Charles R Menzies
Biographic Data
| ID | 669219 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Charles R Menzies |
| GIVEN NAMES | Charles R |
| FAMILY NAME | Menzies |
| SIGNATURE | MENZIES C R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of British Columbia |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9640-164X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 34 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 72 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 34 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Settler colonialism
Appropriation, Indigenous knowledge, and generative AI
This commentary examines the relationship between First Nations’ knowledge, AI, and cultural appropriation from the perspective of an Indigenous scholar and journal editor. The author highlights the potential conflicts between who controls AI and First Nations sovereignty. For this author, the question of who controls a technology is more important than its inherent nature
“Live right off the Land and Water”
Drawing from community-based research in the author’s home First Nation, Gitxaała, this paper documents an articulation between a First Nations economy and the insertion of capitalism within their territories. Voices of Gitxaała hereditary leaders, matriarchs, and harvesters are prioritized and emphasized. The story that unfolds is of the cultural reliance and persistence of Gitxaała people in the face of economic transition.
Capitalism and Colonialism - Settler and First Nation
Seeing our world in 16
A reflection on making Indigenous films in a colonized world. The author draws on his experience as an Indigenous filmmaker to reflect on the settler's gaze and its implications for an Indigenous film practice. This is accomplished through telling stories and reflecting on films made over several decades
Autoethnography, African studies, and whiteness
Autoethnography can be a powerful analytic tool.It is a form of research that is like autobiography and ethnography rolled into one.It centres the author's experience as a source of data but does so in a way to speak analytically about sociological and cultural features of a community the author is part of.Drawing from one's personal experience can lend power and authority to the author's voice; it can drive a narrative forward; it can provide a …
Will C. VAN DEN Hoonaard, Reluctant Pioneers
Will C. VAN DEN HOONAARD, Reluctant Pioneers: Constraints and Opportunities in an Icelandic Fishing Community, New York: Peter Lang, 1992, 173 pages, U.S. $36.95. Un article de la revue Culture (Volume 13, numéro 2, 1993, p. 5-128) diffusée par la plateforme Érudit
On Strike
This is an autoethnographic account of the 1991 City University of New York (CUNY) strike movement. The authors were some of the key organizers of the strike. Student mobilizations were not narrowly framed to oppose tuition hikes but conceptualized as resistance against austerity measures and the expanding war economy. This article reflects on the intersection of political activism and anthropology through the lens of our experience in the strike…
Engaged Anthropology
Reviewed by: Engaged Anthropology: Politics Beyond the Text by Stuart Kirsch Charles R. Menzies (bio) Stuart Kirsch. Engaged Anthropology: Politics Beyond the Text. Oakland: University of California Press, 2018. A great many anthropologists believe their practice and their discipline is inherently "engaged." They see themselves as "mobilizing anthropology for constructive interventions into politics" (Kirsch 2018, 1). Few however take the time to…
Sea Legs
This article is an autoethnographic account of growing up and learning to labor on a commercial fishboat. It explores the intersection of labor and masculinity in British Columbia's fishing industry of the 20th and 21st centuries
All that old crap”
Oil, Energy, and Anthropological Collaboration on the Northwest Coast of Canada
A veritable gold rush of oil and gas exploration and export development is washing along the coast of western Canada. This paper explores the contemporary setting and possibilities for collaborative research with Indigenous communities in the face of large-scale corporate interventions and the history of colonization. Drawing upon two decades of research and close collaboration with Indigenous communities on the North Coast of British Columbia, M…
Introduction
Standing on the Shore with Saaban
Butterflies, Anthropologies, and Ethnographic Field Schools
Butterflies, Anthropologies, and Ethnographic Field Schools:A Reply to Wallace and Hyatt Charles R. Menzies (bio) The butterflies—people from outside—are now part of our world. The first contact between butterflies and First Nations actually happened in our area. Our old people saw those big ships coming. At first they thought it was a monster actually coming over. But then they saw these are new people from far away. Some of the names that we ca…
Collaborative Service Learning and Anthropology with Gitxaała Nation
Collaborative Service Learning and Anthropology with Gitxaała Nation Charles R. Menzies (bio) and Caroline F. Butler (bio) Early ethnographic field schools used the "field" of indigenous communities as a laboratory. Today's schools, like our program at the University of British Columbia (UBC), are more likely to involve collaboration with an indigenous community or organization and to be based upon principles of service learning (S. Beck 2006; Ir…
