Emilie Cameron
Biographic Data
| ID | 3692643 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Emilie Cameron |
| GIVEN NAMES | Emilie |
| FAMILY NAME | Cameron |
| SIGNATURE | CAMERON E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Carleton University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7999-5017 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 528 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
What does it take to stop a mine? Indigenous interventions and project rejection in Nunavut, Canada
Indigenous groups who oppose extractive projects make use of a range of tactics and strategies, including intervening in impact assessment (IA) processes. This article examines four cases where IA authorities recommended against the development of proposed mines in Nunavut, Canada. By comparing these cases to the assessment of projects recommended for approval, we seek to draw broad conclusions about the different types of interventions that can …
Can Environmental Assessment Protect Caribou? Analysis of EA in Nunavut, Canada, 1999-2019
This paper analyses the environmental assessment of every proposed mining project that has undergone full review through the Nunavut Impact Review Board from 1999 to 2019, with specific emphasis on how impacts to caribou were identified and assessed. Caribou are the most important terrestrial species in Nunavut from a food security, traditional culture, and harvesting perspective, and mining is known to have impacts on caribou habitat, migration …
Critical engagements with “ Climate Change as Class War” —staying in the ring
This paper is a review of Matt Huber's book Climate Change as Class War: Building Socialism on a Warming Planet, emphasizing its value for teaching, its contribution to building a broader climate movement, and questions about class and about the treatment of environmental movements. This paper is part of the SPE Special Theme "Critical Engagements with 'Climate Change as Class War
Far Off Metal River: Inuit Lands, Settler Stories and the Making of the Contemporary Arctic
Emilie Cameron. Vancouver, BC, Canada: University of British Columbia Press. xvi and 296 pp., maps, figures, notes, glossary, biblio graphy, index. $32.95 paper (ISBN 9780774828857); $95.00 cloth (
Far Off Metal River: Inuit Lands, Settler Stories, and the Making of the Contemporary Arctic
Far Off Metal River examines how explorer Samuel Hearne’s account of the alleged 1771 “Bloody Falls massacre” in the Central Arctic has shaped ongoing colonization and economic exploitation of the North. As Emilie Cameron demonstrates, the Arctic has for centuries been treated like a blank page onto which a long line of explorers, missionaries, anthropologists, resource companies, and politicians have inscribed stories that serve their own intere…
Translating Climate Change: Adaptation, Resilience, and Climate Politics in Nunavut, Canada
This article examines the translation of key terms about climate change from English into Inuktitut, considering not only their literal translation but also the broader context within which words make sense. We argue that notions of resilience, adaptation, and climate change itself mean something fundamentally different in Inuktitut than English and that this has implications for climate policy and politics. To the extent that climate change is t…
Impact and Benefit Agreements and the Neoliberalization of Resource Governance and Indigenous-State Relations in Northern Canada
This paper critically interrogates the state’s relation to Impact and Benefit Agreements (IBAs) in Northern Canada. Theorizing IBAs in relation to processes of neoliber-alization sharpens analysis of shifting relations between Indigenous peoples, mining corporations, and the state. We argue that IBAs are functioning as tools for the privatization of the federal duty to consult Indigenous peoples about resource development on their lands, naturali…
Indigeneity and ontology
Access to Care and Impacts of Cancer on Daily Life: Do They Differ for Metropolitan Versus Regional Hematological Cancer Survivors
PURPOSE: Little is known about access to care for hematological cancer patients. This study explored patient experiences of barriers to accessing care and associated financial and social impacts of the disease. Metropolitan versus nonmetropolitan experiences were compared. METHODS: A state-based Australian cancer registry identified adult survivors of hematological cancers (including lymphoma, leukemia and myeloma) diagnosed in the previous 3 yea…
New geographies of story and storytelling
The concept of story draws attention to the relationship between personal experience and expression, and the broader contexts within which such experiences are ordered, performed, interpreted, and disciplined. In the past, particularly through the ‘cultural turn’, geographers were predominantly concerned with the ways in which story and storytelling were implicated in the production of cultural, economic, political, and social power. Today, this …
Participatory and community‐based research, Indigenous geographies, and the spaces of friendship: A critical engagement
Geographic engagement with Indigenous peoples remains inextricably linked to colonialism. Consequently, studying Indigenous geographies is fraught with ethical and political dilemmas. Participatory and community‐based research methods have recently been offered as one solution to address concerns about the politics of gathering, framing, producing, disseminating, and controlling knowledge about Indigenous peoples. In this article, we critically e…
Securing Indigenous politics: A critique of the vulnerability and adaptation approach to the human dimensions of climate change in the Canadian Arctic
Deviant Constructions: How Governments Preserve Colonial Narratives of Addictions and Poor Mental Health to Intervene into the Lives of Indigenous Children and Families in Canada
Summer Stories: (Re)Ordering the Canadian Arctic
