Meenal shares that she was born in India into a privileged caste system. She said she moved to South Africa upon marrying her husband and then to Canada years later. She notes the importance of being introspective, learning, and unlearning. Here is her incredible creative work: https://meenalshrivastava.wordpress.com/
Dr. Meenal Shrivastava is Associate Dean of Graduate Studies and Professor of Political Economy and Global Studies at Athabasca University, Canada. Her academic research examines the drivers and manifestations of globalization, and their impact on the institutions and practices of democracy, particularly in the context of the widening gulf between the peoples and the states. Consequently, her publications, courses, and public lectures cover themes related to varied aspects of democracy and public policy through the lenses of global history and gender studies, connected to the central thread of the political economy of our relentlessly globalizing world. Her research on these political economic processes has so far led to more than one hundred and fifty papers and publications, including three books. Currently, aside from serving on several professional and editorial boards, she has been learning to use creative relational stories as a methodology of research and dissemination to illustrate how individual lives intersect with broad social-political trends, and why it matters. Born in Jaipur, she now lives as an uninvited immigrant settler in the ancestral home of the Wsáneć Peoples in the unceded Coast Salish Territories, or what is also known as greater Victoria, BC.
https://meenalshrivastava.wordpress.com/
