Anthropology And Society: Presentations By Charles Menzies

From April 20-23, 2006 I was an invited participant at the Muros Congress on Tourism and Fishing Communities. This event was organized by a variety of government and university centers, most notably the Centre for Studies in Tourism based at the University of Santiago de Compostella. The objective of the congress was to explore the ways in which tourism might be combined with the more traditional activities of commercial fishing to provide a long term and sustainable economic future for the municipality of Muros. Speakers involved representatives of Galician communities who had tried various tourism approaches, local academics, and representatives such as myself who were invited to present on the experiences in places as disperse as Northern Norway, Wales, and British Columbia. My own talk, available here, focused upon the ways in which tourism in Prince Rupert has developed in the context of Prince Rupert's fishing industry.

Rather than fetishizing the 'newness' of computer assisted communication this presentation focuses on how these technologies can be normalized and incorporated within our everyday research and teaching practice. Drawing upon ongoing research projects of the Forests and the Oceans for the Future research group we will run from podcast, to streamed video, to pdfs and back in this discussion of the everyday use of so-called new technologies.

This class room presentation focussed upon the ways of respectful research in Indigneous communities.

The interview focusses on the cultural intolerance of the president of Taseko Mines and a letter of compaint he wrote to the federal minister of the environment.

The interview focusses on the link between aboriginal rights and title and public concerns with the tarsands pipeline and tanker route.

This presentation discusses the ways in which identity matters and yet does not matter in the context of Indigenous research and teaching.

This presentation discusses how the indigenous Northwest Coast class system became entangled within 20th century industrial capitalism and the implication for the structure of contemporary social class, class consciousness, and notions of indigeneity.

This presentation was part of a full day symposium -hosted by the Centre for Culture, Identity, and Education (UBC)- that offered perspectives on the global environmental crisis from the lens of Indigenous knowledges. The diversity and plurality of Indigenous ways of knowing (traditional, academic, scientific and activist) was used to explore the impact of climate change on Indigenous communities, from the Cook Islands to Vancouver Island, as well as what constitutes Indigenous environmentalist responses at various sites and across different academic disciplines (e.g. anthropology, education, health sciences). The plenary panel, “Shifting Tides: Indigenous Responses to Global Climate Change” was composed of Indigenous figures from Pacific Peoples’ Partnership, Vancouver Island and the Koutu Nui of the Cook Islands. Other panels, which included UBC faculty, visiting scholars, the UBC Environment Caucus and graduate student representatives addressed “Indigeneity, Environmentalism and the Disciplines” and “Mo

From gardens to hunting, sports, street yourh and more. This interview covers the gist of what makes a field school go.

What is makes for respectful research in a colonial context? This presentation explores, through the use of stories, the issues behind conducting respectful research.

This presentation was part of a panel of Indigenous scholars discussing apropriate methodologies from the vantage point of their work and lives.

The continuation of family-based Artisanal fisheries is at risk in the context of neo-liberal globalization. Neo-liberal approaches favour rationalized economic models of governance in which individualized property, rationalized modes of production and concentrated ownership are prioritize over locality-based modes of harvest and governance. Drawing upon a decade an a half of field research with fishers from the Bigouden region in Brittany, France this paper considers the neo-liberal arguments of efficiency and rationality as a mechanism of fisheries governance. In this paper we consider the following questions: What aspects of neo-liberalism benefit community-based fisheries? What aspects undermine these fisheries? And, ultimately, is there a future for artisanal fishing communities in the era of neo-liberal gloabalization?

This talk was to the special committee meetings on aquaculture in Vancouver, BC, November 24th, 2006.

This talk was presented as part of a panel on overcoming obstacles to aboriginal education at the BC Social Studies Professional Association / Canadian Studies Association Annual meetings in Vancouver, October 20-23, 2006.

This talk was presented in a coloquium on Friday the 13th at the City University of New York Grad Center in honour of the work of Gerald M. Sider on the occassion of his retirement.