Carole Blackburn

    • blcarole(at)interchange.ubc.ca
    • 604 822-2303 (AnSo 2207)
    • Ph.D. Stanford University, 2003

    Research Interests

    Carole Blackburn’s research focuses on questions of aboriginal rights, sovereignty and citizenship in Canada.  Her research on the Nisga’a treaty looks at how Nisga’a sought to create a form of indigenous citizenship in their struggle to have their aboriginal rights recognized in the Nisga’a Final Agreement.  It also considers how the treaty frames aboriginal rights in ways that are shaped by precedent setting court decisions, the interests of resource extractive capital and the state’s imperative to ensure its own sovereignty.  Dr. Blackburn’s current research concerns the movement to reconcile Indian Residential School abuses.  This research focuses on the justiciability of the loss of culture in court as well as the role of trauma and PTSD as evidence of historic suffering and lasting injury in former students.

    Refereed Books

    • 2000 Harvest of Souls: Jesuit Missionaries and Colonialism in Seventeenth Century New France. Montreal: McGill Queens University Press.

    Refereed Journal Articles

    • 2009 "Differentiating Indigenous Citizenship: Seeking Multiplicity in Rights, Identity and Sovereignty in Canada." American Ethnologist 36(1).
    • 2007 "Producing Legitimacy: Reconciliation and the Negotiation of Aboriginal Rights in Canada." Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute. 13(3):622-638.
    • 2005 "Searching for Guarantees in the Midst of Uncertainty: Negotiating Aboriginal Rights and Title in British Columbia." American Anthropologist 107(4):586-596.

     

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