Davina Bhandar

Davina Bhandar’s research interests are in the intersecting fields of critical race theory, anti-colonialism, abolition, feminist studies, contemporary theories of democracy, freedom, citizenship, sovereignty, and securitized borders. Her ongoing research focus is on the migration and relocation of diaspora communities from Punjab, India, in the territories of the lək̓ʷəŋən (Lekwungen), Songhees and Coast Salish Peoples with the structures of the settler colonial state of Canada. She has been invested in understanding the formations and structures of citizenship through histories of migration, relocation, practices of emplacement, and belonging. She is tracing the practices of material domestic cultural textile production and women’s labour. Most recently she has been involved in a collaborative research project that is grounded in intersectional feminist practice and poetics. The Insurgent/ Resurgent Knowledges Lab (IRKlab.ca) is a generative, virtual intergenerational research community where activists, artists, dreamers, scholars, students come together to centre trajectories of insurgent and resurgent knowledge. The four founders of IRK collaborate on various topics, but most closely examine institutional power, racial capitalism, understanding care, ethics, and community practice.

• Victoria British Columbia Canada