Telephone: (204) 953-3851
r.rempel@uwinnipeg.ca
Ruth Rempel teaches IDS courses, as well as courses cross-listed with the CRS program and the department of History at the University of Winnipeg. Ruth taught for several years at a teacher training college in rural Uganda, and has carried out advocacy work related to the debt of African countries and the World Bank.
Courses Taught
- Introduction to International Development Studies
- Do No Harm: Humanitarian Aid and Conflict
- An Analysis of Development Aid Policies
- A History of the Developing World
- A History of Globalization (CMU)
- History of Western Civilization (CMU)
Current Research Interests
- Travel and exploration in late nineteenth century east-central Africa, particularly the condition of porters
- Conceptualizing the use of force as part of economic activity, especially in war economies
- Famines, entitlement (access to food) and the applicability of entitlement theory to late nineteenth century east-central Africa
- Construction of 'plausible narratives' as a means of evaluating advocacy efforts by non-governmental organisations
Academic Publications
"Trade and Transformation: Participation in the Ivory Trade in Late
19th-Century East and Central Africa," Canadian Journal of
Development Studies, vol. 19, no. 3 (1998): 529-52.
Other Publications
"Reflection on the MCC Conference 'Globalization and Development in
South Asia'" (available at http://www.mcc.org/globalizationconsultations/south_asia/rempel.html)
and Report on the Globalization and Development in South Asia
Conference, Kathmandu, 6-8 May 2003 for Mennonite Central Committee
Canada (unpublished).
"African Women and the Economic Crisis," in Mennonite Central Committee's Women's Concerns Report, no. 104 (September-October 1992). Reprinted in Inter-Church Coalition on Africa's Focus Africa (April-June 1993).
"International debt and the crisis of survival," "Sub-Saharan African debt and the structural adjustment debate," and "Mungo Parking," in Mennonite Central Committee's Peace Section Newsletter, vol. 21, no. 4 (July-August 1991).
"Two Poems," Prairie Fire, vol. 11, no. 2 (1990): 76-78.
Editor of Uganda Human Rights Activists, "Violation of Human Rights in Uganda," Know Your Rights, Series 2 (1988).
Community Involvement
Ruth is a participant in the Healthy House Project of West Broadway
Development Corporation, Winnipeg.
