About the Centre for Justice, Equity, and Sustainable Action (JESA)
This name refers to the key areas and principles of our work – justice and equity – while placing a focus on actions that are sustainable. We preferred “sustainable action” over “sustainability” in the name of the centre due to the controversy and critiques around mainstream noions of “sustainability”. Our centre will be probe “sustainability” in ways that go beyond the mainstream or global-North centred understandings. We also wanted to stress that our centre aims for all of our actions to lead to resiliency in the long run.
Areas of expertise:
- Critical and decolonial development studies and practices
- Food security, urban planning, and sustainability
- Gender justice
- Global health, mental health and wellbeing
- Immigration, borders, and belonging
- Forced migration, displacement, human trafficking, and refugee rights
- Indigenous rights
- Child and Youth Rights
- Climate change and justice
- State-society relations, communications, and rhetoric
Approaches and methods used by our Faculty Associates:
- Arts-based
- Participatory action research
- Trauma-informed
- Post-colonial and Decolonial
- Storytelling
- Transnational feminism
- Quantitative and statistical analysis
- Qualitative analysis
- Policy and discourse analysis
- Structural analysis
- Intersectional gender-based analysis
- Spatial and network analysis
- Political ecology
- Archival and historical analysis
- Economic analysis