Sarah Wiebe
Biographic Data
| ID | 4374871 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sarah Wiebe |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sarah |
| FAMILY NAME | Wiebe |
| SIGNATURE | WIEBE S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Victoria |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4592-8983 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 43 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Grounded governance: Cultivating social justice through community-engaged learning with PepakeṈ HÁUTW̱ (Blossoming Place)
By deepening student relationships to local governance systems, they become better equipped to envision and enact the worlds they seek to create. This paper discusses a community-engaged learning initiative facilitated by a University of Victoria instructor that centered on the theme of “Grounded Governance” to anchor student learning about governance and social justice theories, movements and practices. The overall approach draws inspiration fro…
Nuna Aliannaittuk Auttuq —Thawing of the Beautiful Lands of Inuvialuit: Lessons for Sensing Policy
This article, co‐led by an Inuk scholar, Inuvialuit graduate student, and non‐Indigenous academic co‐investigators, explores the implications of climate displacement research for public administration, policy, and governance, with a specific emphasis on sensing in relation to policy. Drawing on diverse forms of evidence, we highlight the role of storytelling and sensory experience in shaping climate policy. We reflect on the outcomes of a unique …
Feminist approaches to environmental politics
Ecofeminism as scholarship and practice continues to polarize, draw criticism, and inspire scholarly works
A paradox of public engagement: The discursive politics of environmental justice in Canada's Chemical Valley
For over a decade, members of the Aamjiwnaang Nation have continued to fight for the recognition and redress of their unique environmental health concerns in a region known as Canada's Chemical Valley. From a critical policy studies lens, this article addresses the discursive policy challenges faced by those who are most affected by the toxic policy assemblage of enduring pollution exposure. In response to the research question: how can the voice…
Reframing a community in crisis: An Intersectional discourse analysis of media responses to state of emergency declarations in Attawapiskat
During the height of the Idle No More movement over the winter of 2012–2013, then Attawapiskat Chief Theresa Spence undertook a ceremonial fast, widely framed by the mainstream Canadian media as a hunger strike. This event responded to a housing related State of Emergency declaration in her community. During the cold Canadian winter, for six-weeks Chief Spence survived on medicinal fish broth and tea while catalyzing unprecedented social mobiliza…
Transforming public policy with engaged scholarship: Better Together
Many people remain invisible in all stages of policymaking processes and are re/harmed by policy decisions made in their absence, even where public engagement has occurred. This lack of meaningful engagement affects those experiencing homelessness, migrant workers, northern and Indigenous women, and others with whom we have collaborated. This article demonstrates the transformative potential of recognising these ‘invisible’ actors as legitimate a…
Currents of crisis: Emergent life beyond the climate emergency across the Pacific
Limits of Nature, Limits of Critical Imagination
The story of Wānanalua: Stranded whales and contested marine sovereignties in Hawai'i
This paper considers how systems of interspecies knowing and care in Hawai'i push against state-supported frameworks of liberal biopolitical governance. In 2015, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) issued a citation two Kanaka Maoli (Native Hawaiian) women under the Marine Mammal Protection Act, for unlawfully "tak[ing] and/or or transporting" a stranded melon-headed whale ("Wānanalua"). In the lawsuit, prosecutors delibera…
Reimagining Attawapiskat: Indigenous youth voices, community engagement and mixed-media storytelling
Widely circulating textual and visual discourses that represent communities shape public perception and awareness. This article discusses a research collaboration between Indigenous and non-Indigenous researchers and artists to reflect on co-creating the Reimagining Attawapiskat project with youth artists. Attawapiskat is an Indigenous community that became the focus of widespread media attention following several State of Emergency declarations …
Sensing policy: Engaging Affected Communities at the Intersections of Environmental Justice and Decolonial Futures
Pushing back against an extractive approach to research to center relationships, this paper draws from ethnographic sensibilities and community vignettes to discuss what academic-activists and political scientists can learn from communities’ situated bodies of knowledge. Tensions emerge when those most directly affected by public policy decisions are excluded from the decision-making process. Consultation leaves many encountering a paradox: their…
Intimacies of global toxins: Exposure & resistance in 'Chemical Valley
Everyday Exposure: Indigenous Mobilization and Environmental Justice in Canada’s Chemical Valley
Near the Ontario-Michigan border, Canada’s densest concentration of chemical manufacturing surrounds the Aamjiwnaang First Nation. Living in the polluted heart of Chemical Valley, Indigenous community members express concern about a declining rate of male births in addition to abnormal incidences of miscarriage, asthma, cancer, and cardiovascular and respiratory illnesses. As this book reveals, Canada’s dark legacy of inflicting harm on Indigenou…
Decolonizing Engagement? Creating a Sense of Community through Collaborative Filmmaking
