Harris Ford PhD Candidate
Supervisor: Dr. Maurice Jr. LabelleThis dissertation examines how the Inter Press Service (IPS) became an international ally of Third Worldist nations during the high age of decolonization. The non-profit cooperative of journalists joined transnational efforts challenging international communications structures and, in turn, facilitated the free flow of marginalized perspectives into the global media system. With Third World movements in Africa, Latin America, the Middle East, and Asia, IPS played an important role in the decolonization of information and the democratization of world news. Ultimately, my doctoral project aims to unearth how IPS helped expand a planetary Third World imagination in the 1970s and 1980s.
Research Area(s)
- Decolonization
- Third Worldism
- United Nations history
- Internationalization
- Arab-West relations
- Settler Colonialism
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Publications:
Louise Racine, Harris Ford, Letitia Johnson, and Susan Fowler-Kerry. "An Integrative Review of Indigenous Informal Caregiving in the Context of Dementia Care," Journal of Advanced Nursing Vol. 78, No. 4 (2022): 895-917.
Harris Ford. "'I Won't Say I Wanted the Job': The United Nations' Search for a Special Municipal Commissioner in Jerusalem, 1948-1949." Jerusalem Quarterly No. 92 (2022): 12-33.
Conference Presentations:
Harris Ford. “Integration Before Isolation: Saskatoon’s Chinese Population in the Early 1900s.” Western Canadian History Conference, Wanuskewin, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. September 14, 2024
Harris Ford. “Decolonizing News Globally: Inter Press Service and the Third World, 1972-1985.” The Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations Conference, Toronto, Ontario. June 14, 2024
Harris Ford: “‘We Have to Take Care of What We Have’: Skowkale, Hatcheries, and the Processes of Grappling with the Future Among the Stó:lō.” BC Studies Conference, University of the Fraser Valley, Abbottsford, British Columbia. May, 2021. (virtual)
Benjamin Hoy and Harris Ford. "Prison of the Prairies." Difficult Histories Conference. University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario. May, 2022.