Dayna Nadine Scott
Biographic Data
| ID | 1617139 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Dayna Nadine Scott |
| GIVEN NAMES | Dayna Nadine |
| FAMILY NAME | Scott |
| SIGNATURE | SCOTT D N |
| AFFILIATIONS | York University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3992-8642 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 105 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 14 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Infrastructural (Dis)Entitlement
In Ontario’s far north, settler state authorities and extractive firms are engaged in coordinated tactics to gain ground amid a polarization in the positions of Indigenous leadership. Alongside a surging resistance, we also witness a resigned acceptance of critical minerals mining by some First Nations. Drawing on years of community-engaged research, I detail here the contemporary tactics of “infrastructural (dis)entitlement:” in this dynamic, in…
The Power of 'Net Zero'
This article draws on insights gained from many years of community-engaged work alongside Neskantaga First Nation, a small remote Anishinaabe community in Treaty No.9, whose Indigenous homelands are being pressured by the global thirst for critical minerals. In line with recent writing on 'green extractivism', I detail how mining's new legitimacy in the boreal peatlands of the far north of Ontario, Canada, gained strength over the past decade fro…
Infrastructure, Jurisdiction, Extractivism
We would like to acknowledge the grant we received from the New Frontiers in Research Fund to undertake this research and collaboration. This work was funded through an Exploration Grant (1-51-48484) and is titled, “Jurisdiction Back: Infrastructure Beyond Extractivism.”
Extraction Contracting
This article outlines the contemporary dynamics of "consent by contract," argued to be a mode of governance that attempts to define the social, political, ecological, and economic relations regarding the use of Indigenous lands solely through confidential bargaining and agreement-making between private extraction companies and First Nations, but in fact affords the state a key role in setting the terms. Ultimately, it is not only that the settler…
Introduction
Sacrifice Zones” in the Green Energy Economy
The environmental justice movement validates the grassroots struggles of residents of places which Steve Lerner refers to as “sacrifice zones”: low-income and racialized communities shouldering more than their fair share of environmental harms related to pollution, contamination, toxic waste, and heavy industry. On this account, disparities in wealth and power, often inscribed and re-inscribed through social processes of racialization, are unders…
The Environment, Federalism, and the Charter
This chapter reviews the key jurisprudential developments in relation to the division of powers in Canada, exploring how the shared jurisdiction over the “environment” created by sections 91 and 92 of the Constitution has historically shaped and continues to shape environmental law and policy. In addition to this federal-provincial struggle, the chapter considers the current trend towards local regulation of environmental matters according to the…
The abstract subject of the climate migrant
A controversial proposal to build the mammoth ‘Site C’ dam on the Peace River in northwestern Canada offers an opportunity to explore the intersections of climate and migration issues under debate in international environmental governance circles. Site C threatens to flood traditional fishing spots and traplines of Indigenous peoples in the name of the ‘green energy’ economy. We consider how people displaced by renewable energy projects justified…
Wannabe Toxic-Free?' From precautionary consumption to corporeal citizenship
Ecological citizens are increasingly encouraged to adopt ‘precautionary consumption’ – a set of practices aimed at shielding them from the potential health harms of exposures to everyday toxics. The utility and the effects of precautionary consumption in relation to common chemical exposures are investigated. Precautionary consumption is not only of questionable utility, but is fundamentally misguided as an approach for inspiring antitoxics organ…
Pollution et limites des corps
A partir de l’exemple du desequilibre du sex-ratio des membres de la communaute indienne des Aamjiwnaang, une des Premieres Nations du Canada qui aient ete exposees a une pollution chimique chronique, cet article analyse les possibilites, au niveau individuel comme collectif, que le droit canadien relatif aux delits civils peut offrir en matiere de prejudices resultant d’un phenomene de perturbation endocrinienne. Ce cas d’ecole montre a quel poi…
We Are the Monitors Now’
