Emilie is a human geographer with expertise in settler colonialism, extractivism, and Indigenous/non-Indigenous relations. Her research attends to the politics of knowledge and translation, the role of resource extraction in both colonizing and decolonizing movements, and geographies of colonial-racial-capitalism in the Canadian North. Recently she has been focused on environmental impact assessment and land use planning.
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They provide important insights into the ways in which extractive development, settler colonialism, and Indigenous self-determination movements have interwoven in northern Canada, the political and economic terrain within which contemporary land use decisions unfold, and the importance of northern Indigenous knowledge systems and land relations.
- Kuokkanen, Rauna. 2011. From indigenous economies to market-based self-governance: A feminist political economy analysis. Canadian Journal of Political Science/Revue canadienne de science politique, 44(2), 275-297.
- Coulthard, Glen. 2014. Red Skins White Masks: Rejecting the Colonial Politics of Recognition. University of Minnesota Press.
- McGrath, Janet Tamalik. 2019. The Qaggiq Model: Toward a Theory of Inuktut Knowledge Renewal. Iqaluit: Nunavut Arctic College Media.
- Atleo, Cliff. 2021. Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Canada’s Carbon Economy and Indigenous Ambivalence. In W. K. Carroll (Ed.) Regime of obstruction: How corporate power blocks energy democracy. Athabasca University Press.
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Thematic Network on Critical Arctic Studies 