Research
I am a non-Indigenous scholar who has spent most of his life on Coast Salish territories and currently resides on Treaty Six land. My research interests include Indigenous political issues and laws, cultural heritage, the Arctic, the built environment, and hate crimes. My work has been informed by legal geography and cultural geography, oftentimes in dialogue with -- and refracted by -- community participants. I have written about geographies of rights, spaces of legal abandonment, affective spaces, emotions and therapeutic landscapes, and the territoriality of law in Inuit, First Nations and/or non-Indigenous contexts.
Since 2012, I have been working with Inuit communities in the Kitikmeot region of Nunavut either on my own or in a team of scholars. I became the Principal Investigator for a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Insight Grant-funded project on Inuit laws and emotionality in 2014. Drawing from Inuit research methodologies, these collaborative projects have included four Elder-led youth land camps about caribou, fish, and seal, and related Inuit knowledge.
If you would like to know more about my research or have an interest in graduate studies in these areas, then please get in touch.
Since 2012, I have been working with Inuit communities in the Kitikmeot region of Nunavut either on my own or in a team of scholars. I became the Principal Investigator for a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Insight Grant-funded project on Inuit laws and emotionality in 2014. Drawing from Inuit research methodologies, these collaborative projects have included four Elder-led youth land camps about caribou, fish, and seal, and related Inuit knowledge.
If you would like to know more about my research or have an interest in graduate studies in these areas, then please get in touch.