Wednesday, November 30th, 2016 Toxic Encounters, Settler Logics of Elimination, and the Future of a Continent

DateTimeLocation
Wednesday, November 30, 201610:00AM - 12:00PMSeminar Room 108N, Munk School of Global Affairs
1 Devonshire Place
M5S 3K7

Series

CPHS Seminar Series

Description

Despite four major mine waste spills across Canada in just over a decade, there is little indication from public or private sectors that meaningful steps are being taken to mitigate the risk of future spills. Employing a critical lens that seeks a clearer understanding of ongoing systems of colonialism, my doctoral research examines recent spills in the Central Interior of British Columbia to better understand how for-profit mineral resource extraction is interwoven with concerns for health, human rights, environmental justice, and cultural preservation.

Neil Nunn is a PhD candidate in the Department of Geography and Planning. His work engages political ecology, anti-colonial, posthuman, and affective thought to gain insight into the relationships between industrial waste and ongoing systems of colonialism. Neil has worked in non-profit and public sectors, and has spent over a decade and a half in the reforestation sector, which informs his current research. Outside his professional and academic life, Neil is a dad and enjoys surfing whenever time and proximity to the ocean permits.

Contact

CPHS Administrator (cphs.munk@utoronto.ca)

Speakers

Dr. Shiri Pasternak
Discussant
Dr. Shiri Pasternak is an Assistant Professor at the School for the Study of Canada at Trent University. Prior to arriving at Trent, Dr. Pasternak held a SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellowship at Osgoode Law at York University, and in the Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies at Columbia University. She is a founding member of Barriere Lake Solidarity and an ally in the Defenders of the Land network. Her current research examines Indigenous rights in the natural resource extraction economy. Dr. Pasternak completed her PhD in Geography at the University of Toronto.

Neil Nunn
Speaker
Lupina Senior Doctoral Fellow Neil Nunn is a PhD student in the Department of Geography and Planning and is a Senior Doctoral Fellow with the Comparative Program on Health and Society at the Munk School of Global Affairs. His work engages critical race, environmental justice and anti-colonial frameworks to gain insight into the relationships between industrial waste and ongoing systems of colonial control.

Main Sponsor

Comparative Program on Health and Society

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