Wednesday Nov. 6 – Author-Meets-Critics Discussion of Tyler McCreary’s Indigenous Legalities, Pipeline Viscosities
The Department of Geography and Environmental Studies (in partnership with Law and Legal Studies, Climate Commons, and the Institute of Political Economy) is thrilled to present an author-meets-critics discussion with geographer Tyler McCreary about his new book Indigenous Legalities, Pipeline Viscosities: Colonial Extractivism and Wet’suwet’en Resistance (University of Alberta Press, 2024). Prof McCreary will be joined in conversation with Prof Julie Tomiak (Indigenous Studies, Carleton), Prof John Carlson(Criminology, uOttawa), and Prof Graeme Auld (Public Policy and Administration, Carleton).
Event Details
Wednesday November 6th, 2024
14:30-16:00, followed by a casual social event
Dunton Tower 2017
Book Description
Indigenous Legalities, Pipeline Viscosities examines the relationship between the Wet’suwet’en and hydrocarbon pipeline development, showing how colonial governments and corporations seek to control Indigenous claims and how the Wet’suwet’en resist. Tyler McCreary explores pipeline regulatory review processes, reviews attempts to reconcile Indigeneity with development, and asks fundamental questions about territory and jurisdiction. In the process, he offers historical context for the continuing influences of colonialism on Indigenous peoples. Throughout, McCreary demonstrates how the cyclical movements between resistance and reconciliation are affected by the unequal relations between Indigenous peoples, colonial governments, and development operations. This sophisticated analysis invites readers to consider the complex realities of Indigenous and Wet’suwet’en law, as well as the politics of pipeline development.
Speakers
Tyler McCreary is Associate Professor in the Department of Geography at Florida State University, where he is also affiliated with the Native American and Indigenous Studies Center and the African American Studies Program. This year he is also Visiting Faculty with the Institute of Political Economy at Carleton University. His research examines how settler colonialism and racial capitalism inflect processes governing land, livelihood, and community life in North America. He has published four books, and over forty journal articles and book chapters. His most recent book is Indigenous Legalities, Pipeline Viscosities: Colonial Extractivism and Wet’suwet’en Resistance (University of Alberta Press, 2024).
Julie Tomiak is an Associate Professor in Indigenous Studies at Carleton University’s Institute of Interdisciplinary Studies. She is a researcher of Anishinaabe and European descent who is interested in histories and geographies of colonial and capitalist dispossession and Indigenous resistance, resurgence, and Land Back.
John Carlson is King Fisher clan Anishinaabe and a member of the Red Rock Indian Band. He is also an Assistant Professor in the Department of Criminology at the University of Ottawa.
Graeme Auld is a Professor in Carleton University’s School of Public Policy and Administration. He researches regulations, environmental politics and global governance, with a particular focus on the history, politics, and operations of transnational forms private regulatory governance. He is author of Constructing Private Governance: The Rise and Evolution of Forest, Coffee, and Fisheries Certification (Yale University Press, 2014)