Julie Tomiak
Associate Professor, School of Indigenous and Canadian Studies
| Degrees: | MA (Freie Universität Berlin), PhD (Carleton) |
| Email: | julie.tomiak@carleton.ca |
I am an interdisciplinary researcher of mixed Anishinaabe and European descent who studies Indigenous resurgence in cities. My primary areas of research are decolonization, Indigenous resistance to settler colonialism, land reclamation, urban reserves, settler statecraft, neoliberalization and racial capitalism. Displacing the colonial notion of the city as settler space is central to my research agenda and also the focus of a recently published collection co-edited with Heather Dorries, Robert Henry, David Hugill and Tyler McCreary, Settler City Limits: Indigenous Resurgence and Colonial Violence in the Urban Prairie West.
My current work includes a study of the role of research in Indigenous community-building in Toronto, a critical analysis of the federal government’s urban Indigenous policy, and a project (with Justin Paulson) on the relationship between old and new forms of enclosure, settler violence and Indigenous resistance against dispossession and infrastructures of settler capitalism in British Columbia.
Before joining the School of Indigenous and Canadian Studies in 2019, I taught in the Department of Sociology at Ryerson University.
Selected Publications
Dorries, Heather, Robert Henry, David Hugill, Tyler McCreary, and Julie Tomiak, eds. 2019. Settler City Limits: Indigenous Resurgence and Colonial Violence in the Urban Prairie West. Winnipeg: University of Manitoba Press.
Tomiak, Julie. 2019. Contested Entitlement: Kapyong Barracks, Treaty One, and the Settler Colonial Production of Space in Winnipeg. In Settler City Limits: Indigenous Resurgence and Colonial Violence in the Urban Prairie West, eds. Dorries, Heather, Robert Henry, David Hugill, Tyler McCreary, and Julie Tomiak. Winnipeg: University of Manitoba Press.
Tomiak, Julie, Tyler McCreary, David Hugill, Robert Henry, and Heather Dorries. 2019. Introduction: Settler City Limits. In Settler City Limits: Indigenous Resurgence and Colonial Violence in the Urban Prairie West, eds. Dorries, Heather, Robert Henry, David Hugill, Tyler McCreary, and Julie Tomiak. Winnipeg: University of Manitoba Press.
Dorries, Heather, David Hugill and Julie Tomiak. 2019. Racial capitalism and the production of settler colonial cities. Geoforum https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2019.07.016.
Barraclough, Laura, Nicholas Brown, David Hugill, Julie Tomiak, Kyle Mays & Natchee Blu Barnd. 2019. Native Space: Geographic Strategies to Unsettle Settler Colonialism. The AAG Review of Books 7 (2): 126-134, DOI: 10.1080/2325548X.2019.1579593.
Tomiak, Julie. 2018. What about Cities? Containing Urban Self-Determination through the Indigenous Rights Framework (Policy Brief, Issue 13). Toronto: Yellowhead Institute. https://yellowheadinstitute.org/2018/09/26/what-about-cities-urban-self-determination/
Tomiak, Julie. 2017. Contesting the settler city: Indigenous self-determination, new urban reserves, and the neoliberalization of colonialism. Antipode 49 (4): 928-945.
Tomiak, Julie. 2016. Navigating the contradictions of the shadow state: The Assembly of First Nations, state funding, and scales of Indigenous resistance. Studies in Political Economy 97 (3): 217-233. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/07078552.2016.1249130
Tomiak, Julie. 2016. Unsettling Ottawa: Settler colonialism, Indigenous resistance, and the politics of scale. Canadian Journal of Urban Research25 (1): 8-21.