Events
Friday, May 23, 2025, 3-5 p.m. EST
Reclaiming Indigenous Jurisdiction in the Climate Crisis: Critical Analyses of ‘Critical’ Infrastructure
This panel draws together critical scholars from law, geography, and anthropology with community partners and land-based practitioners who are working to restore Indigenous jurisdiction in the context of the climate crisis — and are reconceptualizing what constitutes ‘critical infrastructure’ along the way. From standing against pipeline projects, to revitalizing Indigenous systems of land and fire stewardship, to fighting for a radically ‘just transition’ panelists will speak across a diversity of strategies for reclaiming jurisdictional authority and remaking the material and socio- technical infrastructures that sustain collective life on Indigenous lands. But, in addition to material infrastructure, panelists will also explore whether and how legal ‘infrastructures’ can be remade to foreground Indigenous authority in the transition.
This panel will include the following presentations:
- Emma Feltes (York University) and Jocelyn Stacey (Allard School of Law, University of British Columbia), “Right to Burn: Indigenous Rights and Jurisdiction in a Country on Fire”
- Kanahus Manuel (Tiny House Warriors), “Building Anti-colonial Solidarity Infrastructure Networks”
- Dayna Nadine Scott (Osgoode Hall Law School and York University), “Infrastructural (Dis)Entitlement: Coercive Dispossession on the Critical Minerals Frontier”
- Karletta Chief (University of Arizona), “A Just Transition Post-Coal Mining Plan for Black Mesa United: Navajos living within the Peabody Western Coal Company (PWCC) Leasehold Area”
- Robert Clifford (Allard School of Law, University of British Columbia), “The Jurisdictional Entanglements of LandBack”
Time and Date: Friday, May 23, 2025 from 3:00 to 5:00 p.m. EST
Location: Online (Zoom)
Register here: https://yorku.zoom.us/meeting/register/vYZJnzrET8qrSulvXZL6xQ
September 19, 2024 at 2:00 p.m.
The Mining Industry is a Chemical Industry
Featuring: Dr. Sophia Jaworski
With Introduction by Heidi Kiiwetinepinesiik Stark
And Commentary by Dayna Nadine Scott
Date: September 19, 2024
Time: 2:00 p.m. EST
Location: Online (Zoom)
[REGISTER HERE]
“Mining cannot actually offer a transition from fossil fuel extractivism if mining has always and continues to require oil and gas extraction to thrive.”
—Sophia Jaworski
February 15, 2024, 4-6 PM
Settler Colonial Continuities:
The Energy Transition in Indian Country
Speaker: Dr. Andrew Curley, University of Arizona
With a Q & A moderated by Dr. Deborah Cowen
Plus: the launch of a report by Infrastructure Beyond Extractivism, “Greenwashing the Ring of Fire: Indigenous Jurisdiction and Gaps in the EV Battery Supply Chain”
Date: February 15, 2024
Time: 4:00 to 6:00 PM
Location: Helliwell Centre, Osgoode Hall Law School
[REGISTER HERE]
Energy transition is a much discussed topic at the global scale, where we see national representatives meeting in faraway places to discuss reducing total carbon emissions at some indeterminate time in the future. But energy transition also plays out at the “local” scale, or among and between communities who are locked into a regional network of energy production.
Talk will be followed by a reception.
