
Am Johal
Areas of interest
Am Johal is director of community engagement at SFU’s Vancity Office of Community Engagement, within the SFU 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 SFU’s Vancity Office of Community Engagement and co-Director of SFU'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.
Courses
This instructor is currently not teaching any courses.