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Terisa Turner
Biography:
Terisa E. Turner is associate professor of Sociology and Anthropology at the University of Guelph in Ontario, Canada. She obtained her B.A. from the University of York in the U.K., her M.A. from Oberlin College in the U.S., and her Ph.D. from the London School of Economics and Political Science (1977). She is a co-founder of First Woman: The East and Southern African Women’s Oral History and Indigenous Knowledge Network. First Woman’s central activity is the recording of the life stories of elderly Mau Mau women in Kenya.
Terisa Turner is co-director of the International Oil Working Group, a non-governmental organization registered at the United Nations in New York. With the International Oil Working Group, she assisted in enforcing the United Nations oil embargo against the apartheid regime in South Africa (1978-1990).
She has worked for universities, United Nations agencies, liberation organizations, unions and non-governmental organizations in Europe, the U.S.A., West and East Africa, the Middle East, Central and South America and the Caribbean.
In the early 2000s, Terisa Turner participated in a Costa Rican community-based coalition which worked successfully to make that country the world’s first no-go zone for petroleum exploration and production. In 2005 she completed a study on petrochemicals for Alberta, Canada’s Parkland Institute. She continues to engage in participatory action research with women in Kenya and with oil host communities in Nigeria’s oil belt, while teaching courses in gender, political economy and development.
Lecture Topics:
International Political Economy and Development
Oil Embargos
Petroleum Exploration and Production
Participatory Action Research
Resource Conflict
Gender and the Environment
Recent Publications:
Arise Ye Mighty People! Gender, Class and Race in Popular Struggles (1994)
Oil and Class Struggle (1980)
In 2001 she co-edited with Leigh S. Brownhill, a special issue of the Canadian Journal of Development Studies on Gender, Feminism and the Civil Commons
She has written more than 100 articles on petroleum, resource conflict, international political economy, gender and the environment.
Contact Information:
Terisa E. Turner
Associate Professor of Sociology & Anthropology
University of Guelph
Guelph, ON N1G2W1
Tel: (519) 787-0609
Fax: (519) 787-9332
Web: www.uoguelph.ca/~terisatu