Lynne Davis
Biographic Data
| ID | 3595478 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lynne Davis |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lynne |
| FAMILY NAME | Davis |
| SIGNATURE | DAVIS L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Trent University |
| ORCID | 0009-0008-8733-4308 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1987 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Learning and unlearning
Drawing on three cases of long-term Indigenous–settler alliances in Canada, this research investigates the roles and contributions of settlers towards decolonization. As a multidisciplinary team of Indigenous and non-Indigenous scholars, our research goal has been to understand how such alliances endure and change over time, and how they negotiate power dynamics, tensions and changes, within a settler colonial context. Taking a comparative case s…
Pathways of settler decolonization
This special issue of Settler Colonial Studies collects papers presented on the theme of ‘Pathways of Settler Decolonization’ at Canada’s 2015 Congress of Humanities and Social Sciences. The panel
Complicated pathways
The relationship between Indigenous peoples and settler society in Canada has been profoundly shaped and affected by the ongoing and insidious processes of settler colonialism operating within all spheres of mainstream life. Indigenous peoples, grassroots activists, universities, NGOs, church groups and governments have organized many initiatives to educate and provide information to settler Canadians about colonial histories and the contemporary…
The High Stakes of Protecting Indigenous Homelands
In 2000, eight First Nations and the Council of the Haida Nation formed analliance to protect their traditional territories from powerful economic, politicaland ideological interests that were moving to determine the future of coastalBritish Columbia. Their organization, Coastal First Nations (formerly, the TurningPoint Initiative), has become a significant player with governments, industry andenvironmental groups in defining the parameters for t…
Aboriginal-Social Justice Alliances
Despite their growing popularity, alliances and coalitions between Indigenous peoples and other actors fighting for social and environmental justice have been little documented or analyzed. Alliances form often in the context of land and resource disputes, struggles against discrimination and racism, and other areas of life where there are grounds for strategic co-operation. Using grounded theory and resource mobilization theory, this study exami…
Creating Indigenous Spaces in the Academy
An innovative scholarship led by indigenous peoples is emerging worldwide with an emphasis on questioning the knowledge, privileges and paradigms of the Western academy. One of the challenges of supporting new indigenous scholarship within the Western academy is to find ways to engage meaningfully with indigenous knowledge. The Native Studies PhD programme at Trent University, Ontario, Canada, has designed the Bimaadiziwin/Atonhetseri:io option t…
Minding Children or Minding Machines… Women's Labour and Child Care during World War II
The distinction between women's 'public' and 'private' work is an important one, and it is only by comprehending the significance of the private work of women that one is able fully to make sense of the nature and limitations of their public work. These limitations become particularly apparent during a period such as the one under consideration, when attempts to modify the nature of public work encounter directly the constraints related to the pr…
Learning and unlearning
Drawing on three cases of long-term Indigenous–settler alliances in Canada, this research investigates the roles and contributions of settlers towards decolonization. As a multidisciplinary team of Indigenous and non-Indigenous scholars, our research goal has been to understand how such alliances endure and change over time, and how they negotiate power dynamics, tensions and changes, within a settler colonial context. Taking a comparative case s…
Minding Children or Minding Machines… Women's Labour and Child Care during World War II
The distinction between women's 'public' and 'private' work is an important one, and it is only by comprehending the significance of the private work of women that one is able fully to make sense of the nature and limitations of their public work. These limitations become particularly apparent during a period such as the one under consideration, when attempts to modify the nature of public work encounter directly the constraints related to the pr…
Creating Indigenous Spaces in the Academy
An innovative scholarship led by indigenous peoples is emerging worldwide with an emphasis on questioning the knowledge, privileges and paradigms of the Western academy. One of the challenges of supporting new indigenous scholarship within the Western academy is to find ways to engage meaningfully with indigenous knowledge. The Native Studies PhD programme at Trent University, Ontario, Canada, has designed the Bimaadiziwin/Atonhetseri:io option t…
Aboriginal-Social Justice Alliances
Despite their growing popularity, alliances and coalitions between Indigenous peoples and other actors fighting for social and environmental justice have been little documented or analyzed. Alliances form often in the context of land and resource disputes, struggles against discrimination and racism, and other areas of life where there are grounds for strategic co-operation. Using grounded theory and resource mobilization theory, this study exami…
The High Stakes of Protecting Indigenous Homelands
In 2000, eight First Nations and the Council of the Haida Nation formed analliance to protect their traditional territories from powerful economic, politicaland ideological interests that were moving to determine the future of coastalBritish Columbia. Their organization, Coastal First Nations (formerly, the TurningPoint Initiative), has become a significant player with governments, industry andenvironmental groups in defining the parameters for t…
Pathways of settler decolonization
This special issue of Settler Colonial Studies collects papers presented on the theme of ‘Pathways of Settler Decolonization’ at Canada’s 2015 Congress of Humanities and Social Sciences. The panel
Complicated pathways
The relationship between Indigenous peoples and settler society in Canada has been profoundly shaped and affected by the ongoing and insidious processes of settler colonialism operating within all spheres of mainstream life. Indigenous peoples, grassroots activists, universities, NGOs, church groups and governments have organized many initiatives to educate and provide information to settler Canadians about colonial histories and the contemporary…
Learning and unlearning
Drawing on three cases of long-term Indigenous–settler alliances in Canada, this research investigates the roles and contributions of settlers towards decolonization. As a multidisciplinary team of Indigenous and non-Indigenous scholars, our research goal has been to understand how such alliances endure and change over time, and how they negotiate power dynamics, tensions and changes, within a settler colonial context. Taking a comparative case s…
Law (7 works) · Political science (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Indigenous (5 works) · Indigenous Health, Education, and Rights (5 works) · Indigenous Studies and Ecology (5 works) · Politics (4 works) · Ecology (3 works) · Geography (3 works) · Social science (3 works)