Society for the Anthropology of Work
Returning to Selective Fishing through Indigenous Fisheries Knowledge
Returning to Selective Fishing through Indigenous Fisheries KnowledgeThe Example of K'moda, Gitxaała Territory Charles R. Menzies (bio) and Caroline F. Butler (bio) The historical abundance of salmon along the west coast of North America has been significantly reduced during the last two centuries of industrial harvest. Commercial fisheries from California to Alaska and points in between have faced clearly documented restrictions on fishing effor…
Towards a Class-Struggle Anthropology
history of all hitherto existing societies is the history of class struggles.- Karl Marx and Frederick Engels, The Communist ManifestoThe philosophers have only interpreted the world in various ways; the point, however, is to change it.- Karl Marx, Theses on FeuerrbachFor Marx social class is at the centre of understanding and organizing social change. As interpreted by Lenin the working class, organized by its politically advanced vanguard, cons…
Renouveler la vision
Work First! Then Eat - Skipper/Crew Relations on a French Fishing Boat
Working in the Woods
In the context of contemporary treaty making and recent Euro-Canadian court decisions reaffirming Aboriginal rights and title, it is more important than ever before to understand the pivotal role played by First Nations in the development of British Columbia's resource-based economy. 1 Unfortunately, the dominant narratives of North America's settler states continue to ignore the role of First Nations as workers and their participation in buildin…
Us and Them
Co-operative forms of enterprise are often held up as a progressive, moderate alternative to the privations of the capitalist market economy. This paper considers the Prince Rupert Fishermen's Co-op and its relations with organized labour in the north of British Columbia. The paper describes a contradiction within the co-op based on the possibilities of social ownership within a market economy. Through a discussion of the escalating labour confli…
The Stories People Tell
This paper explores the social dissonance between the stories told by women from fishing families and those told about them in the Bigouden region of Brittany, France. In this paper I draw upon stories told by and about women collected in the course of ethnographic research in the fishing communities of this region since 1992. Women from local fishing households tell stories that emphasize the importance of women in the local economy and that hig…
Out of the Woods
Standing on the Shore with Saaban
Returning to Selective Fishing through Indigenous Fisheries Knowledge
Returning to Selective Fishing through Indigenous Fisheries KnowledgeThe Example of K'moda, Gitxaała Territory Charles R. Menzies (bio) and Caroline F. Butler (bio) The historical abundance of salmon along the west coast of North America has been significantly reduced during the last two centuries of industrial harvest. Commercial fisheries from California to Alaska and points in between have faced clearly documented restrictions on fishing effor…
Collaborative Service Learning and Anthropology with Gitxaała Nation
Collaborative Service Learning and Anthropology with Gitxaała Nation Charles R. Menzies (bio) and Caroline F. Butler (bio) Early ethnographic field schools used the "field" of indigenous communities as a laboratory. Today's schools, like our program at the University of British Columbia (UBC), are more likely to involve collaboration with an indigenous community or organization and to be based upon principles of service learning (S. Beck 2006; Ir…
Stories From Home
This article discusses the opposition of Euro‐Canadian fishers to First Nations' land claims in British Columbia, Canada. The author draws upon his personal experience growing up in a fishing family from northern British Columbia to draw out the complexities of this conflict The object of the article is not to convince the reader of the rightness or wrongness of Euro‐Canadian opposition to First Nations' land claims but rather to create a space i…
Obscenities and Fishermen
Work First! Then Eat - Skipper/Crew Relations on a French Fishing Boat
Trying to Make a Living
Class and Identity on the Margins of Industrial Society
In this article the author draws upon his field work in Le Guilvinec, France during a period of crisis in the fishery to explore the creation and reproduction of a Bigouden identity. This identity emerged, replete with cos tume, rituals and festivals, out of an encounter between a metropolitan-driven industrial capitalism and a local, essentially non-capitalist, social formation. Here two aspects of how the local is integrated into and/or articul…
Working Class Consciousness And Everyday Life Aboard A Commercial Fishing Vessel
On Strike
This is an autoethnographic account of the 1991 City University of New York (CUNY) strike movement. The authors were some of the key organizers of the strike. Student mobilizations were not narrowly framed to oppose tuition hikes but conceptualized as resistance against austerity measures and the expanding war economy. This article reflects on the intersection of political activism and anthropology through the lens of our experience in the strike…
