About
Racialized Ecologies is a collaborative environmental humanities project examining how three aesthetic modes—the poetic, the documentary, and the speculative—are used by Indigenous, Black, Latinx, and Asian-diasporic writers, filmmakers and artists to grapple with and change debilitating political ecologies in settler-colonial Canada and beyond.
Team
Cheryl Lousley | Lakehead University | Department of English; Department of Interdisciplinary Studies | Primary Investigator
Tania Aguila-Way | University of Toronto | Department of English
Renae Watchman | McMaster University | Indigenous Studies
Anita Girvan | University of British Columbia Okanagan | Faculty of Creative and Critical Studies
Susie O’Brien | McMaster University | Faculty of Humanities; Department of English and Cultural Studies
Nandini Thiyagarajan | Acadia University | Department of English
Joanne Leow | Simon Fraser University | Department of English | Collaborator
Zishad Lak | Trent University | French and Francophone Studies
PhD Student Research Assistants
MA Student Research Assistants
Activities and Publications
- Extra-Canadian Ecologies | ALECC Conference | Wilfrid Laurier University | June 2024
This panel focuses on what might be metaphorically described as the externalities—extra-national side effects—of the production (ecological, cultural, political, technological, economic) of Canada as a settler colonial nation. More broadly, it aims to illuminate… Read more: Extra-Canadian Ecologies | ALECC Conference | Wilfrid Laurier University | June 2024 - What the World Might Look Like by Susie O’Brien
Susie O’Brien’s What the World Might Look Like: Decolonial Stories of Resilience and Refusal (McGill-Queen’s University Press, May 2024) exposes the complexities and limits of resilience and questions the concept of resilience, highlighting how… Read more: What the World Might Look Like by Susie O’Brien - Book Launch: Restoring Relations through Stories by Renae Watchman
When: May 7, 2024 – 10:30 a.m.-12 p.m. Where: McMaster University, ISS Ceremonial Room – LRW 1811 Restoring Relations Through Stories: From Dinétah to Denèndeh (University of Regina Press, May 2024) introduces, synthesizes, and… Read more: Book Launch: Restoring Relations through Stories by Renae Watchman - Suburb Nation | ACCUTE Conference | McGill University | June 2024
If Canada is a suburban nation, what are its suburban stories? What dreams and diasporas land immigrant communities in suburbs? - Ways of Reading Racialized Ecologies | American Comparative Literature Association Seminar | March 14-17, 2024
This three-day panel at the annual meeting of the American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA) is on methods of reading literary texts that illuminate the racialized dimensions of the environment and climate change.
Racialization and writers of colour are at the centre of reading for climate change in Min Hyoung Song’s playful and provocative Climate Lyricism (2022). This roundtable discussion will explore the potentials and limits of Song’s provocative approach to race, ecology, and lyric.