Ashok Mathur
amathur@ocadu.ca
Vice-President, Research & Dean, School of Graduate Studies
Research & Innovation
Research & Innovation
Areas of expertise: Poetry, Prose, Photography, Text/Art Performance Art
Areas of subject interest: Diasporic Arts, Race/Racialization, Indigenous Creative Practice, Literature, Queer spaces,
Supervisions in: primarily IAMD but have supervised in DIGF, CCP, SFI, and INCD
I have worked at OCAD University as Dean of the School of Graduate Studies and Vice-President Research. My research is both text and art based, using the art-book and novel form as well as photography and installation to address disparate histories. I also deploy critical pedagogy as a form of engaging multiple diasporic voices.
Transnational Border Shopping: Virtual Purchases, Body and Nation
Published: August 22nd 2009
On Public Readings and Pedagogy
Published: August 22nd 2008
Transubracination: How Writers of Colour Became CanLit
Published: August 22nd 2007
Brown Gazing: The Pedagogy and Practice of South Asian Writing in Canada
Published: August 22nd 2000
The Desisting Reader
Published: August 22nd 1993
PhD
Type: English Literature
University of Calgary
Dean of SGS, Vice-President Research
Type: School of Graduate Studies / Office of Research
Ontario College of Art and Design University
iCreate Cape Breton: fostering youth resilience in the face of slow violence
Type: Grant
youth resilience; arts-informed research; integrative science; community engagement; slow violence; social justice; emergent methodologies
Canada Research Chair in Cultural and Artistic Inquiry
Type: Grant
research creation; artistic research; reconciliation; multiculturalism; race and art; interdisciplinary art; innovative art practice
Centre for Innovation in Arts and Culture in Canada
Type: Grant
race; diversity; visual arts; arts; artist researcher
Crces-2021-1
Type: Grant
Crossing Media Crossing Canada: Performing the land we are
Type: Grant
performance art; indigenous knowledge; race; gender; environment; nation; decolonization; collaboration
Beyond reconciliation: Indigenous arts, public engagement, and the aftermath of residential schools
Type: Grant
Indigenous studies; truth and reconciliation; redress; restitution; residential schools; public arts; performance; collaboration; relationality; sovereignty; decolonization; indigenization; arts-based research
CRCES-Unknown
Type: Grant
CRCES-Unknown
kinādās: walking about on the land
Type: Grant
Indigenous art; curatorial practice; art residencies; poetry; performance Indigenous art; curatorial practice; art residencies; poetry; performance
Centre for Innovation in Culture and Arts in Canada
Type: Grant
multiculturalism, postcolonial theory, critical race studies, cultural diversity
Collaborating with the Land: a social laboratory on performance, art, and learning
Type: Grant
art; land; Indigenous; racialization; performance; collaboration
Crossing Media Crossing Canada: Performing the land we are
Type: Grant
performance art; indigenous knowledge; race; gender; environment; nation; decolonization; collaboration
Digital Economy - Sustaining digital scholarship for sustainable culture
Type: Grant
SSHRC Institutional Grants
Type: Grant
Imagining Inclusion: Artists and Arts Workers on EDI in Practice
Type: Grant
artist; arts worker; artist-run-centre; Indigenous; BIPOC; IBPOC; critical race; inclusion; recognition; equity
EDI Stipend
Type: Grant
Mapping quality of life and the culture of small cities
Type: Grant
qualitative indicators; mapping; small cities; quality of life; cultural development and organization; social development
The intranation project: struggles, negotiations, conflicts in the arts
Type: Grant
postcolonial; international art; intranational politics; globalization; nations within nations
Mapping quality of life and the culture of small cities
Type: Grant
qualitative indicators; mapping; small cities; quality of life; cultural development and organization; social development; the arts
Canada Research Chair in Cultural and Artistic Innovation
Type: Grant
multiculturalism; postcolonial theory; critical race studies; cultural diversity
A little distillery in Nowgong: a novel across media
Type: Grant
creative writing; novel; postcolonial; race; migration; globalization; multimedia
Capturing the outcomes and impacts of publicly funded research
Type: Grant
kinadas: walking about on the land
Type: Grant
The proposed project will create a mobile working environment that privileges land-based research-creation and Indigenous knowledges, connected to experiences from Black, Indigenous and People of Colour communities to create work crucial to an understanding of relational demographics. (TotalProjectCostCAD:74976; MRIFundingCAD:29500; MRI:)
Community Engagement Processes in Entrepreneurial and Social Innovation
Type: Grant
Many of Canada s former resource towns are in a period of transition. The most successful often adaptively reuse the resources still available within the community: built resources as well as skills and cultural resources. This project develops a framework and toolkit of the creative processes in social innovation so that communities can reimagine themselves into vibrant relocalised networks that will create a more sustainable, healthy and reconnected world. In collaboration with ERA Architects program small, the project aims to develop community engagement specific to rural, resource towns in Canada to assist in the transition from resource-dependency to diversified, cultural economies. This project will include a review of best practice internationally and within Canada, to offer tailored, creative solutions for community engagement activities which identify and support the potential for diversified economic opportunities directly linked to the cultural heritage of the community and surrounding region.
Social Lab on Poverty in South India
Type: Grant
Globally, poverty is a continuing problem that is not easily resolved. 650 million people in India live below the poverty line. In the south of India in the rural region around the city of Mysore, half of women are illiterate, and lack equal opportunity of employment. Although research has been done on technological and financial solutions to poverty, a key gap in the research is understanding the social inhibiting patterns (personal and social habits) that limit creative solutions toward change. My research will build off of a ten year established relationship with University of Mysore to advance the work into cutting-edge creative processes towards change that rely on local wisdom. The outcomes will offer rural communities new ideas on how to empower women in income generation, create a toolkit of processes for organizations locally and worldwide to deal with complex social problems like poverty, and advance academic knowledge in creativity, social innovation, and social habits.