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• Vanmala Hiranandani is Assistant Professor at the School of Social Work, Dalhousie University in Halifax, Canada. She worked for several years in India as a medical social worker and on community-based research projects concerning health promotion,..

  Vanmala Hiranandani is Assistant Professor at the School of Social Work, Dalhousie University in Halifax, Canada. She worked for several years in India as a medical social worker and on community-based research projects concerning health promotion, women’s rights, production of educational multi-media for social change, and displacement of marginalized groups from traditional sources of livelihood as a result of Eurocentric development approaches. Her research interests revolve around Gandhian thought, health consequences of neo-liberal globalization, alternative approaches to development, anti-imperialism struggles, critical race theory, and research that empowers resistance. Her latest research is on the impact of agricultural trade liberalization policies on food security and the growth of food security as a global social movement. Less

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