Going to Tashbulaq to visit the Kyrgyz
Dr. Kassam conducts applied research that has immediate impact and is relevant for communities. His research interests include:
- Indigenous and local ecological knowledge
- Human ecology
- Biocultural diversity
- Pluralism
- Ways of knowing
- Food sovereignty and security
- Participatory action research
- Climate change impacts and adaptation
- Natural resource policy and management
- International development studies
- Indigenous land and marine use
- Gender analysis
- Arctic social science
- Social history of Muslim societies
- Social change in indigenous communities
- Community economic development