Research
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Painting by Frederick R. McDonald
Dr. Kassam is interested in applied research that has immediate impact and is of relevance to communities. His research interests include:
- Arctic social science;
- Bio-cultural diversity;
- Circumpolar cultures and change;
- Climate change and its impacts;
- Community economic development;
- Gender analysis;
- Human ecology;
- Indigenous knowledge (ways of knowing);
- Indigenous land and marine use;
- Natural resource policy and management;
- Participatory action research;
- Social change in indigenous communities; and
- Social history of Muslim society
- Pluralism