Cultural Geographies Essay: Indigenous spectrality and the politics of postcolonial ghost stories
This essay considers the politics of describing Indigenous peoples as ghostly or haunting presences. Focusing on the history of haunting tropes in Canadian cultural production and the recent re-emergence of the spectral Indigenous figure in, among other places, a wilderness park in southwestern British Columbia, I argue that the mobilization of haunting tropes to make sense of contemporary settler-Indigenous relations reinscribes colonial power r…
Exhibit and point of sale: Negotiating commerce and culture at the Vancouver Art Gallery
Drawing on ethnographic research at the Vancouver Art Gallery gift shop, this article considers the role of consumption and commercial activity in a cultural institution. It highlights the slippage between staff members' perceptions of ‘consumer culture’ and the consuming practices of visitors by problematizing competing understandings of the ‘visitor experience’ and analyzing the habitus of the shop staff. I argue that staff members' allegiances…
Securing Indigenous politics: A critique of the vulnerability and adaptation approach to the human dimensions of climate change in the Canadian Arctic
New geographies of story and storytelling
The concept of story draws attention to the relationship between personal experience and expression, and the broader contexts within which such experiences are ordered, performed, interpreted, and disciplined. In the past, particularly through the ‘cultural turn’, geographers were predominantly concerned with the ways in which story and storytelling were implicated in the production of cultural, economic, political, and social power. Today, this …
Participatory and community‐based research, Indigenous geographies, and the spaces of friendship: A critical engagement
Geographic engagement with Indigenous peoples remains inextricably linked to colonialism. Consequently, studying Indigenous geographies is fraught with ethical and political dilemmas. Participatory and community‐based research methods have recently been offered as one solution to address concerns about the politics of gathering, framing, producing, disseminating, and controlling knowledge about Indigenous peoples. In this article, we critically e…
Cultural Geographies Essay: Indigenous spectrality and the politics of postcolonial ghost stories
This essay considers the politics of describing Indigenous peoples as ghostly or haunting presences. Focusing on the history of haunting tropes in Canadian cultural production and the recent re-emergence of the spectral Indigenous figure in, among other places, a wilderness park in southwestern British Columbia, I argue that the mobilization of haunting tropes to make sense of contemporary settler-Indigenous relations reinscribes colonial power r…
Impact and Benefit Agreements and the Neoliberalization of Resource Governance and Indigenous-State Relations in Northern Canada
This paper critically interrogates the state’s relation to Impact and Benefit Agreements (IBAs) in Northern Canada. Theorizing IBAs in relation to processes of neoliber-alization sharpens analysis of shifting relations between Indigenous peoples, mining corporations, and the state. We argue that IBAs are functioning as tools for the privatization of the federal duty to consult Indigenous peoples about resource development on their lands, naturali…
Indigeneity and ontology
Translating Climate Change: Adaptation, Resilience, and Climate Politics in Nunavut, Canada
This article examines the translation of key terms about climate change from English into Inuktitut, considering not only their literal translation but also the broader context within which words make sense. We argue that notions of resilience, adaptation, and climate change itself mean something fundamentally different in Inuktitut than English and that this has implications for climate policy and politics. To the extent that climate change is t…
Exhibit and point of sale: Negotiating commerce and culture at the Vancouver Art Gallery
Drawing on ethnographic research at the Vancouver Art Gallery gift shop, this article considers the role of consumption and commercial activity in a cultural institution. It highlights the slippage between staff members' perceptions of ‘consumer culture’ and the consuming practices of visitors by problematizing competing understandings of the ‘visitor experience’ and analyzing the habitus of the shop staff. I argue that staff members' allegiances…
Critical engagements with “ Climate Change as Class War” —staying in the ring
This paper is a review of Matt Huber's book Climate Change as Class War: Building Socialism on a Warming Planet, emphasizing its value for teaching, its contribution to building a broader climate movement, and questions about class and about the treatment of environmental movements. This paper is part of the SPE Special Theme "Critical Engagements with 'Climate Change as Class War
Summer Stories: (Re)Ordering the Canadian Arctic
Exhibit and point of sale: Negotiating commerce and culture at the Vancouver Art Gallery
Drawing on ethnographic research at the Vancouver Art Gallery gift shop, this article considers the role of consumption and commercial activity in a cultural institution. It highlights the slippage between staff members' perceptions of ‘consumer culture’ and the consuming practices of visitors by problematizing competing understandings of the ‘visitor experience’ and analyzing the habitus of the shop staff. I argue that staff members' allegiances…
Cultural Geographies Essay: Indigenous spectrality and the politics of postcolonial ghost stories
This essay considers the politics of describing Indigenous peoples as ghostly or haunting presences. Focusing on the history of haunting tropes in Canadian cultural production and the recent re-emergence of the spectral Indigenous figure in, among other places, a wilderness park in southwestern British Columbia, I argue that the mobilization of haunting tropes to make sense of contemporary settler-Indigenous relations reinscribes colonial power r…
