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Nisha Nath (she/her) is a settler woman of colour living in Amiskwacîwâskahikan (Edmonton) and an Assistant Professor of
Equity Studies in the Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies at Athabasca University. She is working on two major projects implicating race, security, gender and citizenship – one on relational securitization in Canada and a second interdisciplinary project with Dr. Willow Allen on the settler-colonial socialization of public sector workers.
In this talk, I take up multi-scalar stories to contest the bounds of increasingly
institutionalized vocabularies of equity, diversity and inclusion (EDI). EDI initiatives
are telling stories about our institutions – origin stories, stories of where we are,
stories of where we will be, and stories of where we can be. The comfort provided by
these stories is belied by the experiences of Black, Indigenous and other people of
colour (BIPOC), raising questions about what stories are being told and for who.
Taking up feminist critical race methodologies and pedagogies of counterstorytelling,
I offer two stories not conventionally situated as being about EDI – the
first, my own narrative and the second, the story of Abdoul Abdi, a former child
refugee whose abandonment was effectively organized by the Canadian state. What
can happen when equity, diversity and inclusion are situated within contexts of
relationality, regulation and extraction? Does EDI feel good to you?
Contact:
Deb Bullock | bullockd@uleth.ca | (403) 329-2225
