CICADA Co-Investigators
Name | Institution | Discipline | Research Focus | Selected Publications |
Kirsten Anker | McGill University | Law | Property law, aboriginal peoples and the law, legal theory, law and social science, law and language, alternative dispute resolution. | |
Pierre Beaucage | Université de Montréal | Anthropology | Impacts of Canadian mining in Canada and in Latin America, resistance movements. | |
John Bishop | Grand Council of the Crees | Toponymy | Cree place names, language, mapping. | |
Peter Brown | McGill University | Natural Resource Sciences | Environments of social transformations, social and cultural factors of environmental protection, economics, environmental ethics, physical and biological sciences, public policy, social and political philosophy. | Brown, Peter. 2004. “Are there any natural resources?,” Politics of Life Sciences 23(1): 12-21. |
Sébastien Caquard![]() |
Concordia University | Geography, Planning and Environment | Mapping narratives, Indigenous cartography, oral history, geoweb, environment, GIS, Atlascine. | McGurk, Thomas J. and SĂ©bastien Caquard. 2020. âTo what extent online mapping can be decolonial? A journey throughout Indigenous cartography in Canada,” The Canadian Geographer: 1â16. Caquard, SĂ©bastien, Annita Lucchesi, Thomas Mcgurk, Daviken Studnicki-Gizbert and Leah Temper. 2019. âUsing maps as a weapon to resist extractive industries on Indigenous territories.â The Conversation, April 22, 2019. |
Treena Wasonti:io Delormier | McGill University | Nutrition and Environment | Food, nutrition and health of Indigenous peoples. | |
Caroline Desbiens![]() |
Université Laval | Human geography | Cultural and historical geography, gender studies, land tenure, Indigenous knowledge, hydroelectric development, Innu People, place-based heritage, tourism, cultural transmission and appropriation. | |
Sabrina Doyon | UniversitĂ© Laval | Anthropology | Social and cultural determinants of environmental protection, sustainable development, globalization, social movements, political ecology, governance and management, socialism, post-socialism, maritimes region, Latin America, Cuba, Mexico. | Doyon, Sabrina, and Ismael Vaccaro, eds. 2019. “Repenser la conservation environnementale,” Anthropologie et sociĂ©tĂ©s 43(3), special issue. |
Benoit Ăthier ![]() |
Université du Québec en Abitibi-Témiscamingue (UQAT) | Indigenous Studies | Indigenous territorial issues, customary rights, indigenous knowledge related to resource management, legal pluralism and indigenous/non-indigenous relations. Project |
Ăthier, Benoit. 2020. « Analyzing Entangled Territorialities and Indigenous Use of Maps: Atikamekw Nehirowisiwok (QuĂ©bec, Canada) Dynamics of Territorial Negotiations, Frictions and Creativity », The Canadian Geographer, Thematic Issues: Indigenous Spatial Capital: Turning Places, Knowledge and Practices into Mapping Processes, C. Desbiens, I. Hirt and B. Collignon (eds.). Ăthier, Benoit, GĂ©rald Ottawa et Christian Coocoo. 2020. « Redefining the Lexicon of Power, Envisionning Indigenous Future : The Atikamekw Nehirowisiw Nation and Comprehensive Land Claims Negotiations », Anthropologica, special issue « On Living Together with the Land », C. Westman et S. Poirier (dirs.). |
Nicole Fenton![]() |
Université du Québec en Abitibi-Témiscamingue (UQAT) | Forestry | Biodiversity and biocomplexity, biogeography, terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems, ecological and ecophysiological processes, forestry, bryology. | |
James Ford![]() |
McGill University | Geography | Climate change, indigenous health, traditional knowledge, arctic environments, ecological trends, environmental health, international cooperation, policies and public services, social determinants of health. | |
John G. Galaty | McGill University | Anthropology | Pastoralism, rangeland development, wildlife and community conservation, property and land tenure, legal anthropology, social conflict and violence, identity, ritual, eastern Africa. Project: Food security, Kenya |
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Kevin Gould | Concordia University | Geography, Planning and Environment | Politics of environmental and economic policy-making in the Americas, economic geography, political ecology, politics of market-assisted land reform, post-disaster reconstruction, Cold War infrastructure development. | |
Ingrid Hall | Université de Montréal | Anthropology | Biodiversity and biocomplexity, natural resources, systems of representation, protected areas, political socialization, Peru. | |
Martin Hébert | Université Laval | Anthropology | Indigenous peoples, socio-economic conditions, economic and political integration, social movements, social justice, social organization and political systems, economic production, natural resources, auto-development. Project: Impacts of Violence, Chile and Mexico |
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Gordon Hickey | McGill University | Natural Resource Sciences | Sustainable development, sustainable forestry, social and cultural factors of environmental protection, power and organization, ecological trends, conservation, environmental assessment, governance and institutions, knowledge integration, regulation and policy, stakeholder analysis. Projects: Dialogues on Sustainability Food security, Kenya |
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Murray Humphries | McGill University | Indigenous Nutrition and Environment | Energetics and ecology, integration of traditional and scientific ecological knowledge to monitor and predict environmental change impacts on northern wildlife and traditional food security, Canadian subarctic. Project: Protected Areas, Eeyou-Istchee |