The visual medium has the potential to be a creative avenue for enhancing awareness, critical thought and social justice. Through the prism of collaborative filmmaking, academic-activists can enrich textual analyses while creating what Jacques Rancière calls a “sense of community” among participants. This article reflects on the process of co-producing an Indigenous youth-driven documentary film, Indian Givers, which is publicly available on YouT…
Producing Bodies and Borders: A review of immigrant medical examinations in Canada
Anxiety about our borders is not a new phenomenon. Distrust of immigrants, external threats, fraud and efforts to secure borders to deflect risky outsiders features prominently in political paranoia today and has since the fortification of state boundaries. This article is concerned with such anxiety and paranoia as it shapes Canadian political discourse, policy and practice in efforts to secure our borders and keep out potential risks. These ris…
Re-Thinking Citizenship: (Un)Healthy Bodies and the Canadian Borde
The Canadian state screens potential citizens based on their physical and mental health in order to assess individuals' likelihood of becoming contributive and productive members of Canadian society. Immigrants are not only screened as potential security risks in a traditional sense, but appear in Canadian discourse as threats to economic stability. These potential citizens are consequently screened and surveilled for health concerns. This essay …
Intimacies of global toxins: Exposure & resistance in 'Chemical Valley
Sensing policy: Engaging Affected Communities at the Intersections of Environmental Justice and Decolonial Futures
Pushing back against an extractive approach to research to center relationships, this paper draws from ethnographic sensibilities and community vignettes to discuss what academic-activists and political scientists can learn from communities’ situated bodies of knowledge. Tensions emerge when those most directly affected by public policy decisions are excluded from the decision-making process. Consultation leaves many encountering a paradox: their…
Transforming public policy with engaged scholarship: Better Together
Many people remain invisible in all stages of policymaking processes and are re/harmed by policy decisions made in their absence, even where public engagement has occurred. This lack of meaningful engagement affects those experiencing homelessness, migrant workers, northern and Indigenous women, and others with whom we have collaborated. This article demonstrates the transformative potential of recognising these ‘invisible’ actors as legitimate a…
Feminist approaches to environmental politics
Ecofeminism as scholarship and practice continues to polarize, draw criticism, and inspire scholarly works
Decolonizing Engagement? Creating a Sense of Community through Collaborative Filmmaking
The visual medium has the potential to be a creative avenue for enhancing awareness, critical thought and social justice. Through the prism of collaborative filmmaking, academic-activists can enrich textual analyses while creating what Jacques Rancière calls a “sense of community” among participants. This article reflects on the process of co-producing an Indigenous youth-driven documentary film, Indian Givers, which is publicly available on YouT…
A paradox of public engagement: The discursive politics of environmental justice in Canada's Chemical Valley
For over a decade, members of the Aamjiwnaang Nation have continued to fight for the recognition and redress of their unique environmental health concerns in a region known as Canada's Chemical Valley. From a critical policy studies lens, this article addresses the discursive policy challenges faced by those who are most affected by the toxic policy assemblage of enduring pollution exposure. In response to the research question: how can the voice…
The story of Wānanalua: Stranded whales and contested marine sovereignties in Hawai'i
This paper considers how systems of interspecies knowing and care in Hawai'i push against state-supported frameworks of liberal biopolitical governance. In 2015, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) issued a citation two Kanaka Maoli (Native Hawaiian) women under the Marine Mammal Protection Act, for unlawfully "tak[ing] and/or or transporting" a stranded melon-headed whale ("Wānanalua"). In the lawsuit, prosecutors delibera…
Re-Thinking Citizenship: (Un)Healthy Bodies and the Canadian Borde
The Canadian state screens potential citizens based on their physical and mental health in order to assess individuals' likelihood of becoming contributive and productive members of Canadian society. Immigrants are not only screened as potential security risks in a traditional sense, but appear in Canadian discourse as threats to economic stability. These potential citizens are consequently screened and surveilled for health concerns. This essay …
Producing Bodies and Borders: A review of immigrant medical examinations in Canada
Anxiety about our borders is not a new phenomenon. Distrust of immigrants, external threats, fraud and efforts to secure borders to deflect risky outsiders features prominently in political paranoia today and has since the fortification of state boundaries. This article is concerned with such anxiety and paranoia as it shapes Canadian political discourse, policy and practice in efforts to secure our borders and keep out potential risks. These ris…
Everyday Exposure: Indigenous Mobilization and Environmental Justice in Canada’s Chemical Valley
