Research and Making
Research
For over five years I have had the honour of managing the Conservation through Reconciliation Partnership (CRP), a seven-year SSHRC partnership grant. The CRP aims to set the conditions for the transformation of nature conservation through the implementation of the Indigenous Circle of Experts’ We Rise Together report and our three legacy projects. These legacy projects will support Indigenous Nations and governments with the development and implementation of Indigenous Protected and Conserved Areas (IPCAs).
Indigenous-led conservation; IPCAs; environmental governance
I am in the third year of the Social Practice and Transformational Change PhD Program at the University of Guelph. My work aims to catalyze decolonial and anticolonial change within the Canadian conservation sector.
Indigenous-led conservation; decolonization; solidarity; settler responsibilities
Peer-reviewed publications
Bishop, A. Roth, R. McGregor, D. Moola, F. & Nitah, S. (In publication). Catalyzing transformative change in the conservation sector: Lessons learned from a decolonial conservation partnership. Conservation and Society.
Reports and non-scholarly publications
Elevating Indigenous Governance and Leadership in Urban Parks: Possibilities, Challenges, and Pathways - Prepared by Robin Roth and Allison Bishop
Within the context of a growing movement for Indigenous-led conservation in Canada, there is significant potential in urban spaces to elevate Indigenous leadership, governance and legal orders, with possibilities of fostering positive outcomes for diverse peoples and our more-than-human relatives. The purpose of this report is to share key considerations and resources to support Indigenous Nations, governments, and organizations who may be contemplating Indigenous-led conservation initiatives in urbanized territories.
Urban landscape with diverse land relations and uses taking place, including fishing, inter-generational learning, and biocultural monitoring.
Making
Digital Stories
White washing: A short story
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.
Thinking with Haraway (2016), this digital story “stays with the trouble” of settler responsibilities for decolonization. I share a personal experience of intervening in settler-colonial narratives and the discomfort that arises. The questions that ground this story are similar to the questions that drive my research interests. Once we (settlers) can recognize epistemic erasure, how do we take steps to address it? How can we help? What are our responsibilities? What ethical frameworks guide us? What does accountability look like? These are all necessary questions to explore if, as Harraway (2016) suggests, we are to “live and die well with each other in a thick present” (pg. 1).
Haraway, D. (2016). Staying with the Trouble: Making kin in the Chthulucene. Duke University Press.