CICADA Collaborators

Name	Institution	Discipline	Research Focus	Selected Publications
Jon Altman	Australian National University	RegNet: School of Regulation and Global Governance	Social justice, economic development, indigenous policy, indigenous participation in global economy, commercial fishing, indigenous customary economy, land rights and title, indigenous land and sea management, aboriginal peoples of Australia. Project: Indigenous Development	Altman, Jon, and Francis Markham. 2019. “Basic Income and Cultural Participation for Remote-Living Indigenous Australians.” In Implementing a Basic Income in Australia, Exploring the Basic Income Guarantee, edited by E. Klein, J. Mays and T. Dunlop, 87-109. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan.
David George Anderson	University of Aberdeen	Anthropology	Ecological anthropology, indigenous resource rights, environmental archaeology,  human-animal relations, political anthropology, landscape studies, ethnohistory, archaeology, cross-cultural ideas of health, northwestern Canada, indigenous peoples of Siberia.
Caroline Archambault	Leiden University	Geosciences	Socio-cultural anthropology, development, demography, education, childhood, gender studies, migration, impact assessments, pastoralism, informal settlements, Sub-Saharan Africa.
José Aylwin	Universidad Austral de Chile (UACH)	Law	Indigenous law and legislation, indigenous rights, legal pluralism, human rights, ethnicity and intercultural relations, land claims, Latin America, Chile, Mapuche.
Janelle Baker	Athabasca University	Anthropology	Cultural politics of energy, Cree perspectives on wild food contamination in Alberta’s oil sands region, community-based environmental monitoring, traditional foods
Elena Bennett	McGill University	Natural Resource Sciences	Landscape studies, ecosystems, agriculture, sustainable resource management, human impacts on biogeochemical cycles, human perturbation of ecosystem processes, land use analysis, limnology, urban ecology.
Jessica Black	Heritage University	Indigenous Health, Culture & Environment	Her most recent projects involve researching sustainable agricultural practices for water stressed agricultural regions in the Pacific Northwest. She is also active in studying the nitrate contamination of the groundwater in the Lower Yakima Valley.
Mario Blaser	Memorial University of Newfoundland	Aboriginal Studies/ Cultural Anthropology	Indigenous knowledges and Western science in conservation and development projects, indigenous political mobilization, ontological politics, Yshiro of Paraguay, Innu of Labrador. Project: Life Projects Network
Cecil Chabot	Concordia University	First Peoples Studies program	Born and raised in the subarctic Cree community of Moose Factory. His research explores interconnections between Indigenous, Western and other cultures, and their environments, and seeks to bring their traditions into deep dialogue on fundamental human questions.
Colin Chapman	George Washington University	Environmental Anthropology	Conservation biology, primate behavioral ecology, tropical forest regeneration, freshwater fish ecology, plant phenology and distributions, Africa, Uganda.
Philip Dearden	University of Victoria	Natural Resources Geography	Parks and protected areas, incentive-based community conservation, marine, Tanzania, Ghana, Southeast Asia.
Dimitri Della Faille	Université du Québec en Outaouais	Sociology	International development, gender studies, indigenous studies.
Jackson Efitre	Makerere University	Biological sciences	Limnology, freshwater conservation, fisheries management, marine biology, zoology, climate change, capacity building.
Christina Gabbert	University of Göttingen	Integration and Conflict	Conflict resolution, conflict and gender, peace studies, cultural identity, innovation and cultural change, pastoralism, global markets, land use, development, visual anthropology, oral history, northeast Africa, Arbore of the South Omo region, Ethiopia.
Geoffrey Garver	McGill University; Concordia University	Law and Governance; Transdisciplinary environmental studies	Ecological law; degrowth	Garver, Geoffrey. 2020. Ecological Law and the Planetary Crisis: A Legal Guide for Harmony on Earth. London: Routledge. Garver, Geoffrey. 2020. “Promoting Human Connection to Place in Ecological Law.” In L. Westra, K. Bosselmann, and M. Fermeglia (eds), Ecological Integrity in Science and Law. Cham, SW: Springer Nature. Pp. 125-134.
Rebecca Hardin	University of Michigan	Anthropology	Human/wildlife interactions; social and environmental change related to wildlife management, tourism, logging, and mining in equatorial Africa; environmental justice; global health
Andrew Hendry	McGill University	Redpath Museum	Contemporary evolution, ecological speciation, adaptive radiation, gene flow, dispersal, natural selection, marine environments, freshwater.
Elaine Hsiao	Sheffield Institute	International Development	Community conservation, transboundary conservation, conflicts, environmental peacebuilding.
