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Kalowatie Deonandan Ph.D.

Professor

Graduate Supervisor in Political Studies
Faculty Member in Political Studies

Office
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Research Area(s)

  • Democracy, Mining and Development in Latin America and the Caribbean
  • Women and Mining Development
  • Indigenous Women and the Mining Industry
  • Oil Extraction and Development in Guyana
  • Canadian foreign policy

Publications

Grants Information

  • R. Srinivasan (PI) and Kalowatie Deonandan (Co-I). "ASII Project Development." Shastri-Indo Canadian Institute. 2024-25 , $107,000.
  • Lorne Elias (PI), Kalowatie Deonandan (Co-I), Kirsten Fisher(Co-I),  Simonne Horowitz (Co-I),, Carla Orosz(Co-I),  Raj Srinivasan (Co-I), and Lavina Watts (Co-I). “Where  History Meets the Future: Giving our Students the World by Giving the World to Our Students.”   Global Skills Opportunity  Grant, Government of Canada, 2021-2025,  $500,000
  • Kalowatie Deonandan (PI), “Women, Resistance and Mining in Guatemala.” SSHRC Insight Development Grant, 2016-18. Extended to 2023. $75,000
  • Raywat Deonandan (PI) and Kalowatie Deonandan (Co-Applicant),  “Mining the Gap: Aboriginal Women and the Mining Industry.” SSHRC Knowledge Synthesis Grant, 2014-15. $25,000
  • Kalowatie Deonandan (PI), Maureen Bourassa, Loleen Berdahl and Scott Bell, “ Establishing Social License: Women, Respect, and Stakeholder Engagement in the Nuclear Sector,” Sylvia Fedoruk Canadian Centre for Nuclear Innovation, 2015-2017. $150,000


 Publications

Kalowatie Deonandan, Jacqueline Schoenfeld, Areeb Salim and Maureen Bourassa. 2024 . "Social License to Operate (SLO): Private Governance and Barriers to Community Engagement." Extractive Industries and Society Vol. 17, March 2024.  


Kalowatie Deonandan and Toveli Schmuland. 2022. "Trudeau, Harper and Civil Society: Advocacy Chill or Sunny Ways?   In  Canada's Past and Future in Latin America.  Pablo Heidrich and Laura Macdonald, eds. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.

Ege Tekinbas and Kalowatie Deonandan. 2021. "Gender in Mining Governance: Opportunities for Policy Makers." (International Institute for Sustainable Development -IISD/ Intergovernmental Forum on Mining--IGF).

Kalowatie Deonandan and Ege Tekinbas.2020."Gender in Mining Governance: An Annotated  Bibliography for Large Scale Mining."  International Institute for Sustainable Development --IISD/Intergovernmental Forum on Mining --IGF)  


Kalowatie Deonandan and Colleen Bell. 2019. "Discipline and Punish: Gendered Dimensions of Violence in Extractive Development." Canadian Journal of Women and the Law/ Revue Femme et Droit.   Vol 31(1).

Kalowatie Deonandan and Rebecca Tatham. 2018. “Transnational and Local Solidarities in the Struggle for Justice: Choc vs. Padilla.” In Human and Environmental Justice in  Guatemala. Stephen Henighan and  Candace Johnson, eds., Toronto: University of Toronto Press.  

Kalowatie Deonandan, Rebecca Tatham, and Brennan Field. 2017. “Indigenous Women’s Anti-Mining Activism: A Gendered Analysis of the El Estor Struggle in Guatemala.” Gender and Development Vol. 25(3). http://www.genderanddevelopment.org/issues/25-3-natural-resource-justice

Kalowatie Deonandan and Michael Dougherty, eds.  2016. Mining in Latin America:  Critical Reflections on the New Extraction. London: Routledge.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      
Kalowatie Deonandan and Jennifer Morgan. 2016.“The Privatization of Human Rights: The Human Rights Impact Assessment at Goldcorp’s Marlin Mine in Guatemala.” In Mining in Latin America:  Critical Reflections on the New Extraction, in Kalowatie Deonandan and Michael Dougherty  eds. 
          London: Routledge.
 
