What a failed project taught me about settler research with and for Indigenous peoples

Biographie de l'auteur-e

• Katherine Morton Richards

  Dr. Katherine Morton Richards (she/her) is a settler researcher and assistant professor in the Department of Sociology at Acadia University. She recently finished her PhD at Memorial University, examining the limitations of settler research and the emancipatory potential of failure. Raised on the Pacific Ocean on unceded Nuu Chah Nulth and Coast Salish territory, and now working on unceded Mi’kmaq territory, she centres her work on settler colonialism, identity, and the Canadian state. Recently, Katherine has been investigating sustainability, Indigenous species knowledge, and settler pushback, with an emphasis on Indigenous rights to fishing. Her work is centred on critiques of the settler colonial state, Canadian national identity, and intersections of gender, race, violence, and law.