Timothy Ingold	University of Aberdeen	Anthropology	Environment and identity, reindeer herding and husbandry, rural economy, agriculture, migration and rural depopulation, displacement and resettlement, hunter-gatherer and pastoral societies, human-animal relations, Finland, Lapland, northern circumpolar region, Sami.	Ingold, Tim. 2013. “The conical lodge at the centre of the earth-sky world.” In About the hearth: perspectives on home, hearth, and household in the circumpolar North, eds. D. Anderson, R. P. Wishart and V. Vaté. Oxford: Berghahn, pp. 11-28. Ingold, Tim. 2019. “The North is everywhere.” In Knowing from the Indigenous North: Sami approaches to history, politics and belonging, eds. T. H. Eriksen, S. Valkonen and J. Valkonen. Abingdon: Routledge, pp. 108-119.
Jochen Jaeger	Concordia University	Geography	Environmental dynamics, ecological modelling, environmental impact assessments, landscape restoration, nature-population relation, landscape ecology and connectivity, sustainable development.
Timothy Allan Johns	McGill University	Dietetics and Human Nutrition	Agrobiodiversity, ethnobotany, ethnopharmacology, food security, indigenous health, dynamics of social transformations, ecohealth, Canada, Sub-Saharan Africa. Project: Food security, Kenya
Steven Jordan	McGill University	Integrated Studies in Education	Participatory action research, indigenous education, informal learning, gender, migration, Crees of northern Quebec.
Charis Kamphuis	Thompson Rivers University	Law	Transnational resource extraction, Indigenous peoples’ rights, human rights defenders, Latin America, international law, corporate accountability, Canadian economic diplomacy, Canadian extra-territorial responsibility	Kamphuis, Charis, and Leah Gardner. 2019. “Effectiveness Framework for Home-State Non-Judicial Grievance Mechanisms.” In Extractive Industries and Human Rights in an Era of Global Justice: New Ways of Resolving and Preventing Conflicts, edited by A. M. Manirabona, and Y. Vega Cardenas, 75-100. Montreal: LexisNexis. Kamphuis, Charis. 2019. “Building the Case for Home-State Grievance Mechanisms: Law Reform Strategies in the Canadian Resource Justice Movement.” In Human Rights in the Extractive Industries: Transparency, Participation, Resistance, edited by I. Feichtner, and M. Krajewski, 455-510. New-York: Springer.
Justin Kenrick	Forest Peoples Programme	Anthropology	Forest peoples in Africa; Ogiek; Sengwer; land reform; restoration of the commons
Kariuki Kirigia	University of Toronto	School of the Environment and African Studies Centre	Climate change, biodiversity conservation, territories of life, land governance, food security, African epistemologies and pedagogies, and sustainability in Africa
Ashish Kothari	Kalpavriksh	Environment, Development alternatives	Alternatives to development, Direct democracy, Conservation and biodiversity policy, Community rights and autonomy.	Kothari, Ashish, Ariel Salleh, Arturo Escobar, Frederico Demaria, and Alberto Acosta, eds. 2019. Pluriverse: A post-Development Dictionary. New Delhi: Tulika Books, in association with AuthorsUpFront
Julie Lahn	Australia National University	Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research	Morality, economics and sociality, aspiration, class and social mobility, cultures of work, urban indigeneity, indigenous development, social policy, gambling, repatriation, Native title and land rights, museum collecting, Torres Strait, Southeast Aboriginal Australia. Project: Living Well in the Torres Strait
Carole Lévesque	Institut national de la recherche scientifique (INRS)	Urbanization, Culture and Society	Cultural technology, education, oral tradition, nutrition, social change, community integration, urban areas, sustainable development, political autonomy, governance, modernity, knowledge mobilization, knowledge society, Cree, Inuit, Naskapi Innu.
Edward Loure	University Dar es Salaam	Ujamaa-Community Resource Team	Environmental and social justice, resource management, capacity building, ecological sustainability, rural economies, biological diversity, landscape studies, Tanzania.
Marc Mazerolle	Laval University	Forestry	Conservation biology, estimation of demographic parameters, statistics, development of breeding and reintroduction program for the chorus frog. Project	Touihri, M., Séguy, M., Imbeau, L., Mazerolle M. J., Bird, D. M. 2019. Effects of agricultural lands on habitat selection and breeding success of American kestrels in a boreal context. Agriculture, Ecosystems, and Environment 272: 146–154. Chavel, E. E., Imbeau, L., Mazerolle, M. J., Drapeau, P. 2017. Boreal small mammals show evidence of density-dependent patterns with area- sensitivity. Forest Ecology and Management 400: 485–501.
