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Areas of interest

Am Johal is director of community engagement at ¶¡ÏãÔ°AV’s Vancity Office of Community Engagement, within the ¶¡ÏãÔ°AV Woodward’s 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’s 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 ¶¡ÏãÔ°AV’s Vancity Office of Community Engagement and co-Director of ¶¡ÏãÔ°AV'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.