Public talk by Christianne Stephens, candidate for a faculty position in cultural anthropology - Feb. 25, 2013
by Michelle Saport |
Monday, Feb. 25, 4 p.m.
Beatrice McDonald Hall, Room 104
The Anthropology Department will be sponsoring a public talk by Christianne Stephens,
Ph.D.,candidate for a faculty position in cultural anthropology. The title and abstract
for her talk are as provided below.
"Toxic Talk at Walpole Island First Nation: Narratives of Pollution, Loss, and Resistance"
Drawing on seven years of ethnographic fieldwork and community engagement, Stephens
discusses the striking differences between scientific and media contaminants discourses
and local narratives of environmental threats to the Walpole Island First Nation,
an ecologically diverse Native North American community threatened by decades of accidental
chemical spills and legal discharges from industries on both sides of the Canada-U.S.
border. From a critical medical anthropological perspective, Stephens draws attention
to the important role of Indigenous knowledge and environmental narratives for assessing
the broader impacts of toxic exposure on the health and well-being of indigenous peoples
and refining the conceptual frameworks and language of risk employed by biomedicine,
industries and regulatory agencies.
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