
Am Johal
Areas of interest
Am Johal is director of community engagement at SFU鈥檚 Vancity Office of Community Engagement, within the 51社区黑料Woodward鈥檚 Cultural Unit.
Previously, Johal worked on the Vancouver Agreement, a collective effort to address urban economic and social development. He was a co-founder of UBC鈥檚 Humanities 101 program and chair of the Impact on Communities Coalition. He has also been an advisor to two provincial cabinet ministers (Transportation and Highways; Community Development, Cooperatives and Volunteers).
Education
- Undergraduate degrees in human kinetics (UBC) and commerce (Royal Roads University)
- MA in international economic relations from the Institute for Social and European Studies (Hungary)
- PhD in communication and media philosophy from the European Graduate School (Switzerland)
Biography
Am Johal is Director of SFU鈥檚 Vancity Office of Community Engagement and co-Director of SFU's Community Engaged Research Initiative. He is author of Ecological Metapolitics: Badiou and the Anthropocene (2015), co-author with Matt Hern of Global Warming and the Sweetness of Life: A Tar Sands Tale (2018), and O My Friends, There is No Friend: The Politics of Friendship at the End of Ecology (2024). He is Chairperson of the Vancouver International Film Festival, a board member with the BC Alliance for Arts and Culture and Vice-Chair of Greenpeace Canada.
Courses
This instructor is currently not teaching any courses.