Leah Temper – The Conversation

Maps can be a tool in the defense of Indigenous communities against extractive industries. Canadian Centre for Architecture; Grant Tigner, painter. Seagrams Limited, publisher. The St. Lawrence Seaway and Power Project, in The St. Lawrence Seaway: The Realization of a Mighty Dream, 1954.

April 22, 2019

Using maps as a weapon to resist extractive industries on Indigenous territories

Sébastien Caquard, Concordia University; Annita Lucchesi, University of Lethbridge; Daviken Studnicki-Gizbert, McGill University; Leah Temper, McGill University, and Thomas Mcgurk, Concordia University

Historically, western corporate maps have been privileged over Indigenous ones. But given the essential debate of territory in resource conflicts, maps are a crucial tool.

People march against pipelines in Smithers, B.C. in May 2014. Francois Depey/Office of the Wet'suwet'en

December 19, 2018

Is the next Standing Rock looming in northern B.C.?

Leah Temper, McGill University

The We'suwet'en First Nation is fighting the Coastal GasLink pipeline project, which would stretch nearly 700 kilometres across northern B.C. through their unceded land.

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