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Indigenous New Media and Critical Digital Humanities
A history of Indigenous new media and digital sovereignty and its intersections with critical digital humanities.
Recoding Relations: Episode 2, Indigeneity in DH
Listen to the episode here In Episode 2 we explore what Indigeneity might mean within the digital humanities. We listen to pieces by Jordan Abel, Michelle Nahanee, and Maize Longboat about their Indigeneity and how that manifests in the work they do. Jordan touches on his back story and how that inspired the creation of […]
Love and Reconciliation Between Being and Non-Being
Belcourt’s inaugural poetry collection, This World is a Wound, which won the 2018 Griffin Poetry Prize, is a profound and probing explication of (non)existence for queer Indigenous bodies in the violent wake of settler colonialism: “colonialism broke us,” Belcourt writes in this collection, “and we’re still trying to figure out how to love and / […]
Theatre of Regret Now Available in Paperback
The Theatre of Regret: Literature, Art, and the Politics of Reconciliation in Canada is now available in paperback via UBC Press. Some of the chapters were developed out of writing that I first shared on this blog. For instance the post “Reconciliation: ‘Like an Echo Turned Inside Out’” is the basis of the book’s conclusion, […]
Theatre of Regret Now Available in Paperback
The Theatre of Regret is now available in paperback from UBC Press.
Job Title Database Developer — Ridington Dane-zaa Archive (RDA) repatriation & digital storytelling project
JOB DESCRIPTION Job Class Graduate Research Assistantship (GRA) Department UBC Institute for Critical Indigenous Studies Duration 4-month, part time position, with possibility of continuance Hours Total of 165 hours, working up to 20 hours a week with some flexibility Pay $25-30/hour depending on experience Start Date July 31, 2021 End Date November 30, 2021 Apply by […]
Representational Immersion and the Settler Gaze
Settler adaptations of Indigenous stories, for print, film, television, and video games, is a highly contested space, with a deep history of appropriation and representational violence (McCall, First Person Plural). In this post, which should be read as a work in progress, I explore how the settler gaze, defined by what David Garneau identifies as […]
Virtual Reality, Visual Sovereignty and the (Hungry) Settler Gaze
It is an understatement to say that this hunger for resources has not abated with time. xwelítem hunger may have begun with gold, but it quickly extended to forests, the water, and of course the land itself. In the twentieth century the hunger has grown for Indigenous artistic practice. Dylan Robinson, Hungry Listening Both my […]
Improving Online Instruction
As a final, “in-class,” assignment, the students in my knowledge dissemination course were charged with brainstorming 3 things they wished instructors would improve on in their online teaching. They were then asked to prototype a knowledge dissemination plan to best get that information to professors. They had 20 minutes. With their permission, I am […]
#CovidCampus
Dear Colleagues, This is a short post summarizing some of the research I have done over the past few days in preparation to move my UBC classes online. I owe a debt of gratitude to all of the generous scholars who have posted materials on Twitter and elsewhere–most specifically Jacqueline Wernimont and Cathy N. Davidson […]
Novel Alliances 