For the past six years my research has been grounded in the Central Canadian Arctic, where I have been examining the materiality of stories and the ways in which stories order geographies of race, nature, political mobilization, and resource extraction in the region. My current research focuses more directly on mineral exploration and extraction. I’m particularly interested in how mining interweaves with economic development initiatives, international investment flows, territorial governance issues, and Inuit self-determination in contemporary Nunavut. Working with partners at the University of British Columbia and Memorial University, I’m part of a larger project examining the ways in which industrial mineral economies have transformed social, environmental, economic, and cultural geographies in the Canadian North.

Research Interests:

• Critical northern geographies
• Geographies of resource extraction, empire, and labour
• Race, nature, and environmental knowledge
• Geographies of Indigenous/non-Indigenous relations, colonialism, and Indigenous self-determination
• Feminist, poststructuralist, postcolonial, anti-racist, and political economic theories and approaches

 2012/2013 Courses:

• ENST 4000 [Environmental Studies Seminar]
• GEOG 2300 [Space, Place and Identity]
• GEOG 3000 [Honours Field Course]
• GEOG 5700 [Sustainability and Development in the Circumpolar North]

Publications

Cameron, Emilie. 2012. New Geographies of Story and Storytelling, Progress in Human Geography, 36 (5): 572-591.

Cameron, Emilie. 2012. Securing Indigenous politics: a critique of the vulnerability and adaptation approach to the human dimensions of climate change in the Canadian Arctic, Global Environmental Change 22 (1): 103-114.

de Leeuw, Sarah, Emilie Cameron, and Margo Greenwood. 2012. Participatory and Community-Based Research, Indigenous Geographies, and the Spaces of Friendship: A Critical Engagement, The Canadian Geographer, 56(2): 180-194.

Cameron, Emilie. 2011. Reconciliation with Indigenous Ghosts: On the Politics of Postcolonial Ghost Stories. In May Chazan et al (eds.) Unsettling Multiculturalism: Lands, Labours, Bodies. Toronto: Between the Lines Press, 142-154.

Cameron, Emilie. 2011. Copper Stories: Imaginative Geographies and Material Orderings of the Central Canadian Arctic. In A. Baldwin, L. Cameron, and A. Kobayashi (eds.) Rethinking the Great White North: Race, Nature and the Historical Geographies of Whiteness in Canada. Vancouver: UBC Press, 169-190.

de Leeuw, Sarah, Audrey Kobayashi, and Emilie Cameron. 2011. Difference. In V. Del Casino, R. Panelli, P. Cloke, and M. Thomas (eds) Blackwell Companion to Social Geography. Oxford: Blackwell, 17-37.

de Leeuw, Sarah, Margo Greenwood and Emilie Cameron. 2010. Deviant Constructions: How Governments Preserve Colonial Narratives of Violence and Mental Health to Intervene into the Lives of Indigenous Children and Families in Canada. International Journal of Mental Health and Addiction, 8 (2): 282-295.

Cameron, Emilie. 2010. State of the Knowledge: Inuit Public Health. Prince George, BC: National Collaborating Centre for Aboriginal Health.

(http://www.nccah.ca/docs/setting%20the%20context/1739_InuitPubHealth_EN_web.pdf)

Cameron, Emilie, Sarah de Leeuw and Margo Greenwood. 2009. “Indigeneity”. In R. Kitchin and N. Thrift (eds.), International Encyclopedia of Human Geography. 5^th Edition. London: Elsevier, pp 352-357.

Cameron, Emilie. 2009. Summer Stories: (Re)Ordering the Canadian Arctic, Antipode: A Radical Journal of Geography, 41 (1): 207-210.

Cameron, Emilie. 2009. ‘To Mourn’: Emotional Geographies and Natural Histories in the Canadian Arctic. In L. Bondi, L. Cameron, J. Davidson and M. Smith (eds.) Emotion, Place, and Culture. London: Ashgate, pp 163-186.

Cameron, Emilie. 2008. Senecio lugens in K. Yusoff (ed.) Bipolar. London: Arts Catalyst, pp. 104-105.

Cameron, Emilie. 2008. Indigenous Spectrality and the Politics of Postcolonial Ghost Stories. Cultural Geographies, 15(3): 383-393.

Cameron, Emilie. 2008. Life Going On. The Walrus Magazine. April 2008, Online, http://walrusmagazine.com/articles/2008.04-field-notes-contest-winner-emilie-cameron-life-goes-on

Cameron, Emilie. 2007. Exhibit and Point of Sale: Negotiating Commerce and Culture at the Vancouver Art Gallery. Social and Cultural Geography, 8 (4): 551-573.