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Author: Aimée Craft ,
Jill Blakley
Publisher: University of Manitoba Press
Imprint: University of Manitoba Press
Weight: 0.333kg
ISBN: 9780887552885
ISBN 10: 0887552889
Pages: 440
Publication Date: 30 April 2022
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Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
"""In Our Backyard illuminates the gaps between the rhetoric and realities of the approval process...and provides an important snapshot well informed by the history of hydro development in Manitoba of Indigenous/settler relations as they occur within the particular context of resource development in Canada."" --Ryan Bowie ""Environmental and Urban Change, York University"""
"""These stories are powerful illuminations of expansive and relationship-based ways of knowing and being. This anthology compellingly illustrates that such philosophies and praxes of interconnection and accountability must animate decisions about the waterways upon which our lives and futures depend.""--Caroline Fidan Tyler Doenmez ""Open Rivers"" ""In Our Backyard illuminates the gaps between the rhetoric and realities of the approval process...and provides an important snapshot well informed by the history of hydro development in Manitoba of Indigenous/settler relations as they occur within the particular context of resource development in Canada."" --Ryan Bowie ""Environmental and Urban Change, York University"""
"""In Our Backyard illuminates the gaps between the rhetoric and realities of the approval process...and provides an important snapshot, well informed by the history of hydro development in Manitoba of Indigenous/Settler relations as they occur within the particular context of resource development in Canada.""--Ryan Bowie ""Environmental and Urban Change, York University"""
"In Our Backyard illuminates the gaps between the rhetoric and realities of the approval process...and provides an important snapshot, well informed by the history of hydro development in Manitoba of Indigenous/Settler relations as they occur within the particular context of resource development in Canada. --Ryan Bowie ""Environmental and Urban Change, York University"""
"""A particular strength of the book is the weaving of stories, testimony, and voices of the community members of Turtle Island, and the sharp contrast that is presented between Indigenous world views and Western and Eurocentric views towards land and water exploitation and development.""--Charlene Victoria Monaco ""Canadian Geographer"" ""These stories are powerful illuminations of expansive and relationship-based ways of knowing and being. This anthology compellingly illustrates that such philosophies and praxes of interconnection and accountability must animate decisions about the waterways upon which our lives and futures depend.""--Caroline Fidan Tyler Doenmez ""Open Rivers"" ""In Our Backyard illuminates the gaps between the rhetoric and realities of the approval process...and provides an important snapshot well informed by the history of hydro development in Manitoba of Indigenous/settler relations as they occur within the particular context of resource development in Canada."" --Ryan Bowie ""Environmental and Urban Change, York University"""
Author Information
Aimée Craft is an Associate Professor at the Faculty Law, University of Ottawa and an Indigenous (Anishinaabe-Métis) lawyer from Manitoba. She holds a University Research Chair Nibi miinawaa aki inaakonigewin: Indigenous governance in relationship with land and water. She prioritizes Indigenous-led and interdisciplinary research, including visual arts and film, and works with many Indigenous nations and communities on Indigenous relationships with and responsibilities to nibi (water). Jill Blakley is an Associate Professor in the Department of Geography and Planning and an associate faculty member of the School of Environment and Sustainability at the University of Saskatchewan. She is an internationally recognized leader in the field of cumulative effects assessment. Her research program centres primarily on energy and transportation mega-projects and their implications for land use, vegetation, wildlife habitat, water and affected local and Indigenous communities.
