"Fish pluralities, refraction and decolonization in amiskwaciwâskahikan" with Zoe Todd

0:00 - Introduction by Charles Stankievech
7:15 - Zoe Todd presentation
1:01:43 - Q & A

On March 14, 2016, Zoe Todd presented a Master of Visual Studies Proseminar Series lecture entitled "Fish pluralities, refraction and decolonization in amiskwaciwâskahikan" at the John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design.

In a recent piece (Todd 2014), Zoe Todd examined what it means to expand ‘reconciliation’ discourses in Canada ‘beyond-the-human’,incorporating human-fish relations into broader conversations about Indigenous-State relations and settler-colonial realities. This talk examined the possibilities and potentials offered to us as we heed Anishinaabe legal scholar John Borrows’ call to acknowledge Indigenous legal orders within the legal pluralities that shape Canada (Pohlmann 2014). Taking the intimate and fleshy relationships between humans and fish in Zoe's hometown of Edmonton as a departure point, she examines how we can shift legal-governance relationships in Canada away from anthropocentric frameworks and instead acknowledge and tend to the principles of reciprocity, kinship and relatedness that are centred in diverse and dynamic Indigenous legal orders across Canada.

Zoe Todd (Métis) is from amiskwaciwâskahikan (Edmonton) in Treaty Six Terri-tory in Alberta, Canada. She writes about Indigeneity, art, architecture, decoloni-zation and healing in urban contexts. She also studies human-animal relations, colonialism and environmental change in northern Canada. She is a tenure-track lecturer in Anthropology at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada and a PhD Candidate in Social Anthropology at Aberdeen University. She was a 2011 Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation Scholar. http://carleton.ca/socanth/people/todd-zoe/

The MVS Proseminar talks in 2016 focus on the issues of sovereignty and colonization. Organized by Charles Stankievech: https://www.daniels.utoronto.ca/events/mvs-proseminar-series

For more information about the John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design at the University of Toronto, visit us at www.daniels.utoronto.ca.

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