Stéphane McLachlan	University of Manitoba	Environmental Conservation	Risk and adaptation, alternative food systems, food justice, environmental justice, environmental health, participatory video, participatory research, conservation and restoration, and traditional knowledge
Hugo Melgar-Quiñonez	McGill University	Dietetics and Human Nutrition	Food insecurity, hunger, poverty, malnutrition, public health, Latin America.
Charles Menzies	University of British Columbia (UBC)	Anthropology	Anthropological film, natural resource management, political economy, maritime anthropology, archaeology, political economy of social struggle, Western Europe, Coastal British Columbia.
Terry Mitchell	Laurier University	Community Psychology	Intercultural communication; indigenous rights and Free, Prior and Informed Consent (FPIC); community-engaged research
Marama Muru-Lanning	University of Auckland	Anthropology	Cultural specificity of iwi-Māori and their unique sense of place and belonging in New-Zealand; water, environment and indigenous engagement; robotics and infrastructure
Christine Noe	University Dar es Salaam	Geography	Human geography, political economy, tourism, spatiality, conservation, land use.
Catherine Nolin	University of Northern British Columbia (UNBC)	Geography	Social and legal geographies, immigration, forced migration, transnationalism, transnational solidarity, state-sponsored violence, social justice, indigenous rights, Guatemala, Mexico, Canada. Project: Indigenous Engagements with Mining
Ciaran O’Faircheallaigh	Griffith University	Government and International Relations	Interactions of large resource corporations with governments and communities, public policy, negotiation, impact assessment, corporate social responsibility, aboriginal peoples of  Australia.
Neema Pathak-Broome	Kalpavriksh	Environmental Science	Wildlife management, conservation governance, Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities Conserved Territories and Areas (ICCAs)
Catherine Potvin	McGill University	Biology	Tropical forest ecology and conservation, species conservation, global carbon cycle, climate change, land use, forest protection, Panama. Project: Dialogues on Sustainability	Vergara-Asenjo, G., Mateo-Vega, J., Alvarado, A. and Potvin, C. 2017. A participatory approach to elucidate the consequences on REDD+ initiatives: A case study with indigenous communities in Panama. PLoS ONE 12(12): e0189463. Mateo-Vega, J, Potvin, C. 2017. Full and effective participation of indigenous peoples in forest monitoring for REDD+: Trial in Panama’s Darien. Ecosphere 8: e01635.
Aili Pyhälä	University of Helsinki, Faculty of Social Sciences; ICCA Consortium	Environmental Sciences; Critical Development Studies	Sustainable livelihoods; governance; Indigenous knowledge and rights; local communities and protected areas; decolonization and decentralization; cross-cultural perceptions of happiness and wellbeing; permaculture.
Geneviève Reid	Florida International University	Geography	Geospatial technologies in Indigenous contexts, Mapping, Aspirations of the Cree in Northern Quebec, Geospatial Ontologies
Nicholas Reo	Dartmouth College	Native American and Environmental Studies	Indigenous knowledge and ecological stewardship on Indigenous lands.
François Roch	Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM)	Legal sciences	Public international law, international law and development, international organizations law, foreign direct investment, peaceful resolution of international conflicts, bi-disciplinary methodology.
Thierry Rodon	Université Laval	Political Science	Northern political development, Inuit governance, indigenous education, qualitative research, joint management of natural resources, sustainable development, Nunavut, Nunavik, European Nordic countries. Project: EIA and Social Impact of Mining
Iokiñe Rodríguez	School of International Development (DEV). University of East Anglia	Sociology	Environmental conflict transformation in Latin America using participatory action-research. Cultural revitalization, local history, indigenous environmental knowledge, environmental justice, equity and intercultural dialogue.
Maria Sapignoli	Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology	Anthropology	Legal anthropology, national and international institutions, human rights, global governance, social movements, indigenous peoples, environment and conservation
Günther Schlee	Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology	Integration and Conflict	Identity and difference, changes of alliances, kinship and friendship, Germany, Sudan, South Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, Somaliland.
Christa Scholtz	McGill University	Political Science	Indigenous policy and politics, comparative politics, Canadian politics, Canadian and comparative federalism, Canadian constitutionalism
Rachel Sieder	Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social (CIESAS)	Anthropology	Indigenous law, juridification of resource conflicts, legal pluralism, applied legal anthropology, state and violence, Mexico.
