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 Journal

  • Founding editor: Journal of Critical Research Methodologies-CDS Press

  • Journal:Guest Editor, Special Issue, Interdisciplinary Journal of Student Success, July 2024-present

  • Guest Editor, Special Issue, Journal of Ethnicity in Substance Abuse, July 2024-present

 

Books  

  • Nyaga D. & Torres R.A (2024). Reimagining Mental Health and Addiction Under the Covid-19 Pandemic Volume 1. Springer Publishing

  • Nyaga D. & Torres R.A (2024). Reimagining Mental Health and Addiction Under the Covid-19 Pandemic Volume 2 Springer Publishing

  • Nyaga D. & Torres R.A(2024) Reimagining Mental Health and Addiction Under the Covid-19 Pandemic Volume 3. Springer Publishing.

  • Nyaga D. & Masood Zangeneh. (Forthcoming).Critical ethics on mental health and madness. Springer publishing 

  • Nyaga D & Torres R.A (Forthcoming).Whose life and Voice matters in teaching and Learning . Interdisciplinary Journal of Student Success. CDS Publishing.

  • Torres R.A & Nyaga D. (Forthcoming). Critical Methodologies and
    Substance Abuse . Journal of Ethnicity in substance abuse. Routledge  Taylor and Francis Group

  • Nyaga, D. & Torres, R.A. (Forthcoming). *Living in Pandemic Worlds: Intersectional Perspectives on Mental Health and Addiction.* Springer Publishing.

  • Nyaga D & Rose R.A (Forthcoming). Doing anti-oppression social work differently. CDS publishing.

  • Nyaga, D, Wyper L, Torres R.A (Eds). (Forthcoming). Ethics of Community Development and  Capacity Building. Canadian Scholar publishers. 

  • Dei G., Nyaga D, Kami J (2025). African Storytelling for Global Citizenship: Lessons in Anti Colonial Education. edgar publishing. 

  • Nyaga, D, & Torres, R. (2021). Critical research methodologies: Ethics and Responsibilities. Brill publisher. 

  • Wane, N.., Torres, R. & Nyaga, D. (Eds.) (2019). Transversing and Translocating Spiritualities:  An Epistemological, Theoretical, and Pedagogical Conversations. Nsemia Publishers.  

  • Nyaga, D (2015). Disturbing masculinity. Lap Lambert Academic publishing.  

Peer-Reviewed Journal Article

  • Torres, R. A., Damasco, V., & Nyaga, D. (2024). De-essentializing racial pain: Stories of Filipino health care workers. Journal of Ethnicity in Substance Abuse, 1–12. https://doi.org/10.1080/15332640.2024.2446734

  • Nyaga, D., Torres, R. A., Patel, Z. B., Allen, T. A. C., & James, A. (2024). Effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on Black African youth and homelessness in Toronto. Journal of Ethnicity in Substance Abuse, 1–28. https://doi.org/10.1080/15332640.2024.2412031

  • Al-Krenawi, A., Nyaga, D., & Torres, R. A. (2024). Exploring Islamic social work - between community and the common good: edited by Hansjörg Schmid and Amir Sheikhzadegan, Muslims in Global Societies Series by Springer, 2022, 284 pp., £35 (soft cover), https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-95880-0. Social Work Education, 43(3), 837–840. https://doi.org/10.1080/02615479.2023.2212528

  • Torres, R.A. and Nyaga, D. (2023) ‘Shifting the Working/Teaching Environment: A Transdisciplinary Perspectives’, International Journal of Integrated Care, 23(S1), p. 99. Available at: https://doi.org/10.5334/ijic.ICIC23354.

  • Nyaga D & Torres. RA (2023) Reconceptualizing Victimhood and Resiliency: Transnational Narratives of Filipinas in Canada. Review of women studies. Vol. 32. Num. 2.

  • Nyaga, D & Torres, R. A. (2017). Gendered Citizenship: A Case Study of Paid Filipino Male Live In Caregivers in Toronto. International Journal of Asia-Pacific Studies, 13(1), 51–71.  https://doi.org/10.21315/ijaps2017.13.1.3 

  • Torres, R. A., & Nyaga, D. (2016). Discussion of Power through the Eyes of the Margins: Praxis of Post-colonial Aeta Indigenous Women Healers in the Philippines. International Journal of Asia-Pacific Studies, 12(2), 31–56. https://doi.org/10.21315/ijaps2016.12.2.2

  • Torres, R. & Nyaga, D. (2015). The Politics of Cultural Representation. Sociology Study  Journal, vol. 5, no.9. https://doi: 10.17265/2159-5526/2015.09

Refereed Book Chapters : 

  • Nyaga. D & Cameron, R. (2025). Black and Indigenous Trauma and Ethics of Care in Neoliberal  Registration. On Tufford R. & Dylan A. (Forthcoming). Trauma-informed Care in Social Work Education: Implications for Students, Educators, Pedagogy, and Field. Routledge Publishers. 

