The Benefits of Not Belonging | Girish Daswani | TEDxUTSC

Описание: Girish Daswani is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Toronto Scarborough (UTSC) with a graduate appointment at the University of Toronto, St George. He has been with the University of Toronto for ten years and in that time has been awarded the UTSC Student Union Faculty and Teaching Award (2009) and was Associate Director for the Centre for Ethnography at UTSC (2007-2010). Prof Daswani has co-edited a book with Prof Ato Quayson entitled A Companion to Diaspora and Transnationalism Studies and published his monograph Looking Back, Moving Forward: Transformation and Ethical Practice in the Ghanaian Church of Pentecost with the University of Toronto Press. His book was a finalist for the 2016 Canada Prize in Social Sciences. In his more recent research, Prof Daswani is interested in how activists and artists in Ghana are responding to discourses of corruption. In his talk, he will explore the benefits of not belonging and how this feeling can be turned into a productive experience. Girish Daswani is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Toronto Scarborough (UTSC) with a graduate appointment at the University of Toronto, St George. He has been with the University of Toronto for ten years and in that time has been awarded the UTSC Student Union Faculty and Teaching Award (2009) and was Associate Director for the Centre for Ethnography at UTSC (2007-2010). Prof Daswani has co-edited a book with Prof Ato Quayson entitled A Companion to Diaspora and Transnationalism Studies and published his monograph Looking Back, Moving Forward: Transformation and Ethical Practice in the Ghanaian Church of Pentecost with the University of Toronto Press. His book was a finalist for the 2016 Canada Prize in Social Sciences. In his more recent research, Prof Daswani is interested in how activists and artists in Ghana are responding to discourses of corruption. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx