Courses Taught
Research Interests
Research Grant Projects
Curriculum Vitae
Publications
Invited Presentations
Awards
Graduate Supervision
Service
Hobbies
Links to favorite Sites

Courses Taught

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Research Interests

Feminist theory, comparative feminisms, transnational feminist organizing, gender and racial politics, children's rights, civil society in Japan/Asia and France/Europe, globalization and resistance, world social forum, GATS/WTO, GMO politics, immigration and asylum, higher education reforms in Japan and France.

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Research Grant Projects

As principal investigator:

• 2005-6 ABE Fellowship, Social Science Research Council, USD75,185. “Globalization and Governance Reforms: A Comparative Study of Japan and France”.

• 2004-5 Advanced Research Fellowship, Program on US-Japan Relations, Weatherhead Centre for International Affairs, Harvard University. USD45,000. “Constructing Global Citizenship: Japanese Advocacy Nongovernmental Organizations in the Alternative Globalization Movement”.

• Humanities and Social Sciences Large Grant, 2004-5, University of British Columbia, $6,760. "The Claims of Culture: Affirmative Action and Multicultural Education in France and Japan".

• Canadian Institutes of Health Research (Themes 3&4: Population Health and Health Services & Systems Research), 2004-5, $2,700. "Knowledge as intellectual property or knowledge for public health: the global movement for the access to basic medicines"

• Humanities and Social Sciences Bridge Grant, 2004, University of British Columbia, $2,000. "Deliberative Democracy and Cognitive Justice: The Role of Transnational Social Movements in Constructing Cosmopolitan Citizenships."

• Institute for European Studies, 2003, University of British Columbia, $1,000. "The Construction of "Another" Globalization: The Role of Transnational Literacy in Addressing the Issue of Democratic Deficit."

As participant:

• Grant from European Commission. Contributor in book project entitled "Towards an Alternative Tricontinental Partnership?: Responses to Global Issues in EU, Japanese, and Canadian Policy-Making."
  

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Curriculum Vitae

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Publications
Books and Journal Articles

Jennifer Chan-Tiberghien. 2005. “Cultural Diversity as Resistance to Neoliberal Globalization: The Emergence of a Global Movement and Convention.” International Review of Education. Under Review.

Jennifer Chan-Tiberghien. 2005. “La Participation Feministe Au Mouvement Altermondialiste: Une Critique de L’organisation Mondiale du Commerce”. Recherches Feministes. VOL. 17, NO. 2.

Jennifer Chan-Tiberghien. 2004. Gender and Human Rights Plitics in Japan: Global Norms and Domestic Networks. Stanford University Press.

Jennifer Chan-Tiberghien. 2004. “Towards a ‘Global Educational Justice Research Paradigm: Cognitive Justice, Decolonizing Methodologies and Critical Pedagogy. Globlisation, Societies and Education. Vol. 2, Issue 2.

Jennifer Chan-Tiberghien. 2004. “Gender-Skepticism or Gender Boom: Poststructural Feminisms, Transnational, Feminisms, and the World Conference Against Racism”. International Feminist Journal of Politics. Vol. 6, Issue 3.

Chapters in Books

Jennifer Chan-Tiberghien. 2005. “Le Renouvellement Politique par La Societe” in Jean-François Sabouret (ed), La Dynamique du Japon.

Jennifer Chan-Tiberghien. 2004. "Gender as Intersectionality: Multiple Discrimination against Minority Women in Japan" in M. Nakamura and P. Potter (eds), Comparative International Studies of Social Cohesion and Globalization in Asia: Japan. Palgrave Macmillan Press.

Jennifer Chan-Tiberghien. 2003. "The Rise of a Women's Human Rights Epistemic Network in the 1990s: Global Norms, Gender Politics, and Civil Society" in Errol Mendes, ed., "Bridging the Global Divide on Human Rights: a Canada-China Dialogue". Ashgate Publishing.

Francisco Ramirez and Jennifer Chan-Tiberghien. 2003. "Globalization and Education in Asia" with Francisco Ramirez in The Handbook on Educational Research in the Asia Pacific Region. Kluwers Academic Publishers.

