Warren Cariou
Biographic Data
| ID | 1356491 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Warren Cariou |
| GIVEN NAMES | Warren |
| FAMILY NAME | Cariou |
| SIGNATURE | CARIOU W |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Manitoba |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Tar Remedies
This two-part essay turns to the landscapes of bitumen mining in the Athabasca tar sands in western Canada. Despite the environmental costs of the tar sands mining process, the Canadian state remains invested in oil extraction in the tar sands. Starting from the premise that the extraction and burning of this bitumen was and is not inevitable, this dialogue locates hazardous hope in the landscapes of the Athabasca region. To do so, the first sect…
Terristory: Land and Language in the Indigenous Short Story – Oral and Written
This paper examines the relationship between land and narrative in oral and written short stories by Indigenous artists of Turtle Island. It argues that certain Indigenous stories should be understood as inseparable from particular locations in the writer’s or teller’s traditional territory. The unity of story and place in these works is a powerful source of Indigenous sovereignty and an inspiration for contemporary Indigenous resurgence
Portfolio: Petrographs
Sweetgrass Stories: Listening for Animate Land
This article examines Indigenous stories that reveal how the land communicates to humans through medicinal plants. The intention is to address a blind spot in new materialist theory, which Zoe Todd has criticized for its lack of attention to Indigenous forms and practices of relational materialism. The main focus of this essay is Indigenous narratives about the sacred plant sweetgrass (known as ( wihkaskwa in Cree; wiingaashk in Anishinaabemowin)…
The Exhibited Body: The Nineteenth-Century Human Zoo
Life-Telling: Indigenous Oral Autobiography and the Performance of Relation
Focusing on a single autobiographical story by Lakota/Kiowa Apache storyteller Dovie Thomason, this article argues that “life-telling” should be recognized as an important Indigenous art form, one that remains a vital and living practice. By paying attention to the performative elements of storytelling and its Indigenous contexts of ceremony, territory, and community, the article shows how oral autobiography enacts Indigenous sovereignty
Indigenous Men and Masculinities: Legacies, Identities, Regeneration
Indigenous Literature and Other Verbal Arts, Canada (1960–2012)
Sweetgrass Stories: Listening for Animate Land
This article examines Indigenous stories that reveal how the land communicates to humans through medicinal plants. The intention is to address a blind spot in new materialist theory, which Zoe Todd has criticized for its lack of attention to Indigenous forms and practices of relational materialism. The main focus of this essay is Indigenous narratives about the sacred plant sweetgrass (known as ( wihkaskwa in Cree; wiingaashk in Anishinaabemowin)…
Portfolio: Petrographs
The Exhibited Body: The Nineteenth-Century Human Zoo
Indigenous Literature and Other Verbal Arts, Canada (1960–2012)
Indigenous Men and Masculinities: Legacies, Identities, Regeneration
The Exhibited Body: The Nineteenth-Century Human Zoo
Life-Telling: Indigenous Oral Autobiography and the Performance of Relation
Focusing on a single autobiographical story by Lakota/Kiowa Apache storyteller Dovie Thomason, this article argues that “life-telling” should be recognized as an important Indigenous art form, one that remains a vital and living practice. By paying attention to the performative elements of storytelling and its Indigenous contexts of ceremony, territory, and community, the article shows how oral autobiography enacts Indigenous sovereignty
Sweetgrass Stories: Listening for Animate Land
This article examines Indigenous stories that reveal how the land communicates to humans through medicinal plants. The intention is to address a blind spot in new materialist theory, which Zoe Todd has criticized for its lack of attention to Indigenous forms and practices of relational materialism. The main focus of this essay is Indigenous narratives about the sacred plant sweetgrass (known as ( wihkaskwa in Cree; wiingaashk in Anishinaabemowin)…
Terristory: Land and Language in the Indigenous Short Story – Oral and Written
This paper examines the relationship between land and narrative in oral and written short stories by Indigenous artists of Turtle Island. It argues that certain Indigenous stories should be understood as inseparable from particular locations in the writer’s or teller’s traditional territory. The unity of story and place in these works is a powerful source of Indigenous sovereignty and an inspiration for contemporary Indigenous resurgence
Portfolio: Petrographs
Tar Remedies
This two-part essay turns to the landscapes of bitumen mining in the Athabasca tar sands in western Canada. Despite the environmental costs of the tar sands mining process, the Canadian state remains invested in oil extraction in the tar sands. Starting from the premise that the extraction and burning of this bitumen was and is not inevitable, this dialogue locates hazardous hope in the landscapes of the Athabasca region. To do so, the first sect…
Art (6 works) · Indigenous (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Political science (4 works) · Geographies of human-animal interactions (3 works) · History (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Literature (3 works) · Narrative (3 works) · Sovereignty (3 works)