Background
Bachelor of Arts (Honours), English and Anthropology, McMaster University
Masters of Arts, Anthropology, McMaster University.
PhD, Socio-Cultural Anthropology, McMaster University.
Teaching
For the 2011/12 academic year I am teaching Introduction to Anthropology (SOAN 1102), Global Human Issues (SOAN 2203), Inequality and Social Protest (SOAN 3308), and Contemporary Social Theory (SOAN 4416). In addition to working with students conducting honours theses at the Mount, I am also an adjunct member of the Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology at Dalhousie University where I work with undergraduate and graduate students on their theses.
For more detailed information on my approach to SOAN 1102 and 2203, please see my sample course outlines.
Research
A socio-cultural anthropologist by training, my research interests revolve around the following issues: culture, power, and resistance; globalization; critical and radical political theory; the radical imagination, socio-political struggle and transformation, and social movements; anti-capitalism, anarchism, and grassroots alternative-building. Over the last decade, I have done research in Mexico, the United States, and Canada focusing on the relationship between the radical imagination and radical social movements. I am the author of two books, Zapatistas: Rebellion from the Grassroots to the Global (2010, Zed Books and Fernwood Publishing) and Zapatismo Beyond Borders: New Imaginations of Political Possibility (2008, University of Toronto Press), and the co-editor both of a forthcoming edited volume about transnational activism (with Jeffrey Juris) and a special issue of the journal Affinities (with Max Haiven). I am also the author of several articles that have been published in edited volumes and in journals such as Anthropologica, Critique of Anthropology, Ephemera, and Journal for the Study of Radicalism.
For more information about my research, teaching, and writing, please go to http://alexkhasnabish.wordpress.com/.