All that old crap”
Oil, Energy, and Anthropological Collaboration on the Northwest Coast of Canada
A veritable gold rush of oil and gas exploration and export development is washing along the coast of western Canada. This paper explores the contemporary setting and possibilities for collaborative research with Indigenous communities in the face of large-scale corporate interventions and the history of colonization. Drawing upon two decades of research and close collaboration with Indigenous communities on the North Coast of British Columbia, M…
Working in the Woods
In the context of contemporary treaty making and recent Euro-Canadian court decisions reaffirming Aboriginal rights and title, it is more important than ever before to understand the pivotal role played by First Nations in the development of British Columbia's resource-based economy. 1 Unfortunately, the dominant narratives of North America's settler states continue to ignore the role of First Nations as workers and their participation in buildin…
On Permanent Strike
This study examines a community of 'co-operators' in which fishers of disparate social classes are united in a collective project, the Prince Rupert Fishermen's Co-operative Association.s In this fishers' co-operative, crew members - who own nothing but own labour - join skippers in an explicit coalition to defend their business. To describe the member fishers of the PRFCA as a community which transcends class is not to say class relations are un…
Towards a Class-Struggle Anthropology
history of all hitherto existing societies is the history of class struggles.- Karl Marx and Frederick Engels, The Communist ManifestoThe philosophers have only interpreted the world in various ways; the point, however, is to change it.- Karl Marx, Theses on FeuerrbachFor Marx social class is at the centre of understanding and organizing social change. As interpreted by Lenin the working class, organized by its politically advanced vanguard, cons…
Sea Legs
This article is an autoethnographic account of growing up and learning to labor on a commercial fishboat. It explores the intersection of labor and masculinity in British Columbia's fishing industry of the 20th and 21st centuries
Us and Them
Co-operative forms of enterprise are often held up as a progressive, moderate alternative to the privations of the capitalist market economy. This paper considers the Prince Rupert Fishermen's Co-op and its relations with organized labour in the north of British Columbia. The paper describes a contradiction within the co-op based on the possibilities of social ownership within a market economy. Through a discussion of the escalating labour confli…
The Stories People Tell
This paper explores the social dissonance between the stories told by women from fishing families and those told about them in the Bigouden region of Brittany, France. In this paper I draw upon stories told by and about women collected in the course of ethnographic research in the fishing communities of this region since 1992. Women from local fishing households tell stories that emphasize the importance of women in the local economy and that hig…
Out of the Woods
Between the Stateroom and the Foc's'cle
This paper charts the path of one fishing crew's resistance to the attempts of their skipper to force them to comply with his wishes over the course of the fishing season by drawing upon the personal journals of the author, a commercial fisher of twelve years. The struggle, between skipper and crew, capital and labour, manifests itself on fishing vessels in British Columbia in the mundane activities and conversations of everyday life in which cre…
Working Class Consciousness And Everyday Life Aboard A Commercial Fishing Vessel
Obscenities and Fishermen
On Permanent Strike
This study examines a community of 'co-operators' in which fishers of disparate social classes are united in a collective project, the Prince Rupert Fishermen's Co-operative Association.s In this fishers' co-operative, crew members - who own nothing but own labour - join skippers in an explicit coalition to defend their business. To describe the member fishers of the PRFCA as a community which transcends class is not to say class relations are un…
Applied Anthropology
Stories From Home
This article discusses the opposition of Euro‐Canadian fishers to First Nations' land claims in British Columbia, Canada. The author draws upon his personal experience growing up in a fishing family from northern British Columbia to draw out the complexities of this conflict The object of the article is not to convince the reader of the rightness or wrongness of Euro‐Canadian opposition to First Nations' land claims but rather to create a space i…
Class and Identity on the Margins of Industrial Society
In this article the author draws upon his field work in Le Guilvinec, France during a period of crisis in the fishery to explore the creation and reproduction of a Bigouden identity. This identity emerged, replete with cos tume, rituals and festivals, out of an encounter between a metropolitan-driven industrial capitalism and a local, essentially non-capitalist, social formation. Here two aspects of how the local is integrated into and/or articul…
Voices from off Shore
