Rosalind
Boyd, is currently an independent researcher based at McGill University,
Montreal, Quebec, Canada which
she
has been affiliated since 1968.She was previously Director of McGills Centre
for Developing-Area Studies. Prior to
that,
she was the Senior Researcher at CDAS (1988-1996) and Editor of the Publications
Program. For over three decades,
she
has carried out research activities focusing on social, political and economic
problems in countries of Africa, Asia,
Latin
America, the Caribbean and the Middle East. She is the founding Editor
of the international journal, Labour, Capital
and
Society (1979-2004; www.lcs-tcs.com) devoted to critical analyses of development
issues and the labouring poor in
the
Third World. She has also edited over two dozen books dealing with socio-economic
and political problems, most
recently
Struggles in the Americas: The Emergence of a New Civil Society (2003)
co-edited with S.J. Noumoff; Social
Sciences
and Transdisciplinarity: Latin American and Canadian Experiences (1999)
co-edited with Alberto Florez-Malagon
and
the seminal work International Labour and the Third World: The Making of
a New Working Class co-edited with Robin
Cohen
and Peter C.W. Gutkind (1987).
Dr
Boyd's research interests include gender and democratic development, focusing
on the inclusion of women in the transition
from
oppositional struggle to management and/or transformation of the state,
with recent research in Uganda, Rwanda,
El
Salvador, Indonesia and South Africa. Her other research activities cover
critical studies of economic globalization, human
security,
women workers, child labour, informal sector, refugees, environmental management,
labour migration, human rights,
knowledge
systems and resistance literature.
Dr
Boyd was also the Director/Principal Investigator of the innovative research
program "Gender and Human Security Issues"
previously
based at the CDAS in cooperation with the Women's Centre of Montreal and
several other organizations, funded by
the
Social Sciences and Humanities Council of Canada (SSHRC) under their program
of Community-University Research Alliance
(CURA).
This research-action program (2000-2005) built on her earlier work with
women in conflict situations in Uganda, Sri Lanka
and
El Salvador and involved a team of researchers from universities and communities
in an alliance locally and globally in order
to
examine different issues related to women and armed conflict, the aftermath
of war for societies, human rights, peacebuilding,
political
reconciliation and trauma.