I study the correlation between extractive capitalism and gender-based violence in Indigenous communities near extractive industries. Specifically, the MMIWG2S+ crisis in northeastern Alberta (where my Métis and Cree family is from/where I was raised).
I assess historical applications of Cree, Dene, and Métis care politics toward vulnerability, harm, and accountability regarding gender-based violence as a viable solutions-based response, attuned to contemporary colonial contexts, to the MMIWG2S+ issue that violences the peoples of the boreal forest (saka wayiniwak).
This research highlights the nuance in the field of Indigenous politics and Indigenous feminism by putting these two fields into conversation with one another about revitalizing Indigenous care ethics in the application of Indigenous governance informed by Indigenous women’s, girls, and queer folks experiences and knowledge systems.
Experience
I have taught as a sessional at Camosun College, UVic, and have worked as the Indigenous Education Instructional Designer at RRU for the past 2.5 years.
During my MA I worked as a researcher for First Nations Health Authority and supported a project that connected land and right of return to land as a strengths-based indicators for Indigenous health.
I have been a part of various large CIHR and SSHRC funded research projects supporting issues like queer-led sex-education and Indigenizing health ethics. I also sit on Indigenous research related boards like the BCNEIHR and UVic’s SAGE.
Memberships and Committees
- Canadian Political Science Association Committee for Teaching Excellence
- British Columbia Network Environment for Indigenous Health Research (BCNEIHR), Governing Member.
Education
(Currently ABD)
Doctor of Philosophy in Indigenous Governance
University of Victoria
2019
Master of Arts in Indigenous Governance
University of Victoria
2017
Bachelor of Arts (Hons.), First Class Hons. in Law & Society (Major), Political Science (Minor)
University of Calgary
Awards
2020
Pierre Elliott Trudeau Scholar
PETF
2020
SSHRC Vanier
SSHRC
2021/2022/2023
President’s Research Award
University of Victoria
Research
Research interest
Abolition Indigenous
Queer Indigenous Politics
Gender Justice
Publications
Dionne, Jasmine. (2024). “Who Obliges Treaty 8? An Indigenous Feminist Analysis of Community Relations Practices by Oil Corporations in Northeastern Alberta”. Visions of the Heart. (6th Edition). Starblanket, Gina., Long, David. (Eds). Oxford University Press.
Dionne, Jasmine (2024). “Re-instilling Visiting and Kinship Politics in Northeastern Alberta: Safety Amidst and Beyond Extractive Colonial Violence”. A Line in the Tar Sands: The End of Extraction as we Know it? (2nd Edition). Janzwood, Amy., Wiebe, Sarah., Gilpin, Erynne. (Eds). University of Athabasca Press.