Emilie Cameron

Biography

My primary research interest is in critical northern geographies. Most recently I have been focusing on mineral exploration and mine development in the Canadian Arctic, examining how mining interweaves with comprehensive land claim agreements, environmental assessment institutions, self-determination movements, and histories of colonial knowledge production. Working with partners at the University of British Columbia and Memorial University, I’m part of a larger project examining the ways in which industrial mineral economies have transformed social, environmental, economic, and cultural geographies in the Canadian North. I have a longstanding interest in non-Inuit knowledge production, including the geographies of northern social science research and the broader material effects of storying the North. My doctoral research, forthcoming as a book with UBC Press, examined the ways in which stories have materially shaped Qablunaaq (non-Inuit) relations with the Arctic. The book aims to make sense of how shifting geographies of capital, resources, governance, climate, and political mobilization in the contemporary Arctic are made sensible, legible, and political through stories.

Research Interest

Critical northern geographies Geographies of resource extraction, empire, and labour Race, nature, and environmental knowledge Geographies of Indigenous/non-Indigenous relations, colonialism, and Indigenous self-determination Feminist, poststructuralist, postcolonial, anti-racist, and political economic theories and approaches