Marjo’s research interests lie in questions of power and development and in the intersections between politics and rights. Her recent work has focused on hope, resilience and contemporary colonialism in international politics.
Readings Favorite
Both books dissect the past and present colonial relations in the Canadian Arctic. Stevenson’s book invites the reader to (re)consider what caring for the lives of others can mean and to problematize our taken for granted assumptions about what life is. Cameron offers a thought-provoking account of stories and their role in how southerners create their relations to the Arctic and its people. While there is a limit of what the southerners can know about the Arctic, this “not knowing” is not a problem for Cameron, but a way to live in the present that is still very much colonial.
· Cameron, Emilie. 2015. Far Off Metal River: Inuit Lands, Settler Stories, and the Making of the Contemporary Arctic. Vancouver: UBC Press.
· Stevenson, Lisa, 2014. Life Beside Itself. Imagining
· Care in the Canadian Arctic. Oakland: University of California Press.
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Thematic Network on Critical Arctic Studies 