Kalowatie Deonandan and Rebecca Tatham. 2016.   "The Role of Women and International Non-Governmental Organizations in the Resistance to the New Extraction in Latin America: The Unexplored Dimensions."  In Mining in Latin America:  Critical Reflections on the New Extraction, 
         in Kalowatie Deonandan and Michael Dougherty  eds. London: Routledge
 
Kalowatie Deonandan and Paola Ortiz.. 2016. "Mining, Taxes and Development: The State and the Marlin Mine."  Latin American Policy, 7(2): 288-320. 

Raywat Deonandan, Kalowatie Deonandan and Brennan Fields. 2016.  Mining the Gap: Aboriginal Women and the Mining Industry. SSHRC Knowledge Synthesis Report.  http://www.ideas-idees.ca/sites/default/files/sites/default/uploads/general/2016/2016_sshrc-ksg-deonandan_raywat.pdf

 Kalowatie Deonandan.  2015.  "Evaluating the Effectiveness of the Anti-Mining Movement in Guatemala:The Role of  Political Opportunities and Message Framing,"  Canadian Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies." Vol. 40, No.1.
 
Kalowatie Deonandan. 2014.  "Why Democracy and the Free Market are Good for Caudillos: The Nicaraguan Case." In Re-Mapping of the Americas, eds., Julian Rea Castro, Andy Knightand  Hamid Ghani. Aldershot, U.K: Ashgate Publishing.
 
Kalowatie Deonandan. 2013. "The Emerging Economies and Caribbean Economic Development: The Case  of Guyana?s Megaprojects." In The Contemporary Caribbean: Issues and Challenges, eds. Raymond Izarali and Priti Singh. New Delhi: Shipra Publications.
 
Kalowatie Deonandan. David Close and Gary Prevost, eds.  2007.  Revolutionary Movements to Political Parties: Case Studies from Latin America and Africa . New York: Palgrave.http://www.palgrave.com/us/book/9781403980106
 
Kalowatie  Deonandan. 2007. "Guyana's PPP: From Socialism to National Democracy." In  Revolutionary Movements to Political Parties: Case Studies from  Latin America  and Africa.  Kalowatie Deonandan, David Close and Gary Prevost, eds. New York: Palgrave.
 
Kalowatie  Deonandan. 2007. "Revolutionaries to Politicians: Can the Transition Succeed?"  In  Revolutionary Movements to Political Parties: Case Studies from Latin America and Africa.  Kalowatie Deonandan, David Close and Gary Prevost, eds.. New York: Palgrave.
 
Kalowatie  Deonandan. 2006. "Re-Interpreting Canada's Response to the Helms-Burton Legislation."  In Convergence and Divergence in North America:  Canada and the United States.  Karl Froschauer,Nadine Fabbi and Susan Pell, eds. Vancouver, B.C.: Centre for Canadian Studies, Simon   Fraser University.
 
Kalowatie. Deonandan. 2005. "The Helms Burton Bill and Canada's Cuba Policy Convergences with the US," Policy and Society, Volume 24, No. 1,  Fall.
 
David Close and  Kalowatie Deonandan, eds. 2004.  Undoing Democracy: The Politics of  Electoral Caudillismo in Nicaragua .  Englewood, Co.: Lexington Books..
 
Kalowatie Deonandan. 2004. "The Assault on Pluralism."  In Undoing Democracy: The Politics of Electoral Caudillismo  in Nicaragua. David Close and Kalowatie Deonandan, eds. Englewood, Co.:   Lexington Books.
 
Kalowatie Deonandan. 2004. "The Caudillo is Dead!  Long Live the Caudillo!" In Undoing Democracy: The Politics of Electoral Caudillismo in Nicaragua. David Close and Kalowatie Deonandan eds.  Englewood, Co.:  Lexington Books.
 
Kalowatie Deonandan. 2003. "Guyana." In Contemporary Women's Issues Worldwide: Central and South America. Amy Lind, ed. Englewood,Co.: Greenwood Publishing.
 
Kalowatie Deonandan. 2001. "The Lost Mission of Nicaragua's 'Popular Church,'" Peace Review Vol.13, 3,  September.


