Ilan Kapoor | |
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Relatives | Anish Kapoor (brother) |
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Education | University of Toronto (Doctorate of Arts) |
Academic work | |
Discipline | development studies, comparative politics, political theory, psychoanalysis, postcolonialism, humanitarianism, global political economy, political ecology |
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Website | www |
Ilan Kapoor (born 1959) is a professor of Critical Development Studies at the Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change at York University in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.[1][2] He is an influential postcolonial scholar, considered the first to bring both psychoanalysis and postcolonial analysis to the field of Development Studies.[3][4] He is the author of seven books and numerous articles on postcolonial politics, psychoanalysis, participatory development, and celebrity humanitarianism.[5]