Conference Presentations and Proceedings

Jennifer Chan-Tiberghien. 2005. "Towards a Global Convention on Cultural Diversity: Voices from Minority Women in Japan" and "the Decolonization of Imagination: Claims for Cognitive Justice by Peasant Communities, Migrant Workers and Ethnic Women Students in the Context of Globalization". Panel organizer and Presenter at the Women's Worlds 2005: 9th Interdisciplinary Congress on Women, Seoul, Korea.

Jennifer Chan-Tiberghien. 2004. "Cultural Diversity as Resistance to Neoliberal Globalization: The Emergence of a Global Movement and Convention". Panel Organizer and Presenter, "Globalization from Below: The Role of Transnational Social Movements in Redefining Educational Multilateralism" at the 12th World Congress of Comparative Education Societies, Havana, Cuba.

Jennifer Chan-Tiberghien. 2004. "Globalization, Resistance and Critical Pedagogy". Conference proceedings of the 2004 joint annual conference of Canadian Association for the Study of Adult Education and Adult Education Research Conference. University of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada

"Culture as Capitalism or Counter Hegemony: On the Politics of a Proposed International Convention on Cultural Diversity². 2004. "Towards an Alternative Tricontinental Partnership?: Responses to Global Issues in EU, Japanese, and Canadian Policy-Making," Conference organized by the Institute of European Studies, University of British Columbia.

Jennifer Chan-Tiberghien. 2003. "Gender-Skepticism or Gender-Boom: Poststructural Feminisms, Transnational Feminisms, and the World Conference against Racism." Panel Organizer and Presenter, "Speaking Back: What Transnational Feminism has to Offer to Poststructural Feminism?" at the International Studies Association Annual Convention, Portland, Oregon.

Jennifer Chan-Tiberghien. 2001. "Redefining Children's Human Rights as Japanese State Interests." Presented in the Nongovernmental Organization Workshop organized by International Movement against All Forms of Discrimination and Racism at the Second World Congress against Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children, Yokohama.

Jennifer Chan-Tiberghien. 2001. "The Rise of a Women's Human Rights Epistemic Network in the 1990s: Global Norms, Gender Politics, and Civil Society." Presented at the Canada-China Conference on International Human Rights, jointly organized by the Human Rights Research and Education Center at the University of Ottawa and Beijing University Law School, Beijing.

Jennifer Chan-Tiberghien. 2001. "Global Resonance and Resistance: Affirmative Alternatives for Educational Policy, Practice, and Transformation", Comparative and International Education Society 2001, Washington DC. Presented "Socializing States in the World Community: The Teaching of International Human Rights Norms by Nongovernmental Organizations".

Jennifer Chan-Tiberghien. 2001. "Creating a Gender-Equal Society in Japan: The Interaction between Women's Studies, Governmental Reforms, and Nongovernmental Organizations". "Women's Studies: Asian Connections", Center for Research in Women's Studies and Gender Relations, University of British Columbia.

Jennifer Chan-Tiberghien. 2000. "Daring To Talk: Nongovernmental Organizations and the Diffusion of Norms on Violence against Women in Japan". Presented at the "2000 Subversions: Women's Studies and the Twenty-First Century", National Women's Studies Association, Simmons College, Boston.

Jennifer Chan-Tiberghien. 1999. Embedded State: Global Norms Redefining the Status of Women in Japan." Presented at the "New Rights For a New Millennium? A Graduate Conference on New Scholarship in International Human Rights", Center for International Studies and Cooperation, Stanford University.

Jennifer Chan-Tiberghien. 1998. "The Power of Unarmed Prophets: Nongovernmental Organizations as Carriers of Human Rights Education". Presented at the "Dance on the Edge", Comparative and International Education Society Western Region Conference, University of British Columbia.

Jennifer Chan-Tiberghien. 1997 "Carrying World Culture: Human Rights Education as a Global Project". Presented at the "Education, Democracy and Development at the Turn of the Century", Comparative and International Education Society Western Region Conference, Mexico City.

Book Reviews

Jennifer Chan-Tiberghien. 2005. “Civil Society and Political Change in Asia”. Journal of East Asian Studies. Vol. 5, No. 3. In press.

Jennifer Chan-Tiberghien. 2005. “Globalization and Human Rights”. Journal of East Asian Studies. Vol. 5, No. 2. In press.