Invited Presentations:

Kalowatie Deonandan. 2023. “Guyana: Challenges for a Newly Emerging Oil Rich State.” Invited Presentation delivered at the International Conference on Perspectives on Energy Politics in the Americas, Centre for Canadian, U.S. and Latin American Studies, School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru                                 University, New Delhi, India.  July 5.

Kalowatie Deonandan. 2023. “Extractivism and Violence.”  Invited Presentation delivered in the Dattel Speaker Series, Faculty of Law, University of Western Ontario, March 17.

Kalowatie Deonandan. 2023. The Gendered Dimensions of Violence in Extractive Development."  Invited Presentation delivered at the Research Network on Women, Peace, and Security (RN-WPS) Second Annual Symposium, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, March 8-9,. 

Kalowatie Deonandan. 2020. "A Rocky Relationship: Trudeau and the Progressive NGO Community." Invited Presentation delivered at the School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), Delhi, India,  March 2.

Kalowatie Deonandan. 2019. “Gender and  Social License to Operate in Mining Development.”  Invited Presentation delivered in  the Mining and Finance Speaker Series, Faculty of Law, University of Western Ontario. Dec. 13.

Kalowatie Deonandan. 2018. "Extractive Development in Latin America: Gender, Resistance and State Control."  Invited Escola de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, University of Lisbon, June 5. 

Kalowatie Deonandan. 2018.  “Large Scale Resource Development in the Global South and its Gendered Implications.” Invited Presentation delivered at Bhagini Nivedita College,  University of Delhi, Delhi, India, February 22.

Kalowatie Deonandan. 2018. “Challenges to Development within a Neoliberal Globalization Framework.” Invited Presentation delivered at PGDAV College, University of Delhi, Delhi,  India, February 21.

Kalowatie Deonandan. 2017. “Resource Development and its Impacts on and Implications for Women and Culture in Vulnerable Contexts, “Invited paper presented at the Conference on Resource Extraction and the Rights of Women and Girls, University of Ottawa, Ottawa Ontario, October 26-27..

Kalowatie Deonandan. 2017. “NGO’s and Anti-Mining Struggles.”  Invited Presentation delivered at the Workshop on Canada’s Past and Future in the Americas, sponsored by Carleton University, Government of Canada, IDRC and the Canadian International Council, Carleton University, March 27 and 28..

 Kalowatie Deonandan. 2017. “Indigenous Women’s Anti-Mining Activism: A Gendered Analysis of the El Estor Struggle in Guatemala.”  Invited Presentation delivered at Oxfam’s workshop on  Gender Justice & the Extractive Industries: Setting the Change Agenda, Whittemore House, Washington, D.C, Mar 23. 

Kalowatie Deonandan. 2015.  “Evaluating the Effectiveness of Anti-Mining Movements: A Comparison of Marlin and La Puya.” Invited  Presentation delivered at the Taller de Investigacion y Debate: Mineria Canadiense en America Latina, sponsored by Carleton University and la Pontifica Universidad Catolica del                                                  Peru,  Lima, Peru, October 26-27.

Kalowatie Deonandan.2013.  “The Governance of Natural Resource Extraction and Multilevel Federalism: Implications for Resource Communities in Canada.” Invited  Presentation delivered at the Centre for Multilevel Federalism, Institute of Social Sciences, Delhi, India, March 19.

Kalowatie Deonandan. 2013. "Neoliberal Development, Megaprojects and Community Resistance in Latin America." Invited Presentation delivered at the Centre for Canadian, US and Latin American Studies, Jewaharlal Nehru University (JNU), Delhi, India, March 18.

Kalowatie Deonandan. 2013. “Confronting Neoliberal Development in a “Democratic” Guatemala,  Invited Presentation to the Humanities and Social Sciences Faculty, Indian Institute of Technology, Gandhinagar (IITGN), Ahmedabad Gujarat, March 5.

Kalowatie Deonandan. 2012. “India’s Search for Resources in Latin America and the Caribbean.” Invited Presentation delivered to the Conference on Engaging India: Human and Social Dimensions of Science and Technology, Sponsored by the Shastri Indo-Canadian Institute, University of Calgary, 
                                                 Calgary, Alberta, June 3-4.

Kalowatie Deonandan. 2009.  “Community Resistance and Guatemala’s Extractive Sector Development: Prospects and Challenges.” Invited Presentation at the Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (Extractive Industry Research Project), York University, May 20.

