Reclaiming Fire & the Right to Burn

Event Description

In this fireside chat, Professor Stacey will discuss her work with the Tŝilhqot’in Nation emerging from the Nation’s experiences in the 2017 wildfires extending through to Tŝilhqot’in revitalization of qwen (fire) laws. Contrary to dominant assumptions about Indigenous Peoples climate change and emergency discourses, this work documents how the Tŝilhqot’in use diverse strategies of resistance and resurgence. The Tŝilhqot’in Nation’s experiences reclaiming fire show how Indigenous resurgence provides pathways out of the climate crisis while also attending to its colonial roots and decolonizing the responses to it.

A copy of the article can be found open-access in the Journal of Human Rights and the Environment, Reclaiming fire: resistance, resurgence and Indigenous jurisdiction in the climate emergency. 

Event Poster

Speaker

Jocelyn Stacey is an Associate Professor at the Peter A. Allard School of Law, University of British Columbia. She researches environmental crises and the visible and invisible ways in which law creates, regulates and prevents these events. Her work focuses on environmental assessment law, disaster law, climate change, emergency powers and the rule of law.