: Redress and a Pedagogy of Accountability.” In Precarious International Multicultural Education: Hegemony, Dissent and Rising Alternatives, edited by Handel Wright, H.K., Singh, M. & Race, R. Rotterdam: Sense Publishers, 2012.
Another Japan is Possible: New Social Movements and Global Citizenship Education. Stanford University Press, 2008.
“Between Efficiency, Capability and Recognition: Competing Epistemes in Global Governance”. Comparative Education. Vol. 43 (3), pp. 359-376, 2006.
Gender and Human Rights Politics in Japan: Global Norms and Domestic Networks. Stanford University Press, 2004.

Keywords:

Social movements; Human rights; Gender; Antiracism; Multiculturalism; Global health; Asia.
jennifer.chan@ubc.ca 
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