Amardeep Kaur
Amardeep Kaur holds a PhD in Geography from York University with a Graduate Diploma in Asian Studies. Her doctoral project explored worlding practices and cosmopolitanism among diaspora Sikhs in Hong Kong, Vancouver and Toronto. A multi-disciplinary scholar, her intellectual impetus is driven by opening poetic approaches to further decolonial geographies and religious Earth thought.
Her teaching and research areas consist of 1) Geographies of Power and Resistance, 2) Postcolonial and Decolonial Theory, and 3) Asian Transnationalism and Urbanisms.
Research Interests
- Cosmopolitanism
- worlding
- religious-cultural geography
- politics and poetics of resistance
- decolonial theory
- race and anti-racism in Canada
- Sikh diaspora
- transPacific movements
- Hong Kong
- Asian urbanisms