Ilan Kapoor

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Ilan Kapoor is a professor of Critical Development Studies at the Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change at York University in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He is an influential postcolonial scholar, considered the first to bring both psychoanalysis and postcolonial analysis to the fields of Development Studies and Political Economy. He is the author of seven books and numerous articles on postcolonial politics, psychoanalysis, global political economy/ecology, participatory development, and celebrity humanitarianism.

Experience

  • 1998–present
    Professor, York University

Education

  • 1993 
    University of Toronto, PhD, Political Science

Publications

  • 2024
    Rethinking Development Politics, Edward Elgar
  • 2023
    Global Libidinal Economy , SUNY Press
  • 2022
    Universal Politics, Oxford University press
  • 2020
    Confronting Desire: Psychoanalysis and International Development, Cornell University Press
  • 2018
    Psychoanalysis and the Global, U Nebraska Press
  • 2013
    Celebrity Humanitarianism: The Ideology of Global Charity, Routledge
  • 2008
    The Postcolonial Politics of Development , Routledge

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