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Spring 2019

Zeb, Alam

safeguards for forest-dependent indigenous groups. The objective of this study is to support Pakistan's REDD+ readiness activities that affect the Kalasha, a unique indigenous people that are nominated for enhanced protection of the UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage list. I aim to identify actors and power

, alternative heating methods and REDD+ based compensation schemes to support the most affected households of the indigenous Kalasha. In the third study, I selected 123 households on the forest margins for a detailed socio-economic survey to study factors related to household-level decision making with respect

Fall 2019

Chalmers, Jason

Holocaust or Residential Schools. The history and memory of genocide, and especially Indigenous genocide, is an integral part of settler colonialism and settler mythology. In this dissertation, I ask how sites of genocide memory reproduce – or resist – settler colonialism in Canada. I consider how memory

interpretation of national history. I contend that they are likely to produce difficult knowledge about Canadian history and myth when they engage with Indigenous peoples and perspectives. Furthermore, I argue that the framework of difficult knowledge can work as a critical – and potentially decolonising

Spring 2018

Sims, Daniel

perception of Indigenous people as lazy and in the way of progress, only made matters worse as certain pre-existing aspects suddenly became relevant and the officially recognized bands often had to deal with it on their own. Because of the impacts of the W.A.C. Bennett Dam, the connections between the three

2021-01-01

Howlett, Tracy; Catholique, Alexandria;, Karsgaard, Carrie; MacKay, Makenzie; D'Souza, Amabel

The Tracking Change – Lesson Plans for NWT and Alberta Secondary Science Classrooms are based on extensive research with Indigenous peoples and local communities in the Mackenzie River Basin through Tracking Change. This research is intended to strengthen the voices of subsistence fishers and

Indigenous communities in governance, as well as to demonstrate how the rivers are socially, economically, culturally, and ecologically important to the place and people. It was important to local communities that the knowledge they shared as part of Tracking Change was passed on to young people. These

2022-11-29

Dean, April

AFA OAPF awarded 2023: Currently the Fine Arts Building (FAB) Gallery has a lack of available budget to support curatorial innovation and research specific to the Gallery's programs. There is also a lack of representation of works, research, and solo exhibitions by Indigenous and Black professional

artists external to the Department of Art and Design in the Gallery. This project will emphasise curatorial intervention through a series of professional, curated, visual art exhibitions developed by and with Indigenous and Black contemporary art curators and artists. Each exhibition will feature artworks

2021-02-01

Carrière, Marie

project seeks to create deeper understanding of Turtle Island’s multifaceted Indigenous and settler feminist literatures and their intersectional intervention in the ecological questions of our time. There is a necessary and urgent need not only for feminist work in the Anthropocene – the most common

discourse. There are two main and connected research streams in this project, one theoretical and the other literary: 1) How does feminist ecological theory resist and present alternatives to the conceptual limitations of Anthropocene theory? 2) How does literature by Indigenous and settler minority writers

2007

Hokowhitu, Brendan

documentary films like Robert Flaherty's Nanook of the North and Moana, a new medium emerged to champion their cause. Now filmmakers are turning from the documentary depiction of these indigenous cultures to their languages and creation myths, furthering a cinematic tradition and exploring an entirely new

) Whale Rider, to the extent that these films and others of the same ilk have clustered to form an increasingly popular genre. The growing attention and curiosity of the global film audience with the indigenous subject is, thus, a phenomenon worthy of investigation. Often indigenous films are referred to

as sites of resistance, where indigenous groups are able to maintain their autonomy in the age of globalisation. To some degree, this reasoning explains why many Māori champion films such as Whale Rider and Once Were Warriors, for at least they give recognition to their social existence and

Fall 2012

Smith, Patrick F.

African art music composers in Ghanaian universities negotiate a multiplicity of identities in a time characterized by frequent international communication and travel. This thesis explores these identities and asks, what does African art music, a combination of Western and indigenous African

Spring 2011

Batchelor, Brian

narratives that present the Maya as indigenous Other fracture, so too do those that construct the tourist as authoritative consumer of cultural differentiation.

Fall 2012

Rawluk, Andrea J

that Gwich’in and Inuvialuit elders define resilience similarly to other indigenous cultures whilst offering additional perspectives. Fewer youth reported having traditional language, knowledge and spirituality than elders, but expressed a desire to learn them and described spiritual experiences. All