The Geography Graduate Student Association (GGSA) is pleased to invite you to our Fall Speaker Series with our guest Dr. Rosemary-Claire Collard.
Dr. Collard is a political ecologist and economic geographer who works as an Associate Professor in the Department of Geography at Simon Fraser University. 

This event is taking place in collaboration with the Department of Geography's Blue Box series and is supported by Scholarship in the Arts (SITA) funding.

Fueling extinction: Caribou, extraction and the state

Extinction studies, animal studies and animal geographies all advocate “centering the animal” in research. This is often accomplished by conducting research in spaces of human-animal encounter, like the caribou maternal pen above. When trying to understand and intervene in problems like extinction, though, it can be important to center not only the animal but also the political and economic structures that position animals as disposable. Methodologically, this can require ranging far from animals and spaces of encounter, into extinction’s “conditions of existence.” Along these lines, this talk presents a slice of research from a collaborative in-process book that investigates the state-fueled extractive land-use change driving caribou endangerment in Treaty 8 territory of West Moberly First Nations and Saulteau First Nation.

When: Friday, October 24, 12 - 1 pm

Where: A-1045