Kalowatie Deonandan.  2009. "Development and the Extractive Industry in Guatemala: The Canadian Dimension." Invited Presentation at the Universidad Rafael Landivar, Guatemala City, Guatemala, March.

Kalowatie Deonandan. 2009.  “Canadian Foreign Policy and Gold Mining in Latin America: The Case of Guatemala.” Invited Paper presented at the Conference on Canada and the Americas: Defining Re-Engagement, sponsored by the Canadian Foreign Policy Journal, the Canadian Foundation for the Americas
                                                 (FOCAL), the Centre for Trade Policy Law (Carleton University/University of Ottawa), and the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT), Ottawa, March.

Kalowatie Deonandan.  2005. “The Re-Mapping of the Americas and the Corruption Pandemic: The Case of Nicaragua.” Invited Paper presented at the Conference on Re-mapping of the Americas: Globalisation, Regionalisation and the FTAA, University of the West Indies, St.
                                                 Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago, October 19-21.


Selected Conference Presentations

Kalowatie Deonandan. 2024.  "Harnessing Pandemic Opportunities to Discipline Resistance." Paper Presented at the Latin American Studies Association Conference (LASA),  Bogota Colombia, June 12-15.

Kalowatie Deonandan. 2024.  "The Covid-19 Pandemic and Opportunities for Regulating Anti-Mining Resistance." Paper Presented at the Caribbean Studies Association Conference (CSA),  St. Lucia, June 3-7.

Kalowatie Deonandan. 2023. "The Challenges of Guyana's Oil Find." Paper Presented at the Caribbean Studies Association Conference (CSA),  St. Croix, US Virgin Islands, June 5-9.

Kalowatie Deonandan. 2022.. “Political Solidarity, Resistance and El Salvador’s Mining Ban.”  Paper presented at the Congress of  the Latin American Studies Association (LASA), , San Francisco, USA., May  5–8.

Kalowatie Deonandan. 2021. “Social License to Operate: In Whose Interest?”  Paper presented at the Conference of  the Latin American Studies  Association  (LASA)  Vancouver, Canada, May 26-29, 2021.  (Virtual Conference)

Kalowatie Deonandan. 2019.  “The Role of NGOs in Canadian Foreign Policy on Extractive Industry Promotion in Latin America:  From Harper to Trudeau.” Paper presented at the Congress of of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA), Boston,  Mass. USA May 24 –27,  2019.

Kalowatie Deonandan. 2019. “The Violence Within Resource Communities.” Paper presented at the Congress of the Canadian Association of Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CALACS), York University, Toronto, Ontario, May 10-12.

Kalowatie Deonandan and Colleen Bell. 2019, “The Disciplining of  Dissent in the Resource Sector and its Gendered Impacts.” Presentation delivered at the Roundtable on “Repressive Environments, Extractive Policing, Corporate Counterinsurgency, and Intercultural Resistance,”  International Studies                                                               Association Conference (ISA), Toronto, Ontario, Canada,  March 27 - 30. 

Kalowatie Deonandan. 2018.  “ Dissecting Claims Regarding ‘Social License to Operate’ in the Resource Sector.”  Presentation delivered at the Prairie Political Science Association, Banff Centre, Banff, Alberta, September  14-18. 

Kalowatie Deonandan and Colleen Bell. 2018. “Extraction, Disciplining Dissent and Gender.”  Presentation delivered (by K.Deonandan) to the pre-conference of the  Canadian Women and Geography (CWAG) specialty group of the Canadian Association of Geographers (CAG) and the International                                                                    Geographical Union (IGU)  Commission on Gender and Geography,  University of Montréal, Montréal, Québec, Canada, August 4-6, 2018.

 Kalowatie Deonandan. 2018. “Understanding Female Leadership in Anti-Mining Struggles in Latin  America.”  Paper presented at the XXXV Congress of the Latin American Studies Association  (LASA)  Barcelona, Spain, June 22-28. 

Kalowatie Deonandan. 2017. “ Leadership in Social Movements against Large Scale Mining .” Paper Presented and the American Association of Canadian Studies (ACSUS)  Biennial  Conference, Tuscany Hotel, Las Vegas, USA October 18-22, 2017.

