Ilan Kapoor
ilankapoor.bsky.social
Ilan Kapoor
@ilankapoor.bsky.social

professor of critical development studies, faculty of environmental and urban change, york university, toronto; views are my own

Ilan Kapoor is a professor of Critical Development Studies at the Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change at York University in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He is an influential postcolonial scholar, considered the first to bring both psychoanalysis and postcolonial analysis to the field of Development Studies. He is the author of seven books and numerous articles on postcolonial politics, psychoanalysis, participatory development, and celebrity humanitarianism. .. more

Political science 40%
Sociology 26%

My article just out in Political Geography: "Extimate Nature: Environmental Crisis and the Excluded" (open access): www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Extimate nature: Environmental crisis and the Excluded
Drawing on the Lacanian notion of “extimacy,” which denotes that which is both intimate and exterior, this article aims to contribute to the bourgeoni…
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Art and environmental activism! The first ever artwork installed on an active (Shell) oil and gas platform: vimeo.com/1109966939/e...
GP - Star Hero Film - AD - R4
This is "GP - Star Hero Film - AD - R4" by Greenpeace MG on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.
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Reposted by Ilan Kapoor

NEW in PG - Psychoanalytic political ecology, by Pieter de Vries and @ilankapoor.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Compelling analysis on contemporary fascism by Zahi Zalloua in the Philosophical Salon: www.thephilosophicalsalon.com/fascism-from...

Fossil fuel companies should be forced to pay the public trillions in damages for the costs of their planetary arson. Instead they are trying to shut down one of the most important and storied environmental groups in the world. It's shameless - and it's not over. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Greenpeace must pay hundreds of millions over Dakota pipeline protests, says jury
Non-profit said in statement lawsuits like this aimed at ‘destroying the right to peaceful protest’
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Reposted by Ilan Kapoor

With all the talk of national defence in Canada, we argue food sovereignty needs to be part of a "total defence" strategy.

theconversation.com/why-canada-m...
Why Canada must treat its food system as a matter of national defence
Faced with both a trade war and annexation threats, Canada must confront whether its domestic food systems can feed its population in a crisis.
theconversation.com

Very pleased with the forum on Psychoanalysis and Development framed by Gavin Fridell's (@gavinfridell.bsky.social) and my article (and 2024 book) with 4 responses and our response to the responses, in the Canadian Journal of Development Studies, just out: www.tandfonline.com/toc/rcjd20/4...
Canadian Journal of Development Studies / Revue canadienne d'études du développement
Volume 46, Issue 1 of Canadian Journal of Development Studies / Revue canadienne d'études du développement
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