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I am an Associate Professor of Sociology at York University, Toronto, Canada. I do research on the interconnections of globalization, human/women’s rights, human-non-human connections, critical developmen, Afrofuturism, Decolonization and AI in postcolonial contexts. I am interested in the mobilizing impact of human rights; i.e. how discourses of rights, self-determination and development evolve and are shaped by global events, new technologies (AI) and opportunities. For instance, is Afrofuturism a form of self-determination within third generation human rights? I lead and co-lead various funded international collaborative research projects with funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC), as Principal investigator and co-investigator, among others. I am also an elected board member of the Congress of the Federation of Humanities and Social Sciences in Canada.

Why and So What

Questions of human rights, gender equality, development, and knowledge production are not abstract. They shape how people experience education, work, health, citizenship, and social belonging.

My research examines how global systems — including development institutions, states, and knowledge regimes — produce inequality, and how communities respond, resist, and imagine alternatives. I aim to contribute scholarship that helps make sense of complex global challenges while remaining grounded in lived realities.

Core Research Areas

Core research areas include:

Knowledge Production, Decolonial Futures & Public Scholarship
Investigating whose knowledge counts, how knowledge circulates, and how scholarship can be accountable to communities beyond the academy.

Human Rights, Gender, and Feminisms
Examining how rights, power, and inequality are experienced, contested, and reimagined in diverse social and cultural contexts.

Critical Development & Postcolonial Studies
Interrogating development institutions, political economy, and postcolonial power relations shaping inequality in the Global South.

Afrofuturism, AI & Decolonial Futures
Exploring how African and Black imaginaries, emerging technologies, and decolonial thought open alternative futures beyond dominant Western paradigms.