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Bake Sales to Save Nature: Why Wall Street Conservation Survives

open access: yesDevelopment and Change, Volume 57, Issue 1, Page 3-26, January 2026.
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
wiley   +1 more source

Principled Experiments in Just Being: From Police Oversight to Community Intersight

open access: yesPoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review, Volume 48, Issue 2, November 2025.
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
wiley   +1 more source

The Importance of Bark Products in the Aboriginal Economies of Northwestern British Columbia Canada [PDF]

open access: yes, 1992
In the coniferous forest dominated landscape of northwestern British Columbia, bark products were used to fill many needs which in less heavily forested environments were filled by herbaceous plants.
Gottesfeld, L.J.M.
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Red Paint Resistance: A Spatial‐Temporal Case Study of Graffiti as Civil Resistance in Contemporary Settler‐Colonial Canada

open access: yesPeace &Change, Volume 50, Issue 4, Page 315-326, October 2025.
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
wiley   +1 more source

More than a pipeline: understanding and responding to the environmental injustices surrounding the Coastal GasLink pipeline conflict [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
The winter of 2020 was dominated by Canadian and international news coverage about a group of indigenous land defenders in Northern British Columbia, Canada.
van Meijeren Karp, Avital Meira
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Revitalizing Indigenous Languages, Fostering Self‐Governance, Overcoming the Indian Act: A Case Study of Lil'wat Nation

open access: yesCanadian Public Administration, Volume 68, Issue 3, Page 470-486, September 2025.
Abstract This article examines how Indigenous language revitalization serves as a foundation for self‐governance and legal resurgence, focusing on the Lil'wat Nation's efforts to reclaim Ucwalmícwts. Drawing on presentations from the 30th Stabilizing Indigenous Languages Symposium and community‐based sources, the article highlights how language encodes
Qátsya7 Mason Ducharme   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Understory Plant Community Response to a Range of Restoration Scenarios in Northeast US Pitch Pine (Pinus rigida) Barrens

open access: yesApplied Vegetation Science, Volume 28, Issue 3, July/September 2025.
Understory plant communities in pitch pine (Pinus rigida) barrens show distinct species abundance and structural attributes associated with different restoration strategies. We investigated the impacts of four management approaches, along with untreated control sites across four states in the Northeast United States.
Kathleen A. Stutzman   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Death of Reconciliation?: Settler Colonialism, the Wet'suwet'en, and the Coastal GasLink Pipeline [PDF]

open access: yes, 2023
This thesis focuses on the Coastal GasLink pipeline in British Columbia and the resistance against it by the Wet’suwet’en and other Indigenous land defenders. It uses this conflict to illustrate the differing views on reconciliation in Canada. Throughout
Lankveld, M.
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Nothing to hide: How governments justify the adoption of ag‐gag laws

open access: yesCanadian Review of Sociology/Revue canadienne de sociologie, Volume 62, Issue 1, Page 75-98, February 2025.
Abstract Mainstream practices for producing meat, eggs, and dairy raise numerous concerns regarding public health, animal welfare, and environmental integrity. However, governments worldwide have expanded anti‐whistleblower legislation that constrains informed public debate.
Anelyse M. Weiler, Tayler Zavitz
wiley   +1 more source

Counteracting Settler Legal Systems: Oral Histories, The Indian Act, and Reconciling Indigenous Law in Canada [PDF]

open access: yes, 2021
The 1997 Supreme Court case Delgamuukw v. British Columbia was groundbreaking in its recognition of oral histories as evidence of Aboriginal title. Brought forth by the Wet’suwet’en and Gitxsan nations, the trial would decide the title to territory in ...
Cruickshank, Johnathon
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