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Jurisdiction Back: Infrastructure beyond Extractivism

Posted on June 16, 2024

Co-Principal Investigators: Dayna Nadine Scott and Heidi Kiiwetinepinesiik Stark Funding: SSHRC Partnership Grant Term: 2021-2027 Resource conflicts and legal uncertainties have dominated the political landscape over the last decade; conflicts over extraction and its infrastructures have intensified, catalyzing a fierce Indigenous resurgence. As the research team conceived this project, hereditary leaders were blocking a pipeline

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A biocultural and interdisciplinary approach to pollinator conservation through ecology, art and pedagogy

Posted on September 1, 2020

Co-Principal Investigators: Sheila Colla and Lisa Myers. Funding: SSHRC New Frontiers in Research Fund. Term: 2020-2023. Dubbed as Finding Flowers, this interdisciplinary research project integrates art, ecology and education. Inspired by the work of the late Mi’kmaq artist Mike MacDonald, Finding Flowers grows, revitalizes and cares for native pollinator gardens as art installations, and as spaces for

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