Vanessa Sloan Morgan
Biographic Data
| ID | 156353 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Vanessa Sloan Morgan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Vanessa Sloan |
| FAMILY NAME | Morgan |
| SIGNATURE | MORGAN V S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Northern British Columbia |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 170 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Mining sick
Rural, remote, northern, and Indigenous communities on Turtle Island are routinely—as Cree Elder Willie Ermine says—pathologized. Social science and health scholarship, including scholarship by geographers, often constructs Indigenous human and physical geographies as unhealthy, diseased, vulnerable, and undergoing extraction. These constructions are not inaccurate: peoples and places beyond urban metropoles on Turtle Island live with higher burd…
Queering environmental regulation
Motivated by thinking at the intersection of queer theory and environmental regulation, the co-authors of this piece pay attention to a stubborn persistence we negotiate when dealing with environmental studies and politics - namely, how environmental regulation functions through discrete timelines with linear notions of progress and through bounded and static conceptions of space. Given the linear and bounded logics of environmental regulation, o…
Resource extraction and intersectoral research
The inaugural gathering of The Environment Community Health Observatory (ECHO) Network is a network of academic, non-profit, and health authority scholars and practitioners committed to understanding and responding to the cumulative impacts of resource extraction. The Network is embedded within multiple jurisdictions and institutional contexts, reflecting the Network’s efforts to work across sectors to address questions arising in communities and…
Why would they care?”
Discussion about local decision making tends to overlook rural and remote youth engagement. Resource extractive industries are, however, fixtures in many rural, remote, northern, and Indigenous communities in settler colonial British Columbia, Canada. These industries shape youths' perceived options for social and economic ventures when they are looking towards their futures. By engaging literature on climate change, settler colonialism, and crit…
Our Journey, Our Choice, Our Future”
In 2011, Huu‐ay‐aht First Nations became one of five Nuu‐chah‐nulth Nations on the west coast of Vancouver Island in Canada to implement the Maa‐nulth Treaty with the Province of British Columbia and Canada. Modern treaties are dense and lengthy legal documents that exhaustively set out the obligations of each signatory party. They are heavily criticised for being unjust extensions of colonialism that limit Indigenous self‐determination and trans…
Moving from rights to responsibilities
State-sanctioned rights in settler state contexts often underwrite the need for individuals to take responsibility for their complicity in power structures. A process that absolves settler responsibility, relegating such obligations to the state alone, becomes normalized through rights that extend from the state, despite settlers themselves playing key roles in Indigenous dispossession. Yet, rights-based approaches in the settler colonial context…
Voices from the landscape
This Is Going to Affect Our Lives”
Canada celebrated its 150th anniversary since Confederation in 2017. At the same time, Canada is also entering an era of reconciliation that emphasizes mutually respectful and just relationships between Indigenous Peoples and the Crown. British Columbia (BC) is uniquely situated socially, politically, and economically as compared to other Canadian provinces, with few historic treaties signed. As a result, provincial, federal, and Indigenous gover…
Going unscripted
Geography and the medical‐health sciences have long histories of engaging the humanities. The last decade has seen for both disciplines a significant growth in theoretical frameworks, pedagogic strategies, and research methods that draw upon visual and literary arts, critical self‐reflection, creative tools and expressions, and even direct engagement or partnership with artists, curators, authors, theatre‐practitioners, and other professionals in…
Anarchy, Geography, Modernity
Can non-Europeans think
A provocative title intended to stand as a question to be explored and a statement on the ossifying tendencies of postcoloniality, Dabashi’s Can non-Europeans Think? grabs readers’ attention the mi
An exploration of Indigenous‐settler relations in the Port Alberni Valley, British Columbia regarding implementation of the 2011 Maa‐nulth Treaty