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Peter Johansen | McGill University | Anthropology | Archeology, Neolithic and Iron Age settlements and practices, First Nationâs directed archaeological research and heritage management, Canada, South India | |
Eduardo Kohn | McGill University | Anthropology | Ecological anthropology, human-animal relations, paralinguistic anthropology, semiotics, ecological trends, Latin America, Amazonia, Quichua. | |
Nicolas Kosoy | McGill University | Natural Resource Sciences |
Ecological economics, economic history, conservation, socioeconomics of climate change, environmental resource management, Latin America, Asia. | |
Claudia Mitchell![]() |
McGill University | Integrated Studies in Education | Gender, body and dress, HIV/AIDS, sexual health, social contexts, teacher education, youth, Quebec, Southern Africa. | Mitchell, Claudia and Relebohile Moletsane. 2018. Disrupting Shameful Legacies. Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill | Sense. |
GeneviÚve Motard | Université Laval | Law | Constitutional law, law and justice, identity and indigenous governance, self-governance, comprehensive claims, aboriginal law. | |
Monica Mulrennan![]() |
Concordia University | Geography, Planning, and Environment | Indigenous peoples use and management of coastal and marine environments, local ecological knowledge, community-based management, protected area development, human adaptations to environmental change, Crees of subarctic Quebec. Project: Protected Areas, Eeyou-Istchee |
Mulrennan, Monica E., Colin H. Scott and Katherine Scott, eds. 2019. Caring for Eeyou Itschee: Protected Area Creation on Wemindji Cree Territory. Vancouver: UBC Press. Mulrennan, Monica E. and Véronique BussiÚres. 2018. Social-Ecological Resilience in Indigenous Coastal Edge Contexts. Ecology and Society, 23(3): 18. |
Sylvie Poirier![]() |
Université Laval | Anthropology | Indigenous knowledge and transmission, indigenous territorialities, land claims, cosmology, relational ontology, theories of culture, ontological anthropology, anthropology of dreams and dreaming, decolonization of research, Atikamekw Nehirowisiwok, Australian Aborigines (Western desert). Project: Post-Colonial Indigenous Territorialities |
Poirier, Sylvie, and Clinton Westman, eds. 2020. “Living Together with the Land: Reaching and Honouring Treaties with Indigenous Peoples,” Anthropologica 62(2), special issue: 236-247. |
Ătienne Roy GrĂ©goire![]() |
UniversitĂ© du QuĂ©bec Ă Chicoutimi | Political Science | Mining regulation, Indigenous rights | Roy GrĂ©goire, Etienne. 2020. âGouvernementalitĂ© extractive et autodĂ©termination au Canada. ĂcosystĂšmes normatifs et charge critique de lâinter-normativitĂ©,â Canadian Journal of Law and Society / Revue canadienne droit et sociĂ©tĂ© 35(3): 455-475. |
Colin H. Scott![]() |
McGill University | Anthropology | Indigenous knowledge and resource management, tenure systems, indigenous rights of property and governance, ecological anthropology, relational ontologies, Crees of northern Quebec.
Projects: Canadian First Nations Ontologies Dialogues on Sustainability Indigenous Engagements with Mining Living Well in the Torres Strait Protected Areas, Eeyou-Istchee |
Mulrennan, Monica E., Colin H. Scott and Katherine Scott, eds. 2019. Caring for Eeyou Itschee: Protected Area Creation on Wemindji Cree Territory. Vancouver: UBC Press. |
Daviken Studnicki-Gizbert | McGill University | History | Ecological trends, intercultural and ethnic relations, migration, trade, history of mining, urban dynamics, Latin America, Mexico, Panama.
Projects: Community Atlas, Urracå Dialogues on Sustainability Indigenous Engagements with Mining Oral History, Comarca NgÀbé-Buglé |
Caquard, SĂ©bastien, Annita Lucchesi, Thomas Mcgurk, Daviken Studnicki-Gizbert and Leah Temper. 2019. âUsing maps as a weapon to resist extractive industries on Indigenous territories.â The Conversation, April 22, 2019 |
Sara Teitelbaum![]() |
UniversitĂ© de MontrĂ©al | Sociology | Community-based management, forests, Indigenous peoples. Her work focusses on Indigenous governance surrounding forests in boreal regions. | Teitelbaum, Sara, Stephen Wyatt, Marie St-Arnaud and Christoph Stamm. 2019. “Regulatory intersections and Indigenous rights: Lessons from Forest Stewardship Council certification in Quebec, Canada.” Canadian Journal of Forest Research. 49(4): 414-422. Teitelbaum, Sara. 2015. “Le respect des droits des peuples autochtones dans le domaine de la gestion forestieÌre au QueÌbec: quelle eÌvolution (1960-2014)?” Recherches sociographiques, 56(2-3): 299-323. |
Jon Unruh | McGill University | Geography | Foreign aid, social movements, agriculture, land policy, land tenure, land and property law, development and foreign aid, armed conflict, social movements, sustainable development, pastoral groups, eastern Africa. | |
Ismael Vaccaro | McGill University | Arts | Environmental anthropology, political ecology, property theory, landscape analysis, political anthropology, development, conservation policies, Mexico. | Doyon, Sabrina, and Ismael Vaccaro, eds. 2019. “Repenser la conservation environnementale,” Anthropologie et sociĂ©tĂ©s 43(3), special issue. |
George Wenzel | McGill University | Geography | Inuit ecology and economy, hunter-gatherer ecology, non-cash economies, wildlife management conflicts, traditional ecological knowledge systems. |