Examination of the forces that restructure local economies, both historically and contemporarily; link between rural economic development and the legacy of resource development in Aboriginal communities across British Columbia. A core element of the Haida Gwaii Semester.

Background on sources of Aboriginal and Canadian law; detail on section 35 of the Constitution Act; a review of relevant Canadian case law; insight on the importance of international law; and literature on governance.

Interdisciplinary seminar considering the ethics and praxis of working with difficult knowledge, such as highly divisive questions of memory and responsibility in the context and aftermaths of oppression and mass violence.

This seminar offers an intensive engagement with foundational and emerging critical theories that shape contemporary understandings of social justice. Drawing from fields such as critical race theory, feminist, queer and trans theory, decolonial, anticolonial, and Indigenous studies, Marxism, disability and debility studies, and bio-necropolitical theory, the course interrogates how power operates across axes of difference and domination. Restricted to students in one of M.A. GRSJ, Ph.D. GRSJ.

This course introduces students to the key concepts and issues of a theory and praxis of social justice in the global present. Students will become familiar with current debates, key concepts, and innovative scholarship through: a) a series of dialogues on key concepts and debates led by Social Justice Institute faculty and b) the presentations and dialogue with local, national and international noted scholars and the reading of their work. Restricted to students in one of M.A. GRSJ, Ph.D. GRSJ.