Chris Andersen
Biographic Data
| ID | 3693262 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Chris Andersen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Chris |
| FAMILY NAME | Andersen |
| SIGNATURE | ANDERSEN C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Alberta |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1819-6884 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 90 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1969 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Practicing urban Métis heritage sovereignty in Edinburgh, Scotland in (and beyond) the National Museum of Scotland
This article examines the often-overlooked urban presence of the Métis people, one of three Indigenous groups recognized in Canada’s 1982 Constitution Act, outside the geographical boundaries of Canada and/or the Métis homeland. Focusing instead on the UK, the article centers the dynamic interplay between Métis representation within the National Museum of Scotland (NMS) and their historical and contemporary urban presences in Edinburgh. In doing …
Ghosts in the Machine: Possessive Selves, Inert Kinship, and the Potential Whiteness of “Genealogical” Indigeneity
This article explores the recent rise in the use of self-identification as a key element of legitimacy in contemporary claims to Indigeneity. Emphasizing self-identification as a central dynamic of all identity-making in contemporary nation-states, the article argues nonetheless that this element of identity is insufficient for making ethical claims to Indigeneity. Emphasizing instead the importance of ongoing Indigenous relationality (i.e., kins…
Defining a Nation: Métis Nation Building in the Face of Epistemic Injustice
Over the past four decades, Indigenous political claims "in" Canada have come increasingly to assume a nationalist form. Efforts at instilling a national identity play an abundantly clear role in Indigenous nation (re)building: they hold the potential to concretize internal solidarity, mobilize community to pursue long-term goals, and they aid in overcoming a host of collective action problems. However, for national claims to play such a role, it…
Routledge Handbook of Critical Indigenous Studies
Sources and Methods in Indigenous Studies
The colonialism of Canada’s Métis health population dynamics: Caught between bad data and no data at all
Indigenous Statistics: A Quantitative Research Methodology
In the first book ever published on Indigenous quantitative methodologies, Maggie Walter and Chris Andersen open up a major new approach to research across the disciplines and applied fields. While qualitative methods have been rigorously critiqued and reformulated, the population statistics relied on by virtually all research on Indigenous peoples continue to be taken for granted as straightforward, transparent numbers. This book dismantles that…
“Métis”: Race, Recognition, and the Struggle for Indigenous Peoplehood
Ask any Canadian what “Métis” means, and they will likely say “mixed race.” Canadians consider Métis mixed in ways that other indigenous people are not, and the census and courts have premised their recognition of Métis status on this race-based understanding. According to Andersen, Canada got it wrong. Our very preoccupation with mixedness is not natural but stems from more than 150 years of sustained labour on the part of the state and others. …
Vol 3 Issue 1&2 Editor's Introduction
We would like to welcome our readers to volume 3, issues 1 and 2, of aboriginal policy studies.This double issue contains six peer-reviewed articles, seven commentaries, and several book reviews, in addition to two sets of foundational documents.The various contributions to this issue continue to follow the journal's broad scope, which is to publish "original, scholarly, and policy relevant research on issues relevant to Métis, Non-Status Indians…
More Than the Sum of Our Rebellions: Métis Histories Beyond Batoche
Anchored in public memory discussions most recently inaugurated by Pierre Nora's distinction between "sites" and "environments" of memory, this article juxtaposes the official telling of Métis history in national historic sites (in this case, the Batoche National Historic Site in Batoche, Saskatchewan, located in western Canada) with that of more vernacular histories rooted in its postrebellion era. Who are the Métis of the Batoche National Histo…
Indigenous in the City: Contemporary Identities and Cultural Innovation
Underdeveloped identities: The misrecognition of Aboriginality in the Canadian census
