Publications
Forthcoming
- Kassam, Karim-Aly. Bio-Cultural Diversity and Indigenous Ways of Knowing: Re-framing Human Ecology in the Arctic and Sub-Arctic.
- Kassam, Karim-Aly (Editor)Understanding Terror: Canadian Perspectives
Books
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Kassam, Karim-Aly, George Melnyk, and Lynne Perras (editors). 2002. Canada and September 11th: Impact and Responses. Calgary: Detselig. |
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Kassam, Karim-Aly and the Soaring Eagle Friendship Centre. 2001. So That Our Voices Are Heard: Forest Use and Changing Gender Roles of Dene Women in Hay River, Northwest Territories. Calgary: CIDA - Shastri Partnership Programme. |
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Kassam, Karim-Aly and the Wainwright Traditional Council. 2001. Passing on the Knowledge: Mapping Human Ecology in Wainwright, Alaska. Calgary: Arctic Institute of North America. |
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Robinson, Michael and Karim-Aly Kassam. 1998. Sami Potatoes: Living with Reindeer and Perestroika. Calgary: Bayeux Arts. (Translated and published in Russian 2000) |
Articles and Book Chapters
Kassam, Karim-Aly. 2008. Diversity as if Nature and Culture Matter: Biocultural Diversity and Indigenous Peoples. International Journal of Diversity in Organizations, Communities and Nations, 8(2): 87-95. View Publication (.pdf)
Kassam, Karim-Aly. 2007. “Fière: Effective Practices in Self-Help Institutions” My Society, 1(1): 17-38.
Kassam, Karim-Aly. 2005. "Human Ecology." Encyclopaedia of the Arctic (3 Volumes). Ed. Mark Nuttal. New York: Routledge. 892-896.
Kassam, Karim-Aly. 2005. "Hunting, Subsistence." Encyclopaedia of the Arctic (3 Volumes). Ed. Mark Nuttal. New York: Routledge. 899-902.
Kassam, Karim-Aly. 2005. "Muslim Presence in Alberta: Contibutions and Challenges." In Chinook Country Remembered. Calgary: Chinook (Alberta) Historical Society. 183-195. View Publication (.pdf)
Kassam, Karim-Aly and Wisdom Tettey. 2003. "Academics as Citizens - Collaborative Interdisciplinary Research in the Service of Communities." Canadian Journal of Development Studies, 24(1): 155-174. View Publication (.pdf)
Kassam, Karim-Aly. "On Being a Canadian Muslim Post September 11th" In Kassam, Karim-Aly, George Melnyk, and Lynne Perras (editors). 2002. Canada and September 11th: Impact and Responses. Calgary: Detselig. 185-193.
Kassam, Karim-Aly. 2001. "Life North of 60°: Homeland or Frontier?" In Passion for Identity: Canadian Studies for the 21st Century. Scarborough: Nelson Thompson Learning. 433-455.
Kassam, Karim-Aly and Sean Maher 2000. "Indigenous, Cartesian and Cartographic: Visual Metaphors of Knowledge in Arctic (Tundra) and Sub-Arctic (Taiga) Communities." In Links Between Cultures and Biodiversity. Kunming (China): Yunnan Science and Technology Press. 785-811.
Kassam, Karim-Aly and John Graham. 1999. "Indigenous Knowledge, Community Participation and Traditional Land-Use Mapping ." In Delaney, R., Brownlee, K., & Sellick, M. (Eds.), Social Work with Rural and Northern Communities. Thunder Bay: Centre for Northern Studies, Lakehead University. 95-219. View Publication (.pdf)
Kassam, Karim-Aly. 1998. "The Idea of Progress in Modern Muslim Thought: The Views of 'Abduh and Iqbal on Reason And Tradition." In Islamica, 2(4):. 45-49.
Kassam, Karim-Aly. 1997. "Gender Analysis: Its Strengths and Weaknesses, and Requisite Skills for Effective Gender Planning." In Social Development Issues, 19(2/3): 189-202.
Kassam, Karim-Aly and Wanda Wuttunee. 1997. "Development and the Changing Gender Roles of Gwich'in Women." In D. Poff and T. Fletcher (Eds.), Northern Futures. Selected Proceedings of the Conference of the Canadian Research Institute for the Advancement of Women. Prince George: University of Northern British Columbia. 52-69. View Publication (.pdf)
Kassam, Karim-Aly. 1993-94. "Integration of Islam in Young Ottoman Thought." Part I in Islamica, 1(3) August 1993: 10-14. Part II in Islamica, 1(4) January 1994: 15-21.
Introduction and Preface
Kassam, Karim-Aly. 2002. Preface to Ancestral Portraits: The Colour of My People by Frederick R. McDonald, A Woodland Cree Artist. Calgary: University of Calgary Press.
Invited Articles or Essays
Kassam, Karim-Aly "Why Do We Need Artists? A Meditation on the Relationship Between Religious Experience and Cultural Expression." Ismaili USA, July 2000.
Kassam, Karim-Aly "Civilizational Thinking: An Invitation to Participate." Ismaili Canada, July 2000.
Kassam, Karim-Aly and Larisa Avdeeva. 1997. "The Life of a Sami Dom Cultura (Cultural Centre) in the Russian Arctic." In Museums Review, 23(4) Winter: 29-31.
Norton, David W. and Karim-Aly Kassam. 1997. "Theme Schools: From Manifesto to Paradigm for Undergraduate Students." In Arctic, 50(1) March: 87-94.
Kassam, Karim-Aly. 1997. "Clash of Civilizations: The Selling of Fear." In Islam in America, 3(4): 8-15. View Publication (.pdf)
Book Reviews
Sarah Jewiit. "Knowledge and Gender: Local Development in India's Jharkand". In Gender and Society, 20(10) 2004.
Natasha Thorpe, Naikak Hakongak, Sandra Eyegetok and the Kitikmeot Elders. "Thunder on the Tundra: Inuit Qaujimajatuqangit of the Bathurst Caribou". In Arctic, 25(1) 2003.
Milton Freeman et al. "Inuit Whaling and Sustainability". In Arctic, 54(3) 2001.
Robert Weelersburg (Editor). "Northern People, Southern States: Maintaining Ethnicities in the Circumpolar World". In Arctic, 51(1) 1998.
Ann Fienup-Riordan. "Freeze Frame: Alaska Eskimos in the Movies". In Arctic, 50(1) 1997.
Tariq Ali. "Shadows of the Pomegranate Tree". In Islamica, 2(3) 1996.
Public Scholarship
Kassam, Karim-Aly. October 8, 2006. "Taliban's 'Clash of Civilizations' Distant from People of Pamir." Calgary Herald. Editorial Page (A10). View Publication (.pdf)
Kassam, Karim-Aly. August 15, 2006. "Climate Change Adds to Hardship in Bartang Valley." Calgary Herald. Editorial Page (A10). View Publication (.pdf)
Kassam, Karim-Aly. August 6, 2006. "A 'Stan' Whose People, Culture Remarkably Similar to Our Own." Calgary Herald. Editorial Page (A10). View Publication (.pdf)