Kalowatie Deonandan. 2017.  “ The Impacts of the Involvement of International Civil Society Groups in  Anti-mining Struggles in Latin America.” Presentation delivered at the Prairie Political Science Association, Banff Centre, Banff, Alberta, September  16-17, 2017.

Kalowatie Deonandan. 2017.  “NGOs and Anti-Mining Struggles: The ‘Unintended Consequences’ of Transnational Alliances in Mining Struggles in Guatemala.” Paper presented at  Congress of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA), Lima, Peru, April 29-May 1.           

Kalowatie Deonandan. 2016.  “Democratic Leadership in Anti-Mining Struggles:  Guatemala’s La Puya Resistance .”  Paper presented at the Canadian Association of Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CALACS), Conference, Calgary, Alberta, May 31-June.        

Kalowatie Deonandan. 2015. Corporate Social Responsibility and Neoliberalization: The Effectiveness of the Human Rights Impact Assessment Mechanism in the Extractive  Sector in Guatemala.” Paper presented at the 23rd Biennial Conference of  the  Association for Canadian Studies in the                                                                              United States (ACSUS), Las Vegas, Nevada,  October 14-17 .

Kalowatie Deonandan. 2014. “Supporting Mining Investments in Latin America: The Imperial Turn in Canadian Foreign Policy?  Paper presented at  International Studies Association   (ISA)—Latin American Faculty of Social  Sciences (FLACSO), Joint Conference,  University of Buenos Aires,                                                                             Buenos Aires, Argentina, July 23-25..

Kalowatie Deonandan and Paola Ortiz Loaiza. 2014. "Guatemala’s Marlin Mine: Development For Whom?” Paper  presented at  International Studies Association (ISA)—Latin American  Faculty of Social Sciences (FLACSO), Joint Conference,   University of Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina, July 23-25

    

Teaching & Supervision

Current Supervision

Oyuntuya  Shagdarsuren


Completed MA Candidates

Sarah Sumalave (MA 2024)

Nana Yaa Boapeah (MA 2023)

Mariana Rosa da Martins (MA 2019)

Nafisa Adomaa Twumwaa (MA-2019)

Jacqueline Schoenfeld (MA-2017)

Isaac Adisah-Atta (MA-2017)

Samuel Akeampong (MA-2017)

Martin Kakra-Kouame (MA-2017)

Rebecca Tatham (MA-2016)

Dakoda Trithara (MA-2016) 

Craig Atkinson (MA-2016)

Jennifer Morgan (MA-2016)

Ali Kiani (MA-2016)

Maria Flores (ELAP Candidate, Mexico, MA-2016)

Nelson Roque Valdes (MA 2015)

Heather Jordan (MA-2014) (Thesis received the Timlin Award)

Fahimeh Behrang (MA-2012)

Lee Todd (MA -2011)

Stacie Beeer (MA-2010)

L. Veitch (MA-2009) 

Jasmine Calix (MA-2008)


Current Courses

Comparative Politics 849.3

Ethics and Global Politics 460.3

Political Studies 110.3


Research

Latin America development foreign policy human rights indigenous mining nuclear politics resource development women

Education & Training

·   Ph.D.  Queen's University, Department of Political Studies
·   M.A.   York University, Department of Political Science
·   B.A.    Glendon College, York University, Department of Political Science

Awards & Honours

  • Senior Research Fellow, awarded by Green Institute, University of Guyana GUY November 2023
  • Visiting Scholar, awarded by The Centre for Canadian, US & Latin American Studies (CCUS&LAS), Jawaharlal Nehrul University IND January 2020-April 2020
  • YWCA Woman of Distinction (Research and Technology), awarded by YWCA May 2019
  • J.W. George Ivany Award for Internationalization, awarded by University of Saskatchewan October 2014
  • Visiting Professor, awarded by Delhi University IND April 2013-April 2013
  • Scholar-in-Residence, awarded by Indian Institute of Technology, Gandhinagar (IITGN) IND February 2013-March 2013
  • Provost's Award for Excellence in International Teaching, awarded by University of Saskatchewan May 2012
  • Associate Fellow, awarded by Centre for Research on Latin America and The Caribbean July 2009

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