Near the Ontario-Michigan border, Canada’s densest concentration of chemical manufacturing surrounds the Aamjiwnaang First Nation. Living in the polluted heart of Chemical Valley, Indigenous community members express concern about a declining rate of male births in addition to abnormal incidences of miscarriage, asthma, cancer, and cardiovascular and respiratory illnesses. As this book reveals, Canada’s dark legacy of inflicting harm on Indigenou…
Decolonizing Engagement? Creating a Sense of Community through Collaborative Filmmaking
The visual medium has the potential to be a creative avenue for enhancing awareness, critical thought and social justice. Through the prism of collaborative filmmaking, academic-activists can enrich textual analyses while creating what Jacques Rancière calls a “sense of community” among participants. This article reflects on the process of co-producing an Indigenous youth-driven documentary film, Indian Givers, which is publicly available on YouT…
Intimacies of global toxins: Exposure & resistance in 'Chemical Valley
Sensing policy: Engaging Affected Communities at the Intersections of Environmental Justice and Decolonial Futures
Pushing back against an extractive approach to research to center relationships, this paper draws from ethnographic sensibilities and community vignettes to discuss what academic-activists and political scientists can learn from communities’ situated bodies of knowledge. Tensions emerge when those most directly affected by public policy decisions are excluded from the decision-making process. Consultation leaves many encountering a paradox: their…
Reimagining Attawapiskat: Indigenous youth voices, community engagement and mixed-media storytelling
Widely circulating textual and visual discourses that represent communities shape public perception and awareness. This article discusses a research collaboration between Indigenous and non-Indigenous researchers and artists to reflect on co-creating the Reimagining Attawapiskat project with youth artists. Attawapiskat is an Indigenous community that became the focus of widespread media attention following several State of Emergency declarations …
Currents of crisis: Emergent life beyond the climate emergency across the Pacific
Limits of Nature, Limits of Critical Imagination
The story of Wānanalua: Stranded whales and contested marine sovereignties in Hawai'i
This paper considers how systems of interspecies knowing and care in Hawai'i push against state-supported frameworks of liberal biopolitical governance. In 2015, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) issued a citation two Kanaka Maoli (Native Hawaiian) women under the Marine Mammal Protection Act, for unlawfully "tak[ing] and/or or transporting" a stranded melon-headed whale ("Wānanalua"). In the lawsuit, prosecutors delibera…
Transforming public policy with engaged scholarship: Better Together
Many people remain invisible in all stages of policymaking processes and are re/harmed by policy decisions made in their absence, even where public engagement has occurred. This lack of meaningful engagement affects those experiencing homelessness, migrant workers, northern and Indigenous women, and others with whom we have collaborated. This article demonstrates the transformative potential of recognising these ‘invisible’ actors as legitimate a…
A paradox of public engagement: The discursive politics of environmental justice in Canada's Chemical Valley
For over a decade, members of the Aamjiwnaang Nation have continued to fight for the recognition and redress of their unique environmental health concerns in a region known as Canada's Chemical Valley. From a critical policy studies lens, this article addresses the discursive policy challenges faced by those who are most affected by the toxic policy assemblage of enduring pollution exposure. In response to the research question: how can the voice…
Reframing a community in crisis: An Intersectional discourse analysis of media responses to state of emergency declarations in Attawapiskat
During the height of the Idle No More movement over the winter of 2012–2013, then Attawapiskat Chief Theresa Spence undertook a ceremonial fast, widely framed by the mainstream Canadian media as a hunger strike. This event responded to a housing related State of Emergency declaration in her community. During the cold Canadian winter, for six-weeks Chief Spence survived on medicinal fish broth and tea while catalyzing unprecedented social mobiliza…
Grounded governance: Cultivating social justice through community-engaged learning with PepakeṈ HÁUTW̱ (Blossoming Place)
By deepening student relationships to local governance systems, they become better equipped to envision and enact the worlds they seek to create. This paper discusses a community-engaged learning initiative facilitated by a University of Victoria instructor that centered on the theme of “Grounded Governance” to anchor student learning about governance and social justice theories, movements and practices. The overall approach draws inspiration fro…
Nuna Aliannaittuk Auttuq —Thawing of the Beautiful Lands of Inuvialuit: Lessons for Sensing Policy
This article, co‐led by an Inuk scholar, Inuvialuit graduate student, and non‐Indigenous academic co‐investigators, explores the implications of climate displacement research for public administration, policy, and governance, with a specific emphasis on sensing in relation to policy. Drawing on diverse forms of evidence, we highlight the role of storytelling and sensory experience in shaping climate policy. We reflect on the outcomes of a unique …
Feminist approaches to environmental politics
Ecofeminism as scholarship and practice continues to polarize, draw criticism, and inspire scholarly works
Political science (13 works) · Sociology (13 works) · Law (9 works) · Law (8 works) · Politics (8 works) · Indigenous (7 works) · Environmental ethics (6 works) · Ecology (4 works) · Environmental justice (4 works) · Geographies of human-animal interactions (4 works)