Gabrielle Slowey
Gabrielle Slowey is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at York University where she teaches courses in Aboriginal and Canadian politics. Her research, funded by SSHRC (Northern Research Development Grant) and IPY, considers ways in which neoliberal globalization affects the political and economic development of First Nations. More specifically, she looks at the emerging relationship between First Nations, corporations and governments as they are transformed through treaties, land claims, self-government and resource development (oil and gas, mineral and hydro electric power). She began her career as a self-government officer for the Mikisew Cree First Nation of northern Alberta in 1997. Since then, she has traveled throughout the Arctic, most recently to Old Crow, Yukon and Ouje-Bougoumou, James Bay, Quebec. To add an international dimension to her study, she traveled New Zealand to compare the Canadian experience with those of the Ngai Tahu (South Island) and the Tainui (Waikato, North Island). In her most recent project she compares political and economic development strategies of the Vuntut Gwitchin, Yukon and the Inuvialuit of Tuktoyaktuk, Northwest Territories in light of looming oil and gas development. She is the author of Navigating Neoliberalism: Self-Determination and the Mikisew Cree First Nation (UBC Press, fall 2007); “Federalism and First Nations: Finding Space for Aboriginal Governments,” in Ian Peach, ed. “Constructing Tomorrow’s Federalism: New Routes to Effective Governance; Neoliberalism and the Project of Self-Government,” in Dave Broad and Wayne Antony, eds., Citizens or Consumers? Social Policy in a Market Society; “Globalization and the Dispossessed: Impacts and Implications for First Nations,” American Review of Canadian Studies; and “America, Canada and ANWR: Bilateral Relations and Indigenous Struggles,” Native Americas.
Gabrielle’s research is supported in part by a SSHRC Northern Research Development Grant.
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