2016 - English - Academic
The Politics of Indigenous Participation Throu…
This article looks at the challenges of Indigenous community participation as a way of fostering inclusion in decision-making actions. Free, Prior and Informed Consent (FPIC) processes in Bolivia are explored where Indigenous communities are informed and consulted before development projects begin. The article explores tensions in current FPIC pro…
2017 - English - Practical
Indigenous Consent and Natural Resource Extrac…
Controversy over the interpretation of FPIC as a "veto" is a major roadblock to Canada's implementation of UNDRIP.
2017 - English - Practical
UNDRIP Implementation: Braiding International,…
This document takes a look at the implementation of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP) in Canada where there is an opportunity to explore and reconceive the relationship between international law, Indigenous peoples’ own laws and Canada’s constitutional narratives.
2017 - English - Technical
The Ruse of Consent and the Anatomy of 'Refusa…
This article takes the notion of ‘refusal’ to be an alternative to recognition politics in settler colonial society. This is argued as alternative with recourse to ethnographic examples that highlight the way in which ‘consent’ operates as a technique of recognition and simultaneous dispossession in historical cases from Indigenous North America a…
2014 - English - Practical
The UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous…
Despite the government of Canada's endorsement of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP), little progress has been made towards its implementation. Canada in a state of crisis.
2014 - English - Practical
Ovide Mercredi Opening Keynote
Rise of the Fourth World Conference June 11-13, 2014. Video shot by Nathan from the Commons Studio at the Working Centre and edited by students of the WLU Indigenous Health and Social Justice Research Group at the Queen Street Commons Studio. In this video, Ovide Mercredi presents the Indigenous experience of colonization and the important of main…