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by Julia Christensen (Editor), Christopher Cox (Editor), Lisa Szabo-Jones (Editor)
Explores how storytelling engages and builds new interconnections between people and their histories, environments, and cultural geographies. Focuses on the significance of storytelling in Indigenous knowledge frameworks and other ways of knowing, and how researchers have embraced narrative and story as a part of their methodologies.
Author Biography
Julia Christensen is a geographer and creative writer born and raised in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, on the ancestral homelands of the Yellowknives Dene First Nation. She holds a Canada Research Chair in Northern Governance and Public Policy at Memorial University. She was previously a Trudeau Foundation Scholar.Christopher Cox is an assistant professor of Indigenous and Minority Language Issues in the School of Linguistics and Language Studies at Carleton University. His research focuses on issues in language documentation, education, and revitalization, and he has been involved with community language programs in western and northern Canada for the past twenty years.
Lisa Szabo-Jones, a photographer and Trudeau Foundation Scholar, holds a PhD from the University of Alberta and teaches literature at John Abbott College. She is co-editor of Sustaining the West: Cultural Responses to Canadian Environments (WLU Press, 2015).
