Zoe Todd
Professor
Anthropology
Carleton University
Canada
Biography
Zoe Todd (Métis/otipemisiw) is from Amiskwaciwâskahikan (Edmonton), Alberta, Canada. She writes about fish, art, Métis legal traditions, the Anthropocene, extinction, and decolonization in urban and prairie contexts. She also studies human-animal relations, colonialism and environmental change in north/western Canada.
Research Interest
My research is on fish, colonialism and legal-governance relations between Indigenous peoples and the Canadian State. In the past, I have researched human-fish relations in the Inuvialuit Settlement Region, and I have also conducted work on Arctic Food Security in the Inuvialuit Settlement Region in the Northwest Territories, Canada. My current work focuses on the relationships between people and fish in the context of colonialism, environmental change and resource extraction in Treaty Six Territory (Edmonton, amiskwaciwâskahikan), Alberta and the Lake Winnipeg watershed more broadly. My work employs a critical Indigenous feminist lens to examine the shared relationships between people and their environments and legal orders in Canada, with a view to understanding how to bring fish and the more-than-human into conversations about Indigenous self-determination, peoplehood, and governance in Canada today.
Publications
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Todd, Z. (2016). ‘How do you teach about the layered colonial realities that mould a Canadian city?’ (commentary). Aboriginal Policy Studies 6(1): 90-97.
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Todd, Z. (2016). From a Fishy Place: Examining Canadian State law applied in the Daniels decision from the perspective of Métis legal orders. TOPIA 36: 43-57.
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Todd, Z. (2017). Fish, Kin, and Hope: Tending to water violations in amiskwaciwâskahikan and Treaty Six Territory. Afterall: A Journal of Art, Context and Inquiry 43(1): 102-107.
