Psychic and Political Dimensions of Displacement: A Dialogue with A Social Science Perspective

Bettina von Lieres, Ph.D., is Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream, in the Centre for Critical Development Studies at the University of Toronto Scarborough. She is currently the cochair of the Teaching, Training and Mentoring Committee of the SSHRC-funded global research partnership, the Participedia Project, which is hosted by UBC’s Centre for the Study of Democratic Institutions. The Participedia Project is an international research partnership with the goal of creating a common, open-source knowledge resource about global participatory democratic innovations. She has a PhD in Political Theory (University of Essex, 2002). Her recent publications include two books - Domains of Freedom: Justice, Citizenship and Social Change in South Africa (2016, co-edited with Thembela Kepe and Melissa Levin) and Mediated Citizenships: The Informal Politics of Speaking for Citizens in the Global South (2014, co-edited with Laurence Piper).
CONTACT Bettina von Lieres, Teaching Stream, Centre for Critical Development Studies, University of Toronto Scarborough, 1265 Military Trail Scarborough, Toronto, ON M1C1A4, Canada.