Members
Rebecca Buys
Deakin University (Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation)
rbuys10@gmail.com
Research Interests: critical relationism, intimate partner violence, practices of care, social change, forms of violence
Toni Čerkez
Head of Department (Liberal Arts in Social Sciences, School of Governance, Law and Society)
Ühiskonnateaduste Instituut
tonicerk@tlu.ee
Linkedin profile
Research Interests: Intersection of international political sociology and international political theory and relational approaches to socio-technical imaginaries and decolonial theory.
Víctor Jiménez Rivera
PhD Candidate and Junior Research Fellow in International Relations (School of Governance, Law and Society)
Tallinn University
victor.jimenez_rivera@tlu.ee
Research Interests: European integration in the Western Balkans, radical relationalism, state capture
Salmaan Kahn
Assistant Professor (Department of Criminology)
Toronto Metropolitan University
s32khan@torontomu.ca
Research Interests: Critical epistemologies and community based research practices, racial capitalism and the intergenerational impacts of precarious work, with a focus on the experiences of racialized workers and their relations, intersectional feminist theory, and theories of social change.
Zoltán Lakatos
Assistant Professor (Department of Sociology and Communication)
Budapest University of Technology and Economics
zlakatos@eik.bme.hu
Research Interests: social values, sociology of economic development, political economy of the media, elite ideologies, symbolic violence
Ximena Maldonado
Research Assistant (Department of Environment, Culture and Society)
Thompson Rivers University
maldonadochavezx24@tru.ca
Research Interests: EDI (Equity, Diversity and Inclusion), antiracism, Indigenous peoples, decolonization, social justice, Indigenous epistemologies, GVB (Gendered Based Violence), feminist epistemologies, trauma and healing, language, radical relational theory, epistemic justice, decolonizing psychology.
Kevin Naimi
Assistant Professor in Foundations and Practices in Education (Faculty of Education and Science)
Laval University
kevin.naimi@fse.ulaval.ca
Research Interests: sociology of education, inequality and equity in education, educational philosophy, sociology of creativity and social reproduction, sociology of childhood and youth
Rebeccah Nelems
Assistant Professor at Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
Athabasca University
rnelems@athabascau.ca
Research Interests: Epistemic justice, eco-social justice, youth climate justice movement, grounded normative theory, transformative social change theory, engaged research methodologies (relational, participatory, decolonizing, Indigenous and arts-based), decolonizing Human Rights and the Rights of Nature, eco-social empathy, collaborative co-parenting
Joonatan Nõgisto
PhD Candidate and Junior Researcher (School of Governance, Law and Society)
Tallinn University
joonatan.nogisto@tlu.ee
Research Interests: relational social ontology, philosophy of social science, mechanistic explanation, relational egalitarianism, wicked problems.
Birgit Poopuu
Associate Professor of International Relations and Head of the International Relations and Futures Studies (School of Governance, Law and Society)
Tallinn University
birgit.poopuu@tlu.ee
Research Interests: role of radical and nonviolent knowledge and experience within international politics, feminist and decolonial approaches to peace and conflict studies, Syrian revolution through the eyes of Syrian activists
Christopher Powell
Associate Professorof Sociology
Co-creator and Co-leader of the ISRR
Toronto Metropolitan University
chris.powell@torontomu.ca
Research Interests: complex systems theory, relational sociology, social transformation, sociological theory, genocide studies
Mónica J. Sánchez-Flores
Associate Professor of Sociology (Department of Environment, Culture and Society)
Co-creator and Co-leader of the ISRR
Thompson Rivers University
msanchez@tru.ca
Research Interests: social and political theory, radical relational theory and ethics, globalization and transnational governance, equity, diversity and inclusion (EDI), processes of racialization and racial healing.
Wasiq Silan
Assistant Professor (Department of Indigenous Affairs and Ethno-Development)
National Dong Hwa University
Wasiq.Silan@gms.ndhu.edu.tw
Affiliated Researcher (University of Helsinki)
Research Interests: political science, Indigenous peoples, long-term care, comparative politics, self-determination, decolonization, social rights, cultural rights, sociology, anthropology, knowledge, Indigenous politics, critical ethnography, power, health, care, social work, community building, Indigenous sovereignty, Indigenous social work, trauma and healing
Ellina Watanabe
PhD Candidate (Management Sciences, LeadershipInstitute for Social Innovation)
Universitat Ramon Llull
ellina.watanabe@alumni.esade.edu
Research Interests: Relationality in leadership and leadership development, leadership futures, relationality at work and in organizations, stewardship, process-relational ontology, qualitative methodology, ethnography, philosophy of science.
Jenna Woodrow
Associate Teaching Professor of Philosophy (Department of Philosophy, History, and Politics)
Thompson Rivers University
jwoodrow@tru.ca
Research Interests: evolution of norms and normative judgments, relationships between agents and their environment, epistemology, epistemic justice, feminist and Indigenous epistemologies, philosophy of mind, embodiment, oppression and agency, philosophy of language, meta-ethics: the problem of moral luck, the problem of freewill and determinism, Kant, logic
Liu Yung-Chen
PhD (Program of Multicultural Education, Department of Education and Human Potentials Development)
National Dong Hwa University, Taiwan
tinan8524@gmail.com
Research Interests: Decolonial pedagogical practices, Indigenous school movements, the disruption of dominant colonial frameworks and language reproduction in schooling, and grassroots educational collectives modeled around Pangcah-led philosophies of relationality.