On April 1, 2011, the Maa‐nulth Treaty went into effect; this treaty involves signatories from five First Nations, the Province of British Columbia, and Canada. Encompassing territories never before ceded—largely in the Port Alberni region of Vancouver Island—these First Nations have reclaimed a degree of self‐determination through the Treaty. Using it as a platform for analysis, this study sought to examine local Indigenous‐settler relations wit…
Framing Indigenous-Settler Relations within British Columbia's Modern Treaty Context
Media plays an integral role in (re)producing our social construction of reality. When viewed in light of Canada's colonial legacy, media's power has undoubtedly been implicated in circumscribing Indigenous peoples and Indigenous-settler relations. Employing a discourse analysis of mainstream media covering the recent (2011) implementation of a comprehensive land claims agreement in British Columbia, this study investigates how media has framed c…
Settlers unsettled
Geography is a product of colonial processes, and in Canada, the exclusion from educational curricula of Indigenous worldviews and their lived realities has produced “geographies of ignorance”. Transformative learning is an approach geographers can use to initiate changes in non-Indigenous student attitudes about Indigenous epistemologies and ontologies. This study explores non-Indigenous student perspectives concerning a field school and digital…
I spent the first year drinking tea
Community-based participatory research (CBPR) is generally understood as a process by which decision-making power and ownership are shared between the researcher and the community involved, bi-directional research capacity and co-learning are promoted, and new knowledge is co-created and disseminated in a manner that is mutually beneficial for those involved. Within the field of Canadian geography we are seeing emerging interest in using CBPR as …
Researchers' Perspectives on Collective/Community Co-Authorship in Community-Based Participatory Indigenous Research
Ethical tensions exist regarding the value and practice of acknowledging Indigenous contributions in community-based participatory research (CBPR). Semistructured phone interviews with researchers documented their perspectives on authorship in the scholarly dissemination of their community-based participatory Indigenous research. Thematic analysis resulted in four key ideas: (1) current practices regarding methods of acknowledging community contr…
I spent the first year drinking tea
Community-based participatory research (CBPR) is generally understood as a process by which decision-making power and ownership are shared between the researcher and the community involved, bi-directional research capacity and co-learning are promoted, and new knowledge is co-created and disseminated in a manner that is mutually beneficial for those involved. Within the field of Canadian geography we are seeing emerging interest in using CBPR as …
Researchers' Perspectives on Collective/Community Co-Authorship in Community-Based Participatory Indigenous Research
Ethical tensions exist regarding the value and practice of acknowledging Indigenous contributions in community-based participatory research (CBPR). Semistructured phone interviews with researchers documented their perspectives on authorship in the scholarly dissemination of their community-based participatory Indigenous research. Thematic analysis resulted in four key ideas: (1) current practices regarding methods of acknowledging community contr…
Going unscripted
Geography and the medical‐health sciences have long histories of engaging the humanities. The last decade has seen for both disciplines a significant growth in theoretical frameworks, pedagogic strategies, and research methods that draw upon visual and literary arts, critical self‐reflection, creative tools and expressions, and even direct engagement or partnership with artists, curators, authors, theatre‐practitioners, and other professionals in…
Settlers unsettled
Geography is a product of colonial processes, and in Canada, the exclusion from educational curricula of Indigenous worldviews and their lived realities has produced “geographies of ignorance”. Transformative learning is an approach geographers can use to initiate changes in non-Indigenous student attitudes about Indigenous epistemologies and ontologies. This study explores non-Indigenous student perspectives concerning a field school and digital…
Voices from the landscape
Mining sick
Rural, remote, northern, and Indigenous communities on Turtle Island are routinely—as Cree Elder Willie Ermine says—pathologized. Social science and health scholarship, including scholarship by geographers, often constructs Indigenous human and physical geographies as unhealthy, diseased, vulnerable, and undergoing extraction. These constructions are not inaccurate: peoples and places beyond urban metropoles on Turtle Island live with higher burd…
Why would they care?”
