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Respect for autonomy and sovereignty of Indigenous and local peoples, not arbitrary protection targets, a key to protecting global biodiversity
December 1, 2022 By: Zoe Todd In June 2022, officials confirmed that the 15th Committee of All Parties (COP15) for the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) is meeting to finalize the latest iteration of the Convention this December in Montreal, Canada. It is anticipated that ongoing pressure will be exerted at COP15 to encourage global…
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Home Story
In March, the Center for Humans and Nature published my short essay on relationships to ‘weaponized fossil kin’ in Alberta for their series “What Stories Does the Land Hold?”. You can read the piece here: https://humansandnature.org/home-story/
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for refusal — kerogenic relations
In late January, Émélie Desrochers-Turgeon, Ozayr Saloojee, and I published a piece for Transmediale’s for refusal series on ‘kerogenic relations’. You can read our piece here: https://202122.transmediale.de/almanac/kerogenic-relations
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Zoe Todd and the Institute For Freshwater Fish Futures featured on Quirks and Quarks (June 2021)
I was featured alongside really great folks in a special feature on Indigenous science. Many thanks to venerable host Bob MacDonald and amazing producer Amanda Buckiewicz for the opportunity! https://www.cbc.ca/radio/quirks/jun-5-shark-extinction-event-caffeine-can-t-keep-you-functional-the-pachyderm-s-proboscis-and-more-1.6052388/how-indigenous-science-could-help-us-with-our-sustainability-and-diversity-crisis-1.6052394
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New article with Dr. Amer Kanngieser
Pleased to announce that our article “From Environmental Case Study to Environmental Kin Study”, part of a special issue edited by Warwick Anderson and Gabriela Soto Laveaga, has just been published in History and Theory: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/hith.12166
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Feature on our bull trout project in Carleton University’s FASSinate magazine
A big thanks to Nick Ward with the Carleton Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences for writing a feature on our New Frontiers in Research Fund project on Bighorn Country bull trout. Fangliang Xu was the photographer for the piece! You can read an online version of the piece here: https://www1.carleton.ca/fass/story/stories-are-for-thinking-the-art-and-research-of-professor-zoe-todd/ You may also contact…
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#ReimagineAAA: Reciprocal Responsibilities to People and Place (virtual presentation for the 2019 AAA meetings in unceded Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh territories)
I am very grateful to have been included in the #ReimagineAAA panel at last week’s American Anthropological Association annual conference in unceded/stolen Indigenous lands in the US and Canada. The virtual panel can be viewed here: https://culanth.org/fieldsights/reimagining-the-annual-meeting-for-an-era-of-radical-climate-change My video presentation Reciprocal Responsibilities to People and Place can be watched here: https://vimeo.com/373533413 The video features footage of trips…
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New forum on Elizabeth Povinelli’s Geontologies
I am so grateful to be included in this recent forum on Elizabeth Povinelli’s Geontologies in Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space. I am exceedingly grateful to Elizabeth R. Johnson and Garnet Kindervater for reaching out, and for their generous leadership in creating the forum. And also grateful to all the contributors for writing such thoughtful pieces!…
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New work by Fluid Boundaries: Lapsus Lima article
Fluid Boundaries published a new article in Lapsus Lima this month: “Water, Water, Everywhere… September 11, 2019 This text is an attempt at an intellectual pathology of the “Fluid Boundaries” project, shortlisted as a finalist for the Canadian Pavilion at the 2020 Venice Architecture Biennale. “Fluid Boundaries” is the project and the multidisciplinary team of anthropologists, geographers, cultural…
Critical Indigenous Fish Philosophy 