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The Department of Anthropology Presents
Overlapping Places and Conflicting Histories: Narratives of Land Use and Legitimacy in Northern Canada
By Dr. Jodie Asselin
In stories of place and people’s connection to it, locals sometimes tell complex, overlapping, and contradictory narratives. Through examining points of tension from research with northern land users, this talk examines the power of nature narratives in creating place, articulating legitimacy, and expressing local sense making. Looking at the multilocal and multivocal nature of place can help re-examine narratives as something beyond ‘false’ or ‘simple’ – but as deliberate articulations expressing some of the multiple positions that individuals have as interlocutors, as well as in defining their own identity. This work draws from research in two separate projects in northern Alberta and the Yukon Territory with agriculturalists and forest users. It examines divergent histories of Yukon forest use, contemporary tensions between bureaucratic landscapes and individual movement, and stories of work on the land as articulations of legitimacy.
January 30
2:00 pm
D634
Everyone Welcome
Contact:
Jenny Oseen | oseejs@uleth.ca | (403) 329-2551