Jennifer Chan-Tiberghien. 2005. "Improving People's Lives: Lessons in Empowerment from Asia". Book Review. Pacific Affairs. Vol. 77, No.4.

Jennifer Chan-Tiberghien. 2004. "The State of Civil Society in Japan". Book Review. Pacific Affairs. Vol. 77, No.2.

Jennifer Chan-Tiberghien. 2004. "Globalization and Educational Restructuring in the Asia-Pacific Region". Book Review. Pacific Affairs. Vol. 77, No.3.

Jennifer Chan-Tiberghien. 1999. "UNESCO - 50 Years of Education". Book Review. International Journal of Education Development. 19/1: 101-102.

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Invited Presentations

April 2005. “Constructing Global Citizenship: Japanese Advocacy Nongovernmental Organizations in the Alternative Globalization Movement”. Program on US-Japan Relations, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University.

November 2004. “From gender equality to gender intersectionality: Implications for Educational Approaches and Social Movement Mobilization in Japan”. First International Conference on Gender Equity Education in the Asia-Pacific Region, organized by the Population and Gender Studies Center, National Taiwan University, Taipei.

January 2004. "Redefining Race in Japan: Global Norms and Domestic Networks". Center for Japanese Studies, Institute for Asian Research, University of British Columbia.

January 2002. "Postmodernizing International Norms: The Impact of Transnational Feminist Organizing on the World Conference against Racism." Faculty of Law, University of British Columbia.

Decembe4 2001. "Redefining Children's Human Rights as Japanese State Interests." Second World Congress against Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children, Yokohama, Japan.

September 2001. "Redefining Racism: The Potential and Limits of Global Civil Society. A Report from the World Conference against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia, and Related Intolerances (WCAR) in Durban, South Africa." Institute of International Relations. University of British Columbia.

September 2001. "Gender, Human Rights and Political Change: The Impact of Global Norms on State-Civil Society Relations in Japan." The Centre for Research in Women's Studies and Gender Relations Lecture Series, University of British Columbia.

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Awards

ABE Fellowship, 2005-6, Social Science Research Council, USA.
Advanced Research Fellowship, 2004-5, Program on US-Japan Relations, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University.

Gail P. Kelly Award for Outstanding Dissertation, 2003. Comparative and International Education Studies Society. "The Rise of a Women's Human Rights Epistemic Network: Global Norms and Local Education Redefining Gender Politics in Japan." Ph.D. Dissertation, 2001, Stanford University School of Education.

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Graduate Supervision

Advisor:

Rachel Speiran, M.A. thesis, Department of Educational Studies, University of British Columbia. "Culture and Beyond: An Evaluation of Intercultural Training in the Mining Industry".

Committee Member:

Romee Lee, Ph.D. dissertation, Department of Educational Studies, University of British Columbia. "Disposable" Labourer vs. Active Learner: Learning for Foreign Contingent Workers".

Nada Orr, M.A. thesis, Department of Educational Studies, University of British Columbia

Xuehong Liao, M.A. thesis, Department of Educational Studies, University of British Columbia

Reader:

Lisa Okada. 2004. M. Ed. Graduating Paper in the Faculty of Graduate Studies, University of British Columbia. "Visibilizing the Empty Spaces: Antiracism and Adult Education".

Reyla Lopez. 2003. "Women's Empowerment: A Case Study of a Poverty Reduction Project in Rural China". M. Ed. Graduating Paper in the Faculty of Graduate Studies, University of British Columbia.

Chantal Poux. 2003. "De la Prise de Conscience au Passage à l'Acte ou de la Nature Politique des Etudes sur les Femmes en Chine Contemporaine". M.A. thesis in Asia Pacific Policy Studies, University of British Columbia.

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Service

Peer Reviewer:

• Canadian Journal of Education
• Sage Publications.
• Canadian Scholars' Press/Women's Press
• Thirdspace, online graduate student journal in women's studies

Translator, Japan Civil Liberties Union.

Discussant, “Remaking Transnationalism: Japan, Foreign Aid, and the Search for Global Solutions”, funded by Abe Fellowship Program, Center for Global Partnership and Social Science Research Council Seminar Series, at the Watson Institute for International Studies, Brown University, February 2005.