After more than a century of enumerating Aboriginality as a form of ethnic ancestry, in 1986 Statistics Canada added an Aboriginal 'self-identification' question to the census, effectively creating two populations: one based on 'Aboriginal ancestry', the other on 'Aboriginal identity'. This paper argues that the legitimacy of the new Aboriginal 'identity' population stems not from its ability to measure Aboriginal identity more accurately than pr…
“I’m Métis, What’s your excuse?”: On the Optics and the Ethics of the Misrecognition of Métis in Canada
Aboriginal Policy Studies - Editor's Introduction
"Moya `Tipimsook("The People Who Aren't Their Own Bosses): Racialization and the Misrecognition of "Métis" In Upper Great Lakes Ethnohistory
Scholars have long noted the central place of racialization in the last five centuries of colonial rule and likewise the crossracial encounters and eventual colonial intimacies regulated in its shadow. In the conceptual terrain posted by these demarcations, this article explores how, in the absence of extensive documentation on historical self-ascriptions, contemporary ethnohistorians examining upper Great Lakes fur trade settlements have attempt…
From nation to population: The racialisation of ‘Métis’ in the Canadian census
Between 1996 and 2001 the ‘Métis population’ of Canada skyrocketed from 204,000 to 292,000, an astonishing and demographically improbable increase of 43 per cent. Most puzzling about this ‘increase’ is not so much the unpersuasive explanations offered by statisticians and others but, more fundamentally, the underlying assumption that such a thing as a ‘Métis population’ exists at all. In contrast, I argue that such an idea constitutes an artifact…
Race and racialization: Essential readings
Preface Race and Progress The Concept of Race The Classification of Races in Europe and North America: 1700-1850 Towards Scientific Racism Antecedents of the Racial Worldview Latent and Manifest Orientalism The West and the Rest: Discourse and Power Does Race' Matter? Transatlantic Perspectives on Racism after 'Race Relations' When Place Becomes Race Is there a 'Neo-Racism'? The Relationship between Racism and anti-Semitism Global Apartheid? Race…
Governing aboriginal justice in Canada: Constructing responsible individuals and communities through ‘tradition’
Critical Indigenous Studies: From Difference to Density
Proponents of the discipline of Native Studies (in its various guises) have attempted to produce a methodologically and theoretically distinctive body of scholarship to justify its existence in the field of academia. Critiquing Duane Champagne's recent article published in a flagship journal for North American Native Studies, I argue that while establishing Native Studies as a discipline has little or nothing to do with securing Native Studies de…
Vol 2 Issue 2 Editor's Introduction
Vol 2 Issue 1 Editor's Introduction
Critical Indigenous Studies: From Difference to Density
Proponents of the discipline of Native Studies (in its various guises) have attempted to produce a methodologically and theoretically distinctive body of scholarship to justify its existence in the field of academia. Critiquing Duane Champagne's recent article published in a flagship journal for North American Native Studies, I argue that while establishing Native Studies as a discipline has little or nothing to do with securing Native Studies de…
From nation to population: The racialisation of ‘Métis’ in the Canadian census
Between 1996 and 2001 the ‘Métis population’ of Canada skyrocketed from 204,000 to 292,000, an astonishing and demographically improbable increase of 43 per cent. Most puzzling about this ‘increase’ is not so much the unpersuasive explanations offered by statisticians and others but, more fundamentally, the underlying assumption that such a thing as a ‘Métis population’ exists at all. In contrast, I argue that such an idea constitutes an artifact…
Indigenous in the City: Contemporary Identities and Cultural Innovation
Indigenous Statistics: A Quantitative Research Methodology
In the first book ever published on Indigenous quantitative methodologies, Maggie Walter and Chris Andersen open up a major new approach to research across the disciplines and applied fields. While qualitative methods have been rigorously critiqued and reformulated, the population statistics relied on by virtually all research on Indigenous peoples continue to be taken for granted as straightforward, transparent numbers. This book dismantles that…
