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Contemporary Indigenous mental health research is beginning to address colonization, contextualizing Indigenous health within a history of colonial relationships and inadequate mental health responses.
Panofsky, Sarah
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Indigenous Futurities: Theorizing Futurity in the Past and Present
ABSTRACT Over the past 20 years, a growing number of activists, scholars, writers, and visual artists have engaged with futurism as a framework for representing the lives of Indigenous peoples. Inspired by this hopeful reframing of the past‐present‐future, contributions to this special section of American Anthropologist address the question: How can ...
Lindsay Martel Montgomery +1 more
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Laying Waste: Pre‐Emption, Dispossession, and Deputization in Colonial British Columbia
ABSTRACT Pre‐emption, a legal instrument allowing settlers to acquire Indigenous land via occupation and improvement, is a vital means of colonial dispossession in North America, yet has received relatively little critical attention. Our analysis outlines its significance, shedding new light on the way in which private property power and state ...
Brenna Bhandar, Nicholas Blomley
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Indigenous Environmental Activism and Media Depiction
Media bias is a reality of the infoglut we are bombarded with every day. However, we often consider bias to be consigned to the textual realm of information. I argue that anything human-mediated holds bias, including photographs.
Raphaela G O Pavlakos
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The Managed Erosion of Conservation Priorities for Pacific Salmon
ABSTRACT Conservation policies worldwide promise to halt biodiversity loss, yet implementation frequently lags intent. We examine this disconnect through wild Pacific salmon (Oncorhynchus spp.) in Canada, where sustained declines have occurred despite the federal Wild Salmon Policy and legal protections available under the Species at Risk Act.
Michael H. H. Price +7 more
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The Rite of Water: Other‐Than‐Human Refusals in the Bow Valley
ABSTRACT In the summer of 2013, the Bow River in Southern Alberta, Canada, experienced a significant high‐water event caused by a large rainstorm, which had widespread impacts on infrastructure throughout its watershed. However, viewed through an other‐than‐human lens, these moments of infrastructural disruption caused by the high waters can be ...
Tiffany Kaewen Dang
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Bake Sales to Save Nature: Why Wall Street Conservation Survives
ABSTRACT Academics have spent decades analysing the harms and failures of market and finance‐led biodiversity policy. Yet, even though ‘selling nature to save it’ looks less like the promised green capitalism and more like a decades‐long bake sale in that its efforts are small, piecemeal and rely on copious amounts of cheap capital, the approach ...
Jessica Dempsey
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Principled Experiments in Just Being: From Police Oversight to Community Intersight
ABSTRACT This article compares ideals and practices of police oversight in two very different contexts—settler colonial North America and “post” colonial South Asia—to interrogate fundamental principles underlying police oversight globally and to imagine new ways of working toward transformation.
Beatrice Jauregui
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Everything to Lose: Extraction, Racism, and Survival on Wet\u27suwet\u27en Land
This work critically analyzes the role of extractive industry in the continued colonization of Indigenous peoples and occupation of Indigenous lands, and examines how Indigenous resistance to oil and gas projects augments the damaging effects of fossil ...
Spice, Anne
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ABSTRACT Drawing from research conducted across 2021–2024, this article presents the case study of an often‐graffitied Queen Victoria statue in Kitchener, Ontario, Canada. Through engaging red paint on this physical colonial monument, it is demonstrated that graffiti has the capacity to be an important method of civil resistance that can influencially ...
Eric Lepp
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