Slowey, Gabriella

I have been working in Indigenous communities since 1997. Since that time I have travelled to (or worked in/with) the Miqmaq and Malisset communities of New Brunswick, the Mikisew Cree First Nation of Alberta, the James Bay Cree of northern Quebec, the Ngai Tahu and Tainui of New Zealand, the Vuntut Gwitchin of Old Crow Yukon, the Inuvialuit of Tuktoyaktuk, Northwest Territories and the Delaware of Soutwesthern Ontario. My research concentrates on the political economy of resource extraction, unconventional oil and gas (oil sands and fracking), local resistance, environmental/ecological integrity, democracy, the duty to consult, land claims and self-government. My approach is very much community-based and community-driven research that draws upon broader theoretical concerns of colonialism, reconciliation, staples and democracy.