Underdeveloped identities: The misrecognition of Aboriginality in the Canadian census
After more than a century of enumerating Aboriginality as a form of ethnic ancestry, in 1986 Statistics Canada added an Aboriginal 'self-identification' question to the census, effectively creating two populations: one based on 'Aboriginal ancestry', the other on 'Aboriginal identity'. This paper argues that the legitimacy of the new Aboriginal 'identity' population stems not from its ability to measure Aboriginal identity more accurately than pr…
The colonialism of Canada’s Métis health population dynamics: Caught between bad data and no data at all
"Moya `Tipimsook("The People Who Aren't Their Own Bosses): Racialization and the Misrecognition of "Métis" In Upper Great Lakes Ethnohistory
Scholars have long noted the central place of racialization in the last five centuries of colonial rule and likewise the crossracial encounters and eventual colonial intimacies regulated in its shadow. In the conceptual terrain posted by these demarcations, this article explores how, in the absence of extensive documentation on historical self-ascriptions, contemporary ethnohistorians examining upper Great Lakes fur trade settlements have attempt…
Ghosts in the Machine: Possessive Selves, Inert Kinship, and the Potential Whiteness of “Genealogical” Indigeneity
This article explores the recent rise in the use of self-identification as a key element of legitimacy in contemporary claims to Indigeneity. Emphasizing self-identification as a central dynamic of all identity-making in contemporary nation-states, the article argues nonetheless that this element of identity is insufficient for making ethical claims to Indigeneity. Emphasizing instead the importance of ongoing Indigenous relationality (i.e., kins…
Vol 2 Issue 2 Editor's Introduction
Vol 2 Issue 1 Editor's Introduction
Critical Indigenous Studies: From Difference to Density
Proponents of the discipline of Native Studies (in its various guises) have attempted to produce a methodologically and theoretically distinctive body of scholarship to justify its existence in the field of academia. Critiquing Duane Champagne's recent article published in a flagship journal for North American Native Studies, I argue that while establishing Native Studies as a discipline has little or nothing to do with securing Native Studies de…
Governing aboriginal justice in Canada: Constructing responsible individuals and communities through ‘tradition’
Race and racialization: Essential readings
Preface Race and Progress The Concept of Race The Classification of Races in Europe and North America: 1700-1850 Towards Scientific Racism Antecedents of the Racial Worldview Latent and Manifest Orientalism The West and the Rest: Discourse and Power Does Race' Matter? Transatlantic Perspectives on Racism after 'Race Relations' When Place Becomes Race Is there a 'Neo-Racism'? The Relationship between Racism and anti-Semitism Global Apartheid? Race…
From nation to population: The racialisation of ‘Métis’ in the Canadian census
Between 1996 and 2001 the ‘Métis population’ of Canada skyrocketed from 204,000 to 292,000, an astonishing and demographically improbable increase of 43 per cent. Most puzzling about this ‘increase’ is not so much the unpersuasive explanations offered by statisticians and others but, more fundamentally, the underlying assumption that such a thing as a ‘Métis population’ exists at all. In contrast, I argue that such an idea constitutes an artifact…
“I’m Métis, What’s your excuse?”: On the Optics and the Ethics of the Misrecognition of Métis in Canada
Aboriginal Policy Studies - Editor's Introduction
"Moya `Tipimsook("The People Who Aren't Their Own Bosses): Racialization and the Misrecognition of "Métis" In Upper Great Lakes Ethnohistory
Scholars have long noted the central place of racialization in the last five centuries of colonial rule and likewise the crossracial encounters and eventual colonial intimacies regulated in its shadow. In the conceptual terrain posted by these demarcations, this article explores how, in the absence of extensive documentation on historical self-ascriptions, contemporary ethnohistorians examining upper Great Lakes fur trade settlements have attempt…
Indigenous in the City: Contemporary Identities and Cultural Innovation
Underdeveloped identities: The misrecognition of Aboriginality in the Canadian census