Residents of pollution hotspots often take on projects in ‘citizen science’, or popularepidemiology, in an effort to marshal the data that can prove their experience of the pollution to the relevant authorities. Sometimes these tactics, such as pollution logs or bucket brigades, take advantage of residents’ spatially ordered and finely honed experiential and sensory knowledge of the places they inhabit. But putting that knowledge into conversatio…
Commentary
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Gender-benders”
When Precaution Points Two Ways
Cette étude examine le rôle d'une doctrine juridique émergente, le principe de précaution, dans l'élaboration du plan de gestion du virus du Nil occidental dans la ville de Toronto, en 2003. Elle soulève la question si le principe de précaution, duquel on s'attend généralement à ce qu'il transforme la prise de décision en matière d'environnement et de santé publique, peut servir de feuille de route ou de guide aux agents responsables au travers l…
Sacrifice Zones” in the Green Energy Economy
The environmental justice movement validates the grassroots struggles of residents of places which Steve Lerner refers to as “sacrifice zones”: low-income and racialized communities shouldering more than their fair share of environmental harms related to pollution, contamination, toxic waste, and heavy industry. On this account, disparities in wealth and power, often inscribed and re-inscribed through social processes of racialization, are unders…
Infrastructure, Jurisdiction, Extractivism
We would like to acknowledge the grant we received from the New Frontiers in Research Fund to undertake this research and collaboration. This work was funded through an Exploration Grant (1-51-48484) and is titled, “Jurisdiction Back: Infrastructure Beyond Extractivism.”
We Are the Monitors Now’
Residents of pollution hotspots often take on projects in ‘citizen science’, or popularepidemiology, in an effort to marshal the data that can prove their experience of the pollution to the relevant authorities. Sometimes these tactics, such as pollution logs or bucket brigades, take advantage of residents’ spatially ordered and finely honed experiential and sensory knowledge of the places they inhabit. But putting that knowledge into conversatio…
Wannabe Toxic-Free?' From precautionary consumption to corporeal citizenship
Ecological citizens are increasingly encouraged to adopt ‘precautionary consumption’ – a set of practices aimed at shielding them from the potential health harms of exposures to everyday toxics. The utility and the effects of precautionary consumption in relation to common chemical exposures are investigated. Precautionary consumption is not only of questionable utility, but is fundamentally misguided as an approach for inspiring antitoxics organ…
Gender-benders”
Extraction Contracting
This article outlines the contemporary dynamics of "consent by contract," argued to be a mode of governance that attempts to define the social, political, ecological, and economic relations regarding the use of Indigenous lands solely through confidential bargaining and agreement-making between private extraction companies and First Nations, but in fact affords the state a key role in setting the terms. Ultimately, it is not only that the settler…
Commentary
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Introduction
The abstract subject of the climate migrant
A controversial proposal to build the mammoth ‘Site C’ dam on the Peace River in northwestern Canada offers an opportunity to explore the intersections of climate and migration issues under debate in international environmental governance circles. Site C threatens to flood traditional fishing spots and traplines of Indigenous peoples in the name of the ‘green energy’ economy. We consider how people displaced by renewable energy projects justified…
When Precaution Points Two Ways
Cette étude examine le rôle d'une doctrine juridique émergente, le principe de précaution, dans l'élaboration du plan de gestion du virus du Nil occidental dans la ville de Toronto, en 2003. Elle soulève la question si le principe de précaution, duquel on s'attend généralement à ce qu'il transforme la prise de décision en matière d'environnement et de santé publique, peut servir de feuille de route ou de guide aux agents responsables au travers l…
When Precaution Points Two Ways
Cette étude examine le rôle d'une doctrine juridique émergente, le principe de précaution, dans l'élaboration du plan de gestion du virus du Nil occidental dans la ville de Toronto, en 2003. Elle soulève la question si le principe de précaution, duquel on s'attend généralement à ce qu'il transforme la prise de décision en matière d'environnement et de santé publique, peut servir de feuille de route ou de guide aux agents responsables au travers l…
Gender-benders”
Commentary
