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Abstract:
This talk draws on three years of collaborative research on freshwater fish futures carried out with and through the Institute for Freshwater Fish Futures. It examines the ways our network of collaborators have navigated the impacts of SARS-CoV-2 on our work. Taking seriously our responsibilities to protect immunocompromised communities and colleagues, and honoring our duties to disrupt extractive research paradigms, this talk examines how we center duties of reciprocity, care, and disability justice in our work, and envisions what conservation research can look like when it takes seriously the responsibility to dismantle structural violences and barriers that shape many current environmental research paradigms in so-called Canada today.
Bio:
Red River Métis anthropologist and researcher-artist Dr. Zoe Todd (she/they) blends their creative talents with their knowledge of innovative research methods and Indigenous philosophy to examine and advocate for the complex relationships between Indigenous sovereignty and freshwater fish conservation in Canada. Dr. Todd is a co-founder of both the Institute for Freshwater Fish Futures and the Indigenous Environmental Knowledge Institute (IEKI) at Carleton University. In 2020, Dr. Todd was elected to the Royal Society of Canada’s College of New Scholars. In 2018, they were a Yale Presidential Visiting Fellow. Dr. Todd holds their BSc in Biological Sciences and an MSc in Rural Sociology, both from the University of Alberta, and a PhD in Social Anthropology from the University of Aberdeen.
