#HelloBlueSky✨👋🏾 I'm Dani, 🇯🇲phd student in #environmentalsociology using #decolonial #intersectionaltheory as a critical & political tool for a multiscale, historically grounded exploration of how power mediates mechanisms designed to support Indigenous-led restoration within the Great Barrier Reef!
"Indigenous nation building and native title: strategic uses of a fraught settler-colonial regime"
New publication co-authored by my advisor, Theresa Petray (Associate Professor in Sociology at James Cook University)
doi-org.elibrary.jcu.edu.au/10.1080/2201...
Jamaica now has a National Mangrove and Swamp Forest Management Plan: www.forestry.gov.jm/resourcedocs...
Sharing because this is the 1st of its kind for mangrove mgmt in Jamaica, & I also acted as the Environmental, Social & MER Specialist on the consulting team led by Dr. Camilo Trench.
Wrapped up another conference presentation this week. This time on behalf of my co-authors at the #reefsocialscience2023 symposium. Our presentation titled Finding Common Ground: A deep-dive into science mistrust in the Great Barrier Reef region was incredibly well received.
New paper out by ANU PhD Candidate (and colleague) Kate Bellchambers "Governing Country: A Literature Review of Indigenous Governance Principles in Indigenous Ranger Groups & Indigenous Protected Areas"
caepr.cass.anu.edu.au/research/pub...
... ever so often while on this phd journey, I am aggressively reminded that I have no idea what I am doing - like "hot slap in the face, swift kick in the pants, throat punch" type reminder. anyways happy friday!! be kind to a grad student today (cash and ice coffee are acceptable gifts)
Screenshot from NPR website showing article title "After decades, a tribe's vision for a new marine sanctuary could be coming true", the author, Lauren Sommer, and date published, August 10, 2023
"We are not wanting to be employees of NOAA," Walker says. "We are wanting to be separate and equal, so that we have autonomous decision making."
My core research focus in a nutshell: How do these arrangements inhibit or promote the agency of First Peoples in reality?
www.npr.org/2023/08/10/1...
#HelloBlueSky✨👋🏾 I'm Dani, 🇯🇲phd student in #environmentalsociology using #decolonial #intersectionaltheory as a critical & political tool for a multiscale, historically grounded exploration of how power mediates mechanisms designed to support Indigenous-led restoration within the Great Barrier Reef!