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Ravi de Costa

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Associate Professor of Environmental Studies, York University, Canada

Indigenous politics in Australia and Canada: treaties and comprehensive agreements; reconciliation and apologies; globalization and Indigenous peoples.

Experience

  • 2007–present
    Associate professor, York University
  • 2013–present
    Associate Dean Research, Faculty of Environmental Studies, York University

Education

  • 2002 
    Swinburne University, PhD
  • 1996 
    University of Sydney, BA Honours

Publications

  • 2015
    (With Tom Clark) ‘On the responsibility to engage: non-Indigenous peoples in settler states’, Settler Colonial Studies,
  • 2015
    ‘Review Essay: Recognition and self-determination: Indigenous politics in settler states’, Australian Journal of Political Science (Vol. 50, Issue 1), 174-89.,
  • 2014
    ‘Descent, culture and self-determination: States and the definition of Indigenous peoples’, Aboriginal Policy Studies (Vol 3.3).,
  • 2010
    Indigenous peoples and autonomy: Insights for a global age. Co-edited with Mario Blaser, Deborah McGregor and Will Coleman (Vancouver, UBC Press, 2010).,
  • 2006
    A higher authority: Indigenous transnationalism and Australia. (Sydney, University of New South Wales Press, 2006).,
  • 2006
    ‘Identity, authority and the moral worlds of Indigenous petitions’, Comparative Studies in Society and History Vol. 48 No. 3 (July), 669-98.,

Grants and Contracts

  • 2015
    The non-Indigenous responsibility to engage -- Scoping reconciliation and its alternatives
    Role:
    Chief Investigator
    Funding Source:
    Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada
  • 2014
    Non-Indigenous pathways to reconciliation in Australia
    Role:
    Partner Investigator
    Funding Source:
    Australian Research Council
  • 2012
    Reconciling Canada: non-Aboriginal discourses and the truth and reconciliation commission
    Role:
    Chief Investigator
    Funding Source:
    Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada
  • 2010
    Discourse and obligation: non-Aboriginal peoples and reconciliation in Canada
    Role:
    Chief Investigator
    Funding Source:
    Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada

Professional Memberships

  • International Political Science Association
  • Canadian Political Science Association

Research Areas

  • Political Science (1606)
  • Comparative Government And Politics (160603)
  • Globalisation And Culture (200206)