First Nations and Indigneous Studies and Department of Geography

There is a price to keeping Austin weird – a city at the forefront of cultural and creative industries. This book delves into this " other side " of Austin, the cost of being a place for creative economies and hipster activities. The study is edited by Dr. Auyero but written as a collective labour of love.

Forthcoming publication in BJIR

This paper asks how Indigenous ways of being and knowing can become legitimized within western theorizations of ontology, given the ongoing (neo)colonial relations that shape geographic knowledge production. My analysis emerges within my narrative accounts of being a Kwakwaka’wakw scholar in two spaces of knowledge production: a geography conference and a potlatch. Through these stories, I engage with the individual embodied scales at which we reproduce geography as a discipline and reproduce ourselves as geographers. I argue that making ontological shifts in the types of geographic knowledge that is legible within the discipline requires destabilizing how we come to know Indigeneity and what representational strategies are used in engaging with Indigenous ontologies, as differentiated from western ontologies of Indigeneity.

In April 2012, the Institute for intersectionality research and policy hosted a diverse group of Indigenous people on Coast Salish territories for an all day dialogue on themes of intersectionality and indigeneity. This document provides a summary of the discussions and themes from the dialogue.

In this chapter, I examine the erasure of trans and two-spirit people as an ongoing form of colonial violence which is being perpetuated through current conceptualizations of gender as a social determinant of health for Indigenous communities. Given the lack of statistics on health outcomes for trans and two-spirit people, I focus less on statistical pictures of health for Indigenous women, men and two-spirit people and instead attempt to account for the lived realities of trans and two-spirit people, girls, women, boys and men in diversely situated Indigenous communities. Through the development of an Indigenous gender-based analysis, I hope to demonstrate how gender intersects with other health determinants such as geography, age, and education for all our relations, not only women and men, and to advocate for the use of such an analysis at local, national and international scales where social inequities among Indigenous communities are being addressed.

This article examines the emergence of the discourse of "domestic trafficking" of Indigenous girls and women for the purpose of sexual exploitation. Drawing on community-based experience, the author argues that the shift toward the language and framework of "human trafficking" to capture a range of offences and injustices facing Indigenous women is one of many efforts to recategorize violence against Indigenous women as worthy of legal response in the context of ongoing colonial legal violence.