Evodia Silva	Universidad Veracruzana	Centre for Tropical Research	Sustainability, environmental governance, adult education, rural development, cultural and natural heritage, cultural and biodiversity, urban-rural sociology, Mexico. Project: Ceremonia Ritual de Voladores
Scott Simon	University of Ottawa	Sociological and Anthropological Studies	Political anthropology, Taiwan’s Indigenous peoples, Indigenous rights, sovereignty, human-animal relations, hunting, ontologies, legal pluralism.
Aman Singh	KRAPAVIS	Conservation and sustainable livelihoods	Community conserved areas, ecology, pastoralism, Rajasthan
Hussein Sosovele	University Dar es Salaam	Resource Assessment	Tourism development, sustainable development, biofuels, environmental and wildlife policy implementation, natural resources, governance.
Stan Stevens	University of Massachusetts	Geoscience	Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities Conserved Areas (ICCAs), Sherpa territory of Khumbu
Leah Temper	McGill University; Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona	Environmental History and Ecological Economics	Ecological conflicts, social metabolism, conflicts related to land use, mining and energy	Temper, Leah, Dylan McGarry, and Lena Weber. 2019. “From academic to political rigour: Insights from the ‘Tarot’ of transgressive research.” Ecological Economics 164: 106379.
Brian Thom	University of Victoria	Anthropology	Indigenous rights and governance, park and heritage collaboration and co-management, indigenous property systems, Coast Salish, British Columbia. Project	Thom, Brian. 2019. “Leveraging International Power: Private Property and the Human Rights of Indigenous Peoples in Canada.” In Scales of Governance and Indigenous Peoples’ Rights, edited by Jennifer Hays and Irène Bellierin, 184-203. London: Routledge. Thom, Brian. 2014. Reframing Indigenous Territories: Private Property, Human Rights and Overlapping Claims. American Indian Culture and Research Journal 38 (4): 3-28.
Annick Thomassin	Australian National University	Anthropology	Indigenous Life Projects, Aboriginal fisheries management, co-management of natural resources, social exclusion policies, Indigenous-driven development
Dale Turner	University of Toronto	Political Science	Social and political philosophy, philosophy of law, early modern political philosophy, indigenous philosophy, federal aboriginal law and policy, Canada, United States. Project: Indigenous Confluence
Karine Vanthuyne	University of Ottawa	Sociology and Anthropology	Political and medical anthropology, violence and conflict, memory and identity, indigenous movements, decolonization struggles, ecotourism, Crees of northern Quebec, Mayans of Guatemala. Project: Indigenous Engagement with Mining
Iván Vargas Roncancio	York University	Law and Society; Anthropology	Earth law; Indigenous Cosmologies and Legalities; Amazonia; Anthropology of Plant-Human Relations; Decolonial Pedagogies.	Vargas Roncancio, I.D. (2024). Law, Humans and Plants in the Andes-Amazon. The Lawness of Life. Routledge. Vargas Roncancio, I.D. (2023). “Law as Relation and the Co-emergence of Beings: Towards a Paradigm Shift in Legal Education for Socioecological Transitions.” In Thomas Giddens and Dundee Luca Siliquini-Cinelli (Eds). Life and the Structures of the Law School: The Biopolitics of Legal Education. Vol. 2 (Resisting the Law School). Routledge. Vargas Roncancio, I.D., & Sterlin, J. Grear A., Boulot, E., (eds) (2021). Posthuman Legalities: New Materialism and Law Beyond the Human.” Cheltenham UK/ Northampton-USA: Edward Elgar Press.
Gro Ween	University of Oslo	Cultural History Museum	Land rights, political processes, natural resource management, cultural heritage, world heritage, national and international management of nature and culture, connections between intervening nature knowledges, self-determination, aboriginal peoples of Australia, Sami of Norway, Yupic of Alaska.
Viviane Weitzner	McGill University	Anthropology	Indigenous and afro-descendent rights, legal pluralism, extractive industries, Colombia
David Western	University of California, San Diego and University of Minnesota; African Conservation Centre (Kenya)	Biology	Interactions and coexistence of humans and wildlife, conservation solutions, savanna ecosystems, climate change, Kenya.
Clint Westman	University of Saskatchewan	Anthropology	Cultural politics of energy, impacts and processes concerning Indigenous peoples in northern Alberta’s energy sector, impacts on habitats and modes of living
Robert Wishart	University of Aberdeen	Anthropology	Oral history, identity, colonial wildlife management regimes, continuities in hunting traditions, ethnohistory, landscape, cultural maintenance, constructions of the environment, Scottish fur traders, Gwich’in and Ojibwe of subarctic Canada.
Victor Corey Wright	University College Utrecht	Social Sciences	Indigenous land rights and conflict, conservation, tourism, livelihoods, East Africa.