Profiles | Dr. Paul Sylvestre

Dr. Sylvestre completed his SSHRC-funded doctoral research with Dr. Castleden’s supervision in the Department of Geography and Planning at Queen’s University. His dissertation is a work of activist-engaged scholarship on the ways in which racial capitalism and urban settler colonialism work together to keep Indigenous land reclamation out of reach. He traces the history of the land, timber, and water in Algonquin territory, telling an archival narrative that quells a white supremacist trope of terra nullius and shows key periods of resistance over the past two hundred years. Paul goes on to detail how, in contemporary times, the state – through private property and policing – maintain colonial control over Indigenous lands and bodies. In doing so, he is able to detail, for the benefit of Indigenous land-defenders and their accomplices, the inner machinations of these institutional bodies in order to use this new knowledge to launch future action and scholarship that supports decolonization. Dr Sylvestre is continuing to work in the HEC Lab as a Research Associate on a number of projects.

Publications

Castleden, H., Hart, C., Martin, D., Harper, S., Cunsolo, A., Sylvestre, P., Day, L., Stefaneli, R. (2017). Implementing Indigenous and western knowledge systems in water research and management (part 2): Interviews with collaborative teams to overcome the limitations of literature reviews to inform water policy in Canada. International Indigenous Policy Journal (In press).

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Castleden, H.,  Sylvestre, P., Yeung, S. (2017). “I honestly don’t think I learned anything about Indigenous peoples”: Understanding medical school preceptors’ and students’ knowledge and attitudes towards Indigenous peoples and Indigenous health. (Prepared: target journal- Medical Education)

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Sylvestre, P., Castleden, H., Martin, D., & McNally, M. (2017). “Thank you very much… You can leave our community now.”: geographies of responsibility, relational ethics, acts of refusal, and the conflicting requirements of academic localities in Indigenous research. ACME: A Critical E-Journal of Geography

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