Fishermen are often regarded as the epitome of Western Individualism. Popular culture is replete with references to the romantic and rugged imagery of the fisher poised, bearded and weather-worn, battling the winds and storms of the open seas. Were it only so. As Binkley effectively points out in her pair of monographs, Voices from Off Shore and Risks, Dangers, and Rewards, the world of the commercial fisher is neither romantic nor necessarily de…
Out of the Woods
Trying to Make a Living
Working in the Woods
In the context of contemporary treaty making and recent Euro-Canadian court decisions reaffirming Aboriginal rights and title, it is more important than ever before to understand the pivotal role played by First Nations in the development of British Columbia's resource-based economy. 1 Unfortunately, the dominant narratives of North America's settler states continue to ignore the role of First Nations as workers and their participation in buildin…
Us and Them
Co-operative forms of enterprise are often held up as a progressive, moderate alternative to the privations of the capitalist market economy. This paper considers the Prince Rupert Fishermen's Co-op and its relations with organized labour in the north of British Columbia. The paper describes a contradiction within the co-op based on the possibilities of social ownership within a market economy. Through a discussion of the escalating labour confli…
The Stories People Tell
This paper explores the social dissonance between the stories told by women from fishing families and those told about them in the Bigouden region of Brittany, France. In this paper I draw upon stories told by and about women collected in the course of ethnographic research in the fishing communities of this region since 1992. Women from local fishing households tell stories that emphasize the importance of women in the local economy and that hig…
Work First! Then Eat - Skipper/Crew Relations on a French Fishing Boat
Towards a Class-Struggle Anthropology
history of all hitherto existing societies is the history of class struggles.- Karl Marx and Frederick Engels, The Communist ManifestoThe philosophers have only interpreted the world in various ways; the point, however, is to change it.- Karl Marx, Theses on FeuerrbachFor Marx social class is at the centre of understanding and organizing social change. As interpreted by Lenin the working class, organized by its politically advanced vanguard, cons…
Renouveler la vision
Society for the Anthropology of Work
Returning to Selective Fishing through Indigenous Fisheries Knowledge
Returning to Selective Fishing through Indigenous Fisheries KnowledgeThe Example of K'moda, Gitxaała Territory Charles R. Menzies (bio) and Caroline F. Butler (bio) The historical abundance of salmon along the west coast of North America has been significantly reduced during the last two centuries of industrial harvest. Commercial fisheries from California to Alaska and points in between have faced clearly documented restrictions on fishing effor…
Butterflies, Anthropologies, and Ethnographic Field Schools
Butterflies, Anthropologies, and Ethnographic Field Schools:A Reply to Wallace and Hyatt Charles R. Menzies (bio) The butterflies—people from outside—are now part of our world. The first contact between butterflies and First Nations actually happened in our area. Our old people saw those big ships coming. At first they thought it was a monster actually coming over. But then they saw these are new people from far away. Some of the names that we ca…
Collaborative Service Learning and Anthropology with Gitxaała Nation
Collaborative Service Learning and Anthropology with Gitxaała Nation Charles R. Menzies (bio) and Caroline F. Butler (bio) Early ethnographic field schools used the "field" of indigenous communities as a laboratory. Today's schools, like our program at the University of British Columbia (UBC), are more likely to involve collaboration with an indigenous community or organization and to be based upon principles of service learning (S. Beck 2006; Ir…
Standing on the Shore with Saaban
Introduction
Oil, Energy, and Anthropological Collaboration on the Northwest Coast of Canada
A veritable gold rush of oil and gas exploration and export development is washing along the coast of western Canada. This paper explores the contemporary setting and possibilities for collaborative research with Indigenous communities in the face of large-scale corporate interventions and the history of colonization. Drawing upon two decades of research and close collaboration with Indigenous communities on the North Coast of British Columbia, M…
All that old crap”
Engaged Anthropology
Reviewed by: Engaged Anthropology: Politics Beyond the Text by Stuart Kirsch Charles R. Menzies (bio) Stuart Kirsch. Engaged Anthropology: Politics Beyond the Text. Oakland: University of California Press, 2018. A great many anthropologists believe their practice and their discipline is inherently "engaged." They see themselves as "mobilizing anthropology for constructive interventions into politics" (Kirsch 2018, 1). Few however take the time to…
Sociology (21 works) · Anthropology (11 works) · History (11 works) · Indigenous (10 works) · Political science (10 works) · Indigenous Health, Education, and Rights (9 works) · Law (9 works) · Law (7 works) · Politics (7 works) · Indigenous Studies and Ecology (6 works)