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
- Ecologies of De/colonization: Embodied Caribbean Diasporic Perspectives by Anita Girvan and Astrid Vanessa Pérez Piñán
ABSTRACT “In this photo essay, we take readers through ecologies of de/colonization that we engage with in our creative methodology of walking and talking. As academics called upon to do equity, diversity and decolonization… Read more: Ecologies of De/colonization: Embodied Caribbean Diasporic Perspectives by Anita Girvan and Astrid Vanessa Pérez Piñán - Reckoning, Repairing, Reworlding: The (In)humanities, Artistic Practices, and Planetary Crisis—A special issue of the journal Studies in Social Justice
STUDIES IN SOCIAL JUSTICE—NEW ISSUE PUBLISHED (VOL 18, NO. 4) The issue is titled “Vol. 18 No. 4 (2024): Reckoning, Repairing, Reworlding: The (In)humanities, Artistic Practices, and Planetary Crisis” and is guest edited by The… Read more: Reckoning, Repairing, Reworlding: The (In)humanities, Artistic Practices, and Planetary Crisis—A special issue of the journal Studies in Social Justice - “Suburb Nation: Canadian Literature and Suburban Space” Conference Panel | University of Guelph | November 8, 2024
Suburb Nation: Canadian Literature & Suburban Spaces is a series of short papers discussing how Canadian literature reflects and shapes our understanding of suburban life. This in-person event will take place at the University of… Read more: “Suburb Nation: Canadian Literature and Suburban Space” Conference Panel | University of Guelph | November 8, 2024 - Call for Papers: “OVERBURDEN: READING/IMAGINING EXTRA-CANADIAN ECOLOGIES.” A special issue of Canada and Beyond (deadline April 30, 2025).
Call for Papers for a special issue of Canada and Beyond: A Journal of Canadian Literary and Cultural Studies Volume 15 (2026) Guest Editors: Susie O’Brien, Samuel Ikueze and Zahra Tootonsab (Deadline: April 30, 2025)… Read more: Call for Papers: “OVERBURDEN: READING/IMAGINING EXTRA-CANADIAN ECOLOGIES.” A special issue of Canada and Beyond (deadline April 30, 2025). - Extra-Canadian Ecologies | Association for Literature, Environment, and Culture in Canada (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 | Association for Literature, Environment, and Culture in Canada (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 | The Association of Canadian College and University Teachers of English (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 (ACLA) 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. - Roundtable on Min Hyoung Song’s Climate Lyricism | The Association Of Canadian College And University Teachers Of English (ACCUTE) Conference | York University | May 27, 2023
This roundtable discussion will explore the potentials and limits of Song’s provocative approach to race, ecology, and lyric. - Hope and Uncertainty: How We Talk About Ecological Catastrophe | Thursday | November 30, 2023 2:00pm – 6:00pm
Tania Aguila-Way presents at the Interdisciplinary Colloquium at the University of Toronto on Thursday, November 30, 2023, from 2:00 pm to 6:00 pm.