The Politics of Water: Resource Vs. Rights

Kate Neville, Deborah McGregor, Emma S. Norman and Aimée Craft

The Politics of Water: Resource Vs. Rights

Kate Neville, Deborah McGregor, Emma S. Norman and Aimée Craft

7:30pm

Sunday, October 24, 2021

Authors and experts in candid, live conversation reflect on the topics that matter most during this unprecedented time. Moderated by Kate J. Neville, Associate Professor at the University of Toronto Department of Political Science and the School of the Environment, this illuminating panel discussion, with Deborah McGregor, Emma S. Norman and Aimée Craft will focus on the basic human right to clean water; resource governance in Canada; water access and environmental justice on Indigenous lands; and the political implications surrounding global commodity markets. Tune in each day of the Festival to hear new speakers in critical conversation about the topics shaping today’s world.

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Proudly supported by
Harriet Lewis and Eldon Bennett
Andrew and Valerie Pringle

Panel Discussion

Authors and experts in candid, live conversation reflect on the topics that matter most during this unprecedented time. Moderated by Kate J. Neville, Associate Professor at the University of Toronto Department of Political Science and the School of the Environment, this illuminating panel discussion, with Deborah McGregor, Emma S. Norman and Aimée Craft will focus on the basic human right to clean water; resource governance in Canada; water access and environmental justice on Indigenous lands; and the political implications surrounding global commodity markets. Tune in each day of the Festival to hear new speakers in critical conversation about the topics shaping today’s world.

English captioning is available for this video. Please click the ‘CC’ button in the video toolbar to turn it on.

Proudly supported by
Harriet Lewis and Eldon Bennett
Andrew and Valerie Pringle

Panel Discussion

Featured Authors

Kate Neville
Dr. Kate J. Neville is an Associate Professor in environmental politics at the University of Toronto, cross-appointed to the Department of Political Science and the School of the Environment. She is the author of Fueling Resistance: The Contentious Political Economy of Biofuels and Fracking.

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Deborah McGregor
Professor Deborah McGregor joined York University’s Osgoode Hall law faculty in 2015 as a cross-appointee with the Faculty of Environmental Studies. Professor McGregor’s research has focused on Indigenous knowledge systems and their various applications in diverse contexts including water and environmental and water governance, environmental justice, health and environment and climate justice.

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Emma S. Norman
Dr. Emma S. Norman serves as the Department Chair of the Native Environmental Science program at Northwest Indian College, where she has been on faculty since 2002. Her writing and teaching engage with critical geographies of space, specifically decolonizing borderlands and Indigenous water governance. She is the author of Governing Transboundary Water: Canada, the United States and Indigenous communities, which won the Julian Minghi award for best book in Political Geography in 2015. In her position, Emma works alongside and with Indigenous communities to protect sacred waterways, uphold treaty trust responsibilities and open up space for multiple ways of knowing.

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Aimée Craft
Aimée Craft is an Associate Professor at the Faculty Law, University of Ottawa and an Indigenous (Anishinaabe-Métis) lawyer from Manitoba. Craft is an internationally recognized leader in the area of Indigenous laws, treaties and water. She prioritizes Indigenous-lead and interdisciplinary research, including visual arts and film, co-leads a series of major research grants on Decolonizing Water Governance and works with many Indigenous nations and communities on Indigenous relationships with and responsibilities to nibi (water). In 2021 she was awarded the prestigious Canadian Bar Association President’s Award and was named the Early Career Researcher of the Year Award at the University of Ottawa. Treaty Words, her critically acclaimed children’s book, explains treaty philosophy and relationships.

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7:30pm

Sunday, October 24

What to read

Fueling Resistance: The Contentious Political Economy of Biofuels and Fracking by , Breathing Life into the Stone Fort Treaty by , Treaty Words by , Governing Transboundary Waters by ,
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