After more than a century of enumerating Aboriginality as a form of ethnic ancestry, in 1986 Statistics Canada added an Aboriginal 'self-identification' question to the census, effectively creating two populations: one based on 'Aboriginal ancestry', the other on 'Aboriginal identity'. This paper argues that the legitimacy of the new Aboriginal 'identity' population stems not from its ability to measure Aboriginal identity more accurately than pr…
“Métis”: Race, Recognition, and the Struggle for Indigenous Peoplehood
Ask any Canadian what “Métis” means, and they will likely say “mixed race.” Canadians consider Métis mixed in ways that other indigenous people are not, and the census and courts have premised their recognition of Métis status on this race-based understanding. According to Andersen, Canada got it wrong. Our very preoccupation with mixedness is not natural but stems from more than 150 years of sustained labour on the part of the state and others. …
Vol 3 Issue 1&2 Editor's Introduction
We would like to welcome our readers to volume 3, issues 1 and 2, of aboriginal policy studies.This double issue contains six peer-reviewed articles, seven commentaries, and several book reviews, in addition to two sets of foundational documents.The various contributions to this issue continue to follow the journal's broad scope, which is to publish "original, scholarly, and policy relevant research on issues relevant to Métis, Non-Status Indians…
More Than the Sum of Our Rebellions: Métis Histories Beyond Batoche
Anchored in public memory discussions most recently inaugurated by Pierre Nora's distinction between "sites" and "environments" of memory, this article juxtaposes the official telling of Métis history in national historic sites (in this case, the Batoche National Historic Site in Batoche, Saskatchewan, located in western Canada) with that of more vernacular histories rooted in its postrebellion era. Who are the Métis of the Batoche National Histo…
Sources and Methods in Indigenous Studies
The colonialism of Canada’s Métis health population dynamics: Caught between bad data and no data at all
Indigenous Statistics: A Quantitative Research Methodology
In the first book ever published on Indigenous quantitative methodologies, Maggie Walter and Chris Andersen open up a major new approach to research across the disciplines and applied fields. While qualitative methods have been rigorously critiqued and reformulated, the population statistics relied on by virtually all research on Indigenous peoples continue to be taken for granted as straightforward, transparent numbers. This book dismantles that…
Routledge Handbook of Critical Indigenous Studies
Ghosts in the Machine: Possessive Selves, Inert Kinship, and the Potential Whiteness of “Genealogical” Indigeneity
This article explores the recent rise in the use of self-identification as a key element of legitimacy in contemporary claims to Indigeneity. Emphasizing self-identification as a central dynamic of all identity-making in contemporary nation-states, the article argues nonetheless that this element of identity is insufficient for making ethical claims to Indigeneity. Emphasizing instead the importance of ongoing Indigenous relationality (i.e., kins…
Defining a Nation: Métis Nation Building in the Face of Epistemic Injustice
Over the past four decades, Indigenous political claims "in" Canada have come increasingly to assume a nationalist form. Efforts at instilling a national identity play an abundantly clear role in Indigenous nation (re)building: they hold the potential to concretize internal solidarity, mobilize community to pursue long-term goals, and they aid in overcoming a host of collective action problems. However, for national claims to play such a role, it…
Practicing urban Métis heritage sovereignty in Edinburgh, Scotland in (and beyond) the National Museum of Scotland
This article examines the often-overlooked urban presence of the Métis people, one of three Indigenous groups recognized in Canada’s 1982 Constitution Act, outside the geographical boundaries of Canada and/or the Métis homeland. Focusing instead on the UK, the article centers the dynamic interplay between Métis representation within the National Museum of Scotland (NMS) and their historical and contemporary urban presences in Edinburgh. In doing …
Sociology (11 works) · Indigenous Health, Education, and Rights (8 works) · Political science (8 works) · History (6 works) · Indigenous (6 works) · Anthropology (5 works) · Biology (5 works) · Indigenous Studies and Ecology (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Canadian Identity and History (4 works)