Timothy MacNeill, PhD
Senior Teaching Professor
Faculty of Social Science and Humanities
Faculty of Social Science and Humanities
Dr. MacNeill’s research focuses on globalization, inequality and sustainable development.
Full biography
Dr. Timothy MacNeill’s research focuses on globalization, inequality and sustainable development. This involves three major streams of investigation. First, he measures the impacts that international investment flows and corporate practices have on marginalized, typically Indigenous, communities and ecosystems in developing countries. His second stream of research explores the ways in which economic, political, cultural and social systems may be re-imagined and asserted via indigenous and other social movements to yield environmental sustainability and social equity. Third is research on the ways in which economic, social, cultural and political institutions impact human behaviour.
Areas of expertise
Courses
- SOCI 1000UIntroductory SociologySociology is the study of people and how they interact with each other and various social groups. This course deals with the study of people’s lives, their relationship to society as a whole, and how people are affected by the society in which they live. The concepts, theories and methods of the discipline will be introduced and discussed with particular emphasis on the dynamics of Canadian society and Canadian social problems.
- SSCI 1300USocial ProblemsThis course introduces students to the analysis of social and political problems using different theories, concepts and methods. These theories and the way in which people approach political and social problems are often based upon a particular view of the concept of justice and equality. We examine different social and political issues and show how they interact with both theory and practice in dealing with these conceptions of justice and equality. The course looks critically at gender, race, class and age among other barriers to achievement.
- POSC 3101UInequality and DevelopmentStudents taking this course will learn to analyze community development through the lens of difference. In this course, students will learn perspectives of development that take into account the lives and achievements of diverse peoples. The course content seeks to highlight both the inequitable (and unequal) distribution of power and control over development as well as the inequitable distribution over who is entitled to and who receives developmental assistance. The role of oppressive political practices such as colonization and globalization will be featured.
- POSC 3302UEnvironment and GlobalizationStudents taking this course will learn about the effects of globalization on the environment. Specifically, this course is designed to highlight the effects of transnational corporations, and mass migration on differing ecosystems. The course content provides students with a chance to learn differing perspectives and perspectives on the relationship between globalization and the health of the planet.
Education
- PhD - Communication and CultureYork University, Toronto, Ontario
- MDEDalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia
Speaking Engagements
- University of Waterloo (Waterloo, Ontario) July 9, 2017Food Sovereignty in a Captured State: Materialities and Identities of Resistance in Honduras. Food: Locally Engaged, Globally Embedded.Annual Social Science and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Partnership Grant research working group.
- Ryerson University (Toronto, Ontario) January 6, 2017Altruism, Ethnicity, and Community Development: Results of Field Experiments in Four Honduran Barrios.Canadian Sociological Association
- Ryerson University (Toronto, Ontario) December 31, 1969Economic Sociology of Racial Discrimination in Labour Markets: An Experimental Approach.Canadian Sociological Association
- Ryerson University (Toronto, Ontario) February 6, 2017Ethical Dilemmas in International Development FieldworkCanadian Sociological Association
- Buenos Aires, Argentina January 2, 2017Sustainable Development and Indigenous Rights in Latin AmericaLatin American Forum for Environmental Sciences
- January 6, 2016Development or Marginalization?: The Economic, Social, and Environmental Impacts of Canadian Foreign Investment in Caribbean HondurasCanadian Sociological Association
- Wilfred Laurier University (Waterloo, Ontario) January 9, 2015Sustainable Food Systems Working Group
- May 6, 2015Pueblo of the Porn King: Canadian Imperialism in Afro-Indigenous HondurasCanadian Sociological Association
- January 5, 2013Culturally Sustainable Development: Maya Culture and Policy from the EdgeCanadian Association for the Study of International Development
- January 5, 2013Radical Discursive Intervention: Maya Cosmovision, Transmodernity, and DevelopmentCanadian Communication Association