“Time Immemorial” and Indigenous Rights: A Genealogy and Three Case Studies (Calder , Van der Peet , Tsilhqot'in ) from British Columbia

2013 ◽  
Vol 26 (3) ◽  
pp. 383-411 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lorraine Weir
Keyword(s):  
British Columbia ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Indigenous Rights

scholarly journals Longer distance cycling for interspecies mobility justice in Canada

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicholas Scott
Keyword(s):  
British Columbia ◽  
Nova Scotia ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Active Travel ◽  
Ethnographic Study ◽  
Moral Obligations ◽  
Social Production ◽  
Central Cities ◽  
The Social ◽  
Specific Number

This article explores how longer distance cycling can advance interspecies mobility justice, a theory of (im)mobilities and justice that includes other-than-human persons and habitats as worthy of our positive moral obligations. I argue that longer distance cycling can advance interspecies mobility justice by promoting socially inclusive and ecologically good cycling practices that redress the active travel poverty of marginalized and colonized populations, while replacing rather than augmenting auto roads with active travel routes that help humans respect other species. The article theorizes longer distance cycling not as some specific number of kilometres, but rather as the social production of cycling space across gentrified central cities, struggling inner suburbs, outer exurbs and rural countrysides. To explore this argument my analysis focuses on Canada, an extreme context for longer distance cycling. I offer a comparison of two case studies, situated on the country’s west and east coasts, Vancouver, British Columbia and Halifax, Nova Scotia, drawing on an ongoing ethnographic study of cycling practices and politics in Canada.  

Being Special, Becoming Indigenous: Dilemmas of Special Adat Rights in Indonesia

2011 ◽  
Vol 39 (5) ◽  
pp. 652-673 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adam Tyson
Keyword(s):  
Public Participation ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Indigenous Rights ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Political ◽  
Reform Era ◽  
Political Intervention ◽  
Village Communities ◽  
The One ◽  
Special Rights

Abstract From 1998 onwards Indonesia’s reform era (reformasi) has captured the imagination of growing numbers of observers, experts and scholars. Policies of decentralisation and enhanced public participation projects have reawakened old debates surrounding indigenous rights, power and status. This article examines the dilemma of special rights, particularly those related to the political revival of customs and traditions (adat istiadat). Calls for exigent recognition and redistributive rights for particular groups and ‘unique’ village communities frequently take the form of indirect regulatory negotiations and direct struggles for land. Case studies from Sulawesi are therefore used to examine heavily contested processes of decentralisation and local autonomy, which in many respects enable the revival of local adat. Distinctions are made between static and fluid views of adat, between being special by virtue of birthright on the one hand, and becoming indigenous by way of deliberate political intervention and mobilisation on the other.

scholarly journals Innovative Affordable Housing Strategies for Vancouver

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gavin Duffus
Keyword(s):  
British Columbia ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Affordable Housing ◽  
Housing Prices ◽  
Housing Provision ◽  
Market Conditions ◽  
Innovative Strategies ◽  
Creative Solutions ◽  
The Face ◽  
Beautiful City

Vancouver, British Columbia is a very attractive place to live for many reasons, but the high cost of housing in this beautiful city has become a threat to the future prosperity of the region. As housing prices continue to rise and become less attainable to low and medium income earners, innovative strategies to provide new supply of affordable housing will need to be implemented. The paper outlines a variety of housing solutions that have already had success in the Vancouver area and elsewhere. Case studies are brought together in this document to highlight the potential that combining and replicating successful housing models can have for Vancouver. Through creative solutions and strong partnerships, Vancouver can become a world leader in innovative housing provision in the face of extreme market conditions and land constraints.

scholarly journals Indigenous Influence and Engagement in Mining Permitting in British Columbia, Canada: Lessons for Sweden and Norway?

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christina Allard ◽  
Deborah Curran
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
British Columbia ◽  
Indigenous Rights ◽  
Indigenous Communities ◽  
Legal Framework ◽  
Collaborative Decision Making ◽  
Indigenous Territories ◽  
Legislative Reforms ◽  
United Nations Declaration ◽  
Collaborative Decision

AbstractMine developments in Indigenous territories risk disrupting Indigenous cultures and their economies, including spiraling already high levels of conflict. This is the situation in Canada, Sweden, and Norway, as elsewhere, and is fostered by current state legal framework that reflect historical trajectories, although circumstances are gradually changing. Promising institutional changes have taken place in British Columbia (BC), Canada, with respect to new legislative reforms. Notably, new legislation from 2019 intends to implement the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP) in the province, by promoting consent-based and collaborative decision-making mechanisms. New environmental assessment legislation is another example; this legislation includes early engagement, collaborative decision-making, and Indigenous-led assessments. The article’s aim is, first, to analyze how Indigenous communities can influence and engage in the mining permitting system of BC, and, secondly, to highlight the positive features of the BC system using a comparative lens to identify opportunities for Sweden and Norway regarding mining permitting and Indigenous rights. Applying a legal-scientific and comparative analysis, the article analyzes traditional legal sources. The article concludes that the strong points that the BC regime could offer the two Nordic countries are: the concept of reconciliation, incorporation of UNDRIP, the spectrum of consultation and engagement approaches, and the structure of environmental assessments. All three jurisdictions, however, struggle with balancing mine developments and securing Indigenous authority and influence over land uses in their traditional territories.

scholarly journals Afroperipheral indigeneity in Wayde Compton’s The Outer Harbour

2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 21-37
Author(s):  
Vicent Cucarella-Ramón
Keyword(s):  
British Columbia ◽  
Contact Zone ◽  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
Short Story ◽  
Indigenous Rights ◽  
Indigenous Studies ◽  
Short Story Collection ◽  
Black Canadian ◽  
Story Collection ◽  
The Way

Black Canadian writer Wayde Compton’s short story collection The Outer Harbour (2015) is located in the Afroperiphery of British Columbia which stands as a ‘contact zone’ that enables the alliances between Black and Indigenous peoples and also establishes a fecund ground of possibilities to emphasize the way in which cross-ethnic coalitions and representations reconsider imperial encounters previously ignored. The stories participate in the recent turn in Indigenous studies towards kinship and cross-ethnicity to map out the connected and shared itineraries of Black and Indigenous peoples and re-read Indigeneity in interaction. At the same time, the stories offer a fresh way to revisit Indigeneity in Canada through the collaborative lens and perspective of the Afroperipheral reality. In doing so, they contribute to calling attention to current cross-ethnic struggles for Indigenous rights and sovereignty in Canada that rely on kinship and ethnic alliances to keep on interrogating the shortcomings of the nation’s multiculturalism.

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