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
We Are the Monitors Now’
Residents of pollution hotspots often take on projects in ‘citizen science’, or popularepidemiology, in an effort to marshal the data that can prove their experience of the pollution to the relevant authorities. Sometimes these tactics, such as pollution logs or bucket brigades, take advantage of residents’ spatially ordered and finely honed experiential and sensory knowledge of the places they inhabit. But putting that knowledge into conversatio…
Pollution et limites des corps
A partir de l’exemple du desequilibre du sex-ratio des membres de la communaute indienne des Aamjiwnaang, une des Premieres Nations du Canada qui aient ete exposees a une pollution chimique chronique, cet article analyse les possibilites, au niveau individuel comme collectif, que le droit canadien relatif aux delits civils peut offrir en matiere de prejudices resultant d’un phenomene de perturbation endocrinienne. Ce cas d’ecole montre a quel poi…
The Environment, Federalism, and the Charter
This chapter reviews the key jurisprudential developments in relation to the division of powers in Canada, exploring how the shared jurisdiction over the “environment” created by sections 91 and 92 of the Constitution has historically shaped and continues to shape environmental law and policy. In addition to this federal-provincial struggle, the chapter considers the current trend towards local regulation of environmental matters according to the…
The abstract subject of the climate migrant
A controversial proposal to build the mammoth ‘Site C’ dam on the Peace River in northwestern Canada offers an opportunity to explore the intersections of climate and migration issues under debate in international environmental governance circles. Site C threatens to flood traditional fishing spots and traplines of Indigenous peoples in the name of the ‘green energy’ economy. We consider how people displaced by renewable energy projects justified…
Wannabe Toxic-Free?' From precautionary consumption to corporeal citizenship
Ecological citizens are increasingly encouraged to adopt ‘precautionary consumption’ – a set of practices aimed at shielding them from the potential health harms of exposures to everyday toxics. The utility and the effects of precautionary consumption in relation to common chemical exposures are investigated. Precautionary consumption is not only of questionable utility, but is fundamentally misguided as an approach for inspiring antitoxics organ…
Sacrifice Zones” in the Green Energy Economy
The environmental justice movement validates the grassroots struggles of residents of places which Steve Lerner refers to as “sacrifice zones”: low-income and racialized communities shouldering more than their fair share of environmental harms related to pollution, contamination, toxic waste, and heavy industry. On this account, disparities in wealth and power, often inscribed and re-inscribed through social processes of racialization, are unders…
Extraction Contracting
This article outlines the contemporary dynamics of "consent by contract," argued to be a mode of governance that attempts to define the social, political, ecological, and economic relations regarding the use of Indigenous lands solely through confidential bargaining and agreement-making between private extraction companies and First Nations, but in fact affords the state a key role in setting the terms. Ultimately, it is not only that the settler…
Introduction
Infrastructure, Jurisdiction, Extractivism
We would like to acknowledge the grant we received from the New Frontiers in Research Fund to undertake this research and collaboration. This work was funded through an Exploration Grant (1-51-48484) and is titled, “Jurisdiction Back: Infrastructure Beyond Extractivism.”
Infrastructural (Dis)Entitlement
In Ontario’s far north, settler state authorities and extractive firms are engaged in coordinated tactics to gain ground amid a polarization in the positions of Indigenous leadership. Alongside a surging resistance, we also witness a resigned acceptance of critical minerals mining by some First Nations. Drawing on years of community-engaged research, I detail here the contemporary tactics of “infrastructural (dis)entitlement:” in this dynamic, in…
The Power of 'Net Zero'
This article draws on insights gained from many years of community-engaged work alongside Neskantaga First Nation, a small remote Anishinaabe community in Treaty No.9, whose Indigenous homelands are being pressured by the global thirst for critical minerals. In line with recent writing on 'green extractivism', I detail how mining's new legitimacy in the boreal peatlands of the far north of Ontario, Canada, gained strength over the past decade fro…
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