Discussant, "International Workshop on University Reform in Six Countries," organized by the Center for Higher Education Policy, University of British Columbia, August 2003.

Guest Lecturer on "Gender and Human Rights Politics in Japan", March 2004, Poli322, Japanese Government and Politics.

International Scholars Committee, Dept. of Educational Studies, UBC

PhD Management and Admissions Committee, Dept. of Educational Studies, UBC

UBC Imagine Prof. 2002

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Hobbies

Travel, Dance, Jazz, and Fiction

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Links to Favorite Sites

World News

Le Monde Diplomatique http://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/
http://MondeDiplo.com/
Courrier International http://www.courrierint.com/actual/accueil.asp
BBC News http://news.bbc.co.uk/
New York Times http://www.nytimes.com/yr/mo/day/world/
Globe and Mail http://www.globeandmail.ca/
Altermedia http://www.altermedia.org/
World Policy Journal http://www.worldpolicy.org/
Far East Economic Review http://www.feer.com/
South China Morning Post http://www.scmp.com/
Ming Pao http://www.mingpao.com/
The New Republic http://www.tnr.com/
The New Yorker http://www.newyorker.com/
Harpers http://www.harpers.org/
N.Y. Review of Books http://www.nybooks.com/
Atlantic Monthly http://www.theatlantic.com/unbound/index.htm

Research Alternative globalization NGOs

ATTAC http://www.attac.org/indexen/index.html
World Devleopment Movement http://www.wdm.org.uk/
Oxfam http://www.oxfam.org.uk/
Council of Canadians http://www.canadians.org/
Common Frontiers http://www.web.net/comfront/

Nongovernmental Feminist Organizations

Child Care Hours for Men and Women Network http://www.eqg.org/index.html
Solidarité et communication électronique pour les femmes en Afrique http://www.apc.org/english/index.shtml

Human Rights Organizations

2nd Edition of the Concise Guide to Human Rights in the Internet. http://www.derechos.org/human-rights/manual.htm
Women's Human Rights Resources, University of Toronto, Bora Laskin Law Library
http://www.law-lib.utoronto.ca/diana/mainpage.htm
Human Rights Internet http://www.hri.ca/welcome.asp
Global Restructuring Global Exchange http://globalexchange.org/
Human Rights Watch http://www.hrw.org/
European Center for Minority Issues http://www.ecmi.de/doc/index.html
Human Rights Education Associates http://www.ecmi.de/doc/index.html

UN Agencies & Regional Institutions

Women's Watch http://www.un.org/womenwatch/
Unifem--United Nations Development Fund for Women http://www.unifem.org/
Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights http://www.unhchr.ch/
UNICEF http://www.unicef.org/
The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) - Gender and Food Security Web site http://www.fao.org/gender/
European Union http://europa.eu.int/index_en.htm
European Commission Daphne Program on Violence Against Women http://europa.eu.int/comm/justice_home/project/daphne/

Women & Politics

Women in Parliaments, Inter-Parliamentary Union http://www.ipu.org/

Women's Studies

University of Maryland's Women's Studies Database http://www.mith2.umd.edu/WomensStudies/
WMST-L Archives http://www.gl.umbc.edu/
NWSA - National Women's Studies Association (USA) http://www.nwsa.org/
Documents from the Women's Liberation Movement An On-line Archival Collection Special Collections Library, Duke University http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/wlm/
Feminist theory website http://www.cddc.vt.edu/feminism/
Institute for Women's Policy Research http://www.iwpr.org
Stanford Institute of Research on Women and Gender http://www.stanford.edu/group/IRWG/

Feminist Scholars Homepages

The Judith Butler Page http://www.theory.org.uk/ctr-butl.htm
Helene Cixous' "The Laugh of the Medusa" Resource Page http://www.vanderbilt.edu/AnS/english/English295/albright/main1.htm
Individual Feminists http://www.cddc.vt.edu/feminism/indiv.html

Other Resources

Feminist Activist Resources on the Net www.women.it/repertori/factres.htm
Meninist http://www.feminist.com/resources/links/men.htm/

Japan

Cabinet Office, Government of Japan http://www.cao.go.jp/index-e.html
Office for Gender Equality, Prime Minister's Office http://www.gender.go.jp/index2.html