Please join us on Friday, February 3 from 2:30 PM to 4:00 PM Loeb A220 for the Department of Geography and Environmental Studies bi-weekly Founders Seminar Series. All welcome!
The Department of Geography and Environmental Studies would like to announce that our department speaker for Friday is Dr. Zoe Todd. Dr. Todd is currently working on the relationships between people and fish in the context of colonialism, environmental change and resource extraction in Treaty Six Territory (Edmonton, amiskwaciwâskahikan), Alberta.
This talk will explore the relationships between Trump’s administration, the rise of fascist threats across the North American continent, the entanglements of petro-state economies and politics with neo-fascist ideologies, and the potentialities of resistance that come from Indigenous legal traditions which centre the reciprocal responsibilities humans share with more-than-human beings, such as fish.
Zoe Todd (Métis) is from amiskwaciwâskahikan (Edmonton) in the Treaty Six Area of Alberta, Canada. She is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology in the Sociology and Anthropology department at Carleton University. She researches fish, colonialism and legal-governance relations between Indigenous peoples and the Canadian State. In the past, she has researched human-fish relations in the Inuvialuit Settlement Region, and has conducted work on Arctic Food Security in the Inuvialuit Settlement Region in the Northwest Territories, Canada. Her current work focuses on the relationships between people and fish in the context of colonialism, environmental change and resource extraction in Treaty Six Territory (Edmonton, amiskwaciwâskahikan), Alberta. Her work employs a critical Indigenous feminist lens to examine the shared relationships between people and their environments and legal traditions in Canada, with a view to understanding how to bring fish and the more-than-human into conversations about Indigenous self-determination, peoplehood, and governance in Canada today.
Web site: zoesctodd.wordpress.com.
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