Discussion about local decision making tends to overlook rural and remote youth engagement. Resource extractive industries are, however, fixtures in many rural, remote, northern, and Indigenous communities in settler colonial British Columbia, Canada. These industries shape youths' perceived options for social and economic ventures when they are looking towards their futures. By engaging literature on climate change, settler colonialism, and crit…
Queering environmental regulation
Motivated by thinking at the intersection of queer theory and environmental regulation, the co-authors of this piece pay attention to a stubborn persistence we negotiate when dealing with environmental studies and politics - namely, how environmental regulation functions through discrete timelines with linear notions of progress and through bounded and static conceptions of space. Given the linear and bounded logics of environmental regulation, o…
This Is Going to Affect Our Lives”
Canada celebrated its 150th anniversary since Confederation in 2017. At the same time, Canada is also entering an era of reconciliation that emphasizes mutually respectful and just relationships between Indigenous Peoples and the Crown. British Columbia (BC) is uniquely situated socially, politically, and economically as compared to other Canadian provinces, with few historic treaties signed. As a result, provincial, federal, and Indigenous gover…
Our Journey, Our Choice, Our Future”
In 2011, Huu‐ay‐aht First Nations became one of five Nuu‐chah‐nulth Nations on the west coast of Vancouver Island in Canada to implement the Maa‐nulth Treaty with the Province of British Columbia and Canada. Modern treaties are dense and lengthy legal documents that exhaustively set out the obligations of each signatory party. They are heavily criticised for being unjust extensions of colonialism that limit Indigenous self‐determination and trans…
An exploration of Indigenous‐settler relations in the Port Alberni Valley, British Columbia regarding implementation of the 2011 Maa‐nulth Treaty
On April 1, 2011, the Maa‐nulth Treaty went into effect; this treaty involves signatories from five First Nations, the Province of British Columbia, and Canada. Encompassing territories never before ceded—largely in the Port Alberni region of Vancouver Island—these First Nations have reclaimed a degree of self‐determination through the Treaty. Using it as a platform for analysis, this study sought to examine local Indigenous‐settler relations wit…
Framing Indigenous-Settler Relations within British Columbia's Modern Treaty Context
Media plays an integral role in (re)producing our social construction of reality. When viewed in light of Canada's colonial legacy, media's power has undoubtedly been implicated in circumscribing Indigenous peoples and Indigenous-settler relations. Employing a discourse analysis of mainstream media covering the recent (2011) implementation of a comprehensive land claims agreement in British Columbia, this study investigates how media has framed c…
Researchers' Perspectives on Collective/Community Co-Authorship in Community-Based Participatory Indigenous Research
Ethical tensions exist regarding the value and practice of acknowledging Indigenous contributions in community-based participatory research (CBPR). Semistructured phone interviews with researchers documented their perspectives on authorship in the scholarly dissemination of their community-based participatory Indigenous research. Thematic analysis resulted in four key ideas: (1) current practices regarding methods of acknowledging community contr…
I spent the first year drinking tea
Community-based participatory research (CBPR) is generally understood as a process by which decision-making power and ownership are shared between the researcher and the community involved, bi-directional research capacity and co-learning are promoted, and new knowledge is co-created and disseminated in a manner that is mutually beneficial for those involved. Within the field of Canadian geography we are seeing emerging interest in using CBPR as …
Settlers unsettled
Geography is a product of colonial processes, and in Canada, the exclusion from educational curricula of Indigenous worldviews and their lived realities has produced “geographies of ignorance”. Transformative learning is an approach geographers can use to initiate changes in non-Indigenous student attitudes about Indigenous epistemologies and ontologies. This study explores non-Indigenous student perspectives concerning a field school and digital…
An exploration of Indigenous‐settler relations in the Port Alberni Valley, British Columbia regarding implementation of the 2011 Maa‐nulth Treaty
On April 1, 2011, the Maa‐nulth Treaty went into effect; this treaty involves signatories from five First Nations, the Province of British Columbia, and Canada. Encompassing territories never before ceded—largely in the Port Alberni region of Vancouver Island—these First Nations have reclaimed a degree of self‐determination through the Treaty. Using it as a platform for analysis, this study sought to examine local Indigenous‐settler relations wit…