  • Nyaga. D. (2024) .Preface. In the Nyaga D. & Torres R.A (2024). In the Reimagining Mental Health and Addiction Under the Covid-19 Pandemic Volume 1. Springer Publishing.

  • Boston M M., Nyaga. D. , Torres RA, Fernando Y. (2024). Mental Health and Field Education Praxis During COVID-19 Pandemic. In the Nyaga D. & Torres R.A (2024). In the Reimagining Mental Health and Addiction Under the Covid-19 Pandemic Volume 1. Springer Publishing.

  • Nyaga D , Woodman D. (2024).Disrupting Truth in Theory Production in the Shadow of COVID 19. In the Nyaga D. & Torres R.A (2024). In the Reimagining Mental Health and Addiction Under the Covid-19 Pandemic Volume 1. Springer Publishing.

  • Nyaga. D. (2024) .The pandemic life and Africanizing teaching and learning. . In the Nyaga D. & Torres R.A (2024). In the Reimagining Mental Health and Addiction Under the Covid-19 Pandemic Volume 1. Springer Publishing

  • Nyaga, D. (2023). "Chapter 1 Making Research Black and Strange: Why History Matters in the Current Disappearing World". In Critical Reflexive Research Methodologies. Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004681644_003

  • Nyaga, D., Onishenko, D., & Torres, R. A. (2023). "Chapter 2 Grounded Theory: Effects of COVID-19 on Homeless Youth: Methodological Reflections". In Critical Reflexive Research Methodologies. Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004681644_004

  • Nyaga, D. (2023). "Chapter 5 Beyond Codified Logics of Ethics: Jungle and the Ethics of Non-violence". In Critical Reflexive Research Methodologies. Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004681644_007

  • Nyaga, W., & Nyaga, D. (2023). "Chapter 6 Africa beyond Africa: Afro-pessimism as an Ethical Demand". In Critical Reflexive Research Methodologies. Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004681644_008

  • Nyaga, D. (2023). "Chapter 7 Markets Logics in Research Process and the Denigration of Black Bodies". In Critical Reflexive Research Methodologies. Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004681644_009

  • Nyaga, D. (2021). "Chapter 11 Black Afrocentric Methodologies: Beyond Colour-Coated Investigation". In Critical Research Methodologies. Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004445567_013

  • Nyaga, D. (2021). "Chapter 5 My Blackness Is African: Looking at Kenyan Man through Black/Afrocentric Methodologies". In Critical Research Methodologies. Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004445567_007

  • Torres, R. A, & Nyaga, D. (2021). "Chapter 7 Research as an Inconsolable Mourning: Reimagining Pedestrian Research". In Critical Research Methodologies. Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004445567_009

  • Nyaga, D. (2021). "Chapter 1 Critical Research Methodologies: Positionality, Ethics, Power". In Critical Research Methodologies. Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004445567_003

  •  Torres, R. A, & Nyaga, D. (2021). "Afterword: Using Critical Research Methodologies: The Significance of Reflexivity, Resistance, and Response". In Critical Research Methodologies. Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004445567_014

  • Nyaga, D. & Torres, R. (2019). Education, Neoliberalism, and humanizing Curriculum. In  Decolonization/Decolonial/Anti-Colonial Theory: Shared lineages and contestations, Zainub, A.  (Ed.). 153–162. Sense Publisher. 

  • Nyaga, D. (2019) Archeology of Black Hurricanes and White teardrops. In Wane, N.., Torres, R.  & Nyaga, D. (Eds.) (2019). Transversing and Translocating Spiritualities: An Epistemological,  Theoretical, and Pedagogical Conversations.331-340 Nsemia Publishers. 

  • Wane, N., Torres, R, & Nyaga, D. (2019). Community care as a praxis. Wane, N.., Torres, R. &  Nyaga, D. (Eds.) (2019). Transversing and Translocating Spiritualities: An Epistemological,  Theoretical, and Pedagogical Conversations. 253-265.Nsemia Publishers. 

  • Torres, R, & Nyaga, D. (2019). Re-Thinking Marx: Narratives of Women Healers in the  Philippines. Wane, N.., Torres, R. & Nyaga, D. (Eds.) (2019). Transversing and Translocating  Spiritualities: An Epistemological, Theoretical, and Pedagogical Conversations. 123- 146.Nsemia Publishers. 

  • Wane N., Torres R.A., Nyaga D. (2019) African Indigenous Governance from a Spiritual  Lens. In: McKinley E., Smith L. (eds) Handbook of Indigenous Education. Springer,  Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-3899-0_45 

  • Nyaga, D. 2017. “New Possibilities for School Curriculum: Praxis of Indigenous Peoples in  Kenya.” In Inclusive Education in African Contexts, edited by N. Phasha, D. Mahlo, and G. S. Dei,  139–149. Rotterdam: Sense Publishers.

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Dionisio NYAGA | Assistant Professor | Ph.D | Algoma University, Sault Ste. Marie | Social Work | Research profile