Deviant Constructions: How Governments Preserve Colonial Narratives of Addictions and Poor Mental Health to Intervene into the Lives of Indigenous Children and Families in Canada
Summer Stories: (Re)Ordering the Canadian Arctic
Securing Indigenous politics: A critique of the vulnerability and adaptation approach to the human dimensions of climate change in the Canadian Arctic
New geographies of story and storytelling
The concept of story draws attention to the relationship between personal experience and expression, and the broader contexts within which such experiences are ordered, performed, interpreted, and disciplined. In the past, particularly through the ‘cultural turn’, geographers were predominantly concerned with the ways in which story and storytelling were implicated in the production of cultural, economic, political, and social power. Today, this …
Participatory and community‐based research, Indigenous geographies, and the spaces of friendship: A critical engagement
Geographic engagement with Indigenous peoples remains inextricably linked to colonialism. Consequently, studying Indigenous geographies is fraught with ethical and political dilemmas. Participatory and community‐based research methods have recently been offered as one solution to address concerns about the politics of gathering, framing, producing, disseminating, and controlling knowledge about Indigenous peoples. In this article, we critically e…
Access to Care and Impacts of Cancer on Daily Life: Do They Differ for Metropolitan Versus Regional Hematological Cancer Survivors
PURPOSE: Little is known about access to care for hematological cancer patients. This study explored patient experiences of barriers to accessing care and associated financial and social impacts of the disease. Metropolitan versus nonmetropolitan experiences were compared. METHODS: A state-based Australian cancer registry identified adult survivors of hematological cancers (including lymphoma, leukemia and myeloma) diagnosed in the previous 3 yea…
Impact and Benefit Agreements and the Neoliberalization of Resource Governance and Indigenous-State Relations in Northern Canada
This paper critically interrogates the state’s relation to Impact and Benefit Agreements (IBAs) in Northern Canada. Theorizing IBAs in relation to processes of neoliber-alization sharpens analysis of shifting relations between Indigenous peoples, mining corporations, and the state. We argue that IBAs are functioning as tools for the privatization of the federal duty to consult Indigenous peoples about resource development on their lands, naturali…
Indigeneity and ontology
Far Off Metal River: Inuit Lands, Settler Stories, and the Making of the Contemporary Arctic
Far Off Metal River examines how explorer Samuel Hearne’s account of the alleged 1771 “Bloody Falls massacre” in the Central Arctic has shaped ongoing colonization and economic exploitation of the North. As Emilie Cameron demonstrates, the Arctic has for centuries been treated like a blank page onto which a long line of explorers, missionaries, anthropologists, resource companies, and politicians have inscribed stories that serve their own intere…
Translating Climate Change: Adaptation, Resilience, and Climate Politics in Nunavut, Canada
This article examines the translation of key terms about climate change from English into Inuktitut, considering not only their literal translation but also the broader context within which words make sense. We argue that notions of resilience, adaptation, and climate change itself mean something fundamentally different in Inuktitut than English and that this has implications for climate policy and politics. To the extent that climate change is t…
Far Off Metal River: Inuit Lands, Settler Stories and the Making of the Contemporary Arctic
Emilie Cameron. Vancouver, BC, Canada: University of British Columbia Press. xvi and 296 pp., maps, figures, notes, glossary, biblio graphy, index. $32.95 paper (ISBN 9780774828857); $95.00 cloth (
Can Environmental Assessment Protect Caribou? Analysis of EA in Nunavut, Canada, 1999-2019
This paper analyses the environmental assessment of every proposed mining project that has undergone full review through the Nunavut Impact Review Board from 1999 to 2019, with specific emphasis on how impacts to caribou were identified and assessed. Caribou are the most important terrestrial species in Nunavut from a food security, traditional culture, and harvesting perspective, and mining is known to have impacts on caribou habitat, migration …
Critical engagements with “ Climate Change as Class War” —staying in the ring
This paper is a review of Matt Huber's book Climate Change as Class War: Building Socialism on a Warming Planet, emphasizing its value for teaching, its contribution to building a broader climate movement, and questions about class and about the treatment of environmental movements. This paper is part of the SPE Special Theme "Critical Engagements with 'Climate Change as Class War
What does it take to stop a mine? Indigenous interventions and project rejection in Nunavut, Canada
Indigenous groups who oppose extractive projects make use of a range of tactics and strategies, including intervening in impact assessment (IA) processes. This article examines four cases where IA authorities recommended against the development of proposed mines in Nunavut, Canada. By comparing these cases to the assessment of projects recommended for approval, we seek to draw broad conclusions about the different types of interventions that can …
Indigenous Studies and Ecology (12 works) · Political science (9 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Geography (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Politics (6 works) · Arctic and Russian Policy Studies (5 works) · Indigenous (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Anthropology (4 works)