Framing Indigenous-Settler Relations within British Columbia's Modern Treaty Context
Media plays an integral role in (re)producing our social construction of reality. When viewed in light of Canada's colonial legacy, media's power has undoubtedly been implicated in circumscribing Indigenous peoples and Indigenous-settler relations. Employing a discourse analysis of mainstream media covering the recent (2011) implementation of a comprehensive land claims agreement in British Columbia, this study investigates how media has framed c…
Anarchy, Geography, Modernity
Can non-Europeans think
A provocative title intended to stand as a question to be explored and a statement on the ossifying tendencies of postcoloniality, Dabashi’s Can non-Europeans Think? grabs readers’ attention the mi
Going unscripted
Geography and the medical‐health sciences have long histories of engaging the humanities. The last decade has seen for both disciplines a significant growth in theoretical frameworks, pedagogic strategies, and research methods that draw upon visual and literary arts, critical self‐reflection, creative tools and expressions, and even direct engagement or partnership with artists, curators, authors, theatre‐practitioners, and other professionals in…
Moving from rights to responsibilities
State-sanctioned rights in settler state contexts often underwrite the need for individuals to take responsibility for their complicity in power structures. A process that absolves settler responsibility, relegating such obligations to the state alone, becomes normalized through rights that extend from the state, despite settlers themselves playing key roles in Indigenous dispossession. Yet, rights-based approaches in the settler colonial context…
Voices from the landscape
This Is Going to Affect Our Lives”
Canada celebrated its 150th anniversary since Confederation in 2017. At the same time, Canada is also entering an era of reconciliation that emphasizes mutually respectful and just relationships between Indigenous Peoples and the Crown. British Columbia (BC) is uniquely situated socially, politically, and economically as compared to other Canadian provinces, with few historic treaties signed. As a result, provincial, federal, and Indigenous gover…
Our Journey, Our Choice, Our Future”
In 2011, Huu‐ay‐aht First Nations became one of five Nuu‐chah‐nulth Nations on the west coast of Vancouver Island in Canada to implement the Maa‐nulth Treaty with the Province of British Columbia and Canada. Modern treaties are dense and lengthy legal documents that exhaustively set out the obligations of each signatory party. They are heavily criticised for being unjust extensions of colonialism that limit Indigenous self‐determination and trans…
Resource extraction and intersectoral research
The inaugural gathering of The Environment Community Health Observatory (ECHO) Network is a network of academic, non-profit, and health authority scholars and practitioners committed to understanding and responding to the cumulative impacts of resource extraction. The Network is embedded within multiple jurisdictions and institutional contexts, reflecting the Network’s efforts to work across sectors to address questions arising in communities and…
Why would they care?”
Discussion about local decision making tends to overlook rural and remote youth engagement. Resource extractive industries are, however, fixtures in many rural, remote, northern, and Indigenous communities in settler colonial British Columbia, Canada. These industries shape youths' perceived options for social and economic ventures when they are looking towards their futures. By engaging literature on climate change, settler colonialism, and crit…
Mining sick
Rural, remote, northern, and Indigenous communities on Turtle Island are routinely—as Cree Elder Willie Ermine says—pathologized. Social science and health scholarship, including scholarship by geographers, often constructs Indigenous human and physical geographies as unhealthy, diseased, vulnerable, and undergoing extraction. These constructions are not inaccurate: peoples and places beyond urban metropoles on Turtle Island live with higher burd…
Queering environmental regulation
Motivated by thinking at the intersection of queer theory and environmental regulation, the co-authors of this piece pay attention to a stubborn persistence we negotiate when dealing with environmental studies and politics - namely, how environmental regulation functions through discrete timelines with linear notions of progress and through bounded and static conceptions of space. Given the linear and bounded logics of environmental regulation, o…
Sociology (13 works) · Political science (12 works) · Law (10 works) · Indigenous (9 works) · Indigenous Health, Education, and Rights (8 works) · Geography (7 works) · Law (5 works) · Archaeology (4 works) · Ecology (4 works) · Indigenous Studies and Ecology (4 works)