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Here is a list of presentations and publications that the Project Community have participated in that are related to this project, or to other projects that connect to the subject matter of Learning to Listen.
Below you will see the date and then the name of the event or publication, the territories (if relevant), the name of the individuals participating, and a link to the paper, presentation, and resources/bibliography from that. Below that some of the more academic works that the Project Community have put out on topics similar to those being explored in this project.
Presentations & Publications
- 4 April 2025 – World Social Science Association Annual Conference, American Indigenous Studies Section, Ceremony, Community, and Resilience Panel, Duwamish territory (Seattle). “Learning to Listen: Cultivating Settler Support for Resurgence.” Presenter: Kikila. Links: Bibliography | Slides.
- Feb 13 2025 – Centre for Studies in Religion and Society, Scholars in the Square (graduate fellow presentation), lək̓ʷəŋən and W̱SÁNEĆ territory (UVic). “Cultivating Settler Support for Resurgence.” Presenter: Kikila & Sarah Jim. Links: Bibliography | Slides | YouTube
- April 17 2024 – American Association of Geographers, Annual General Meeting, Kānaka Maoli territory, Honolulu, O’ahu. Kikila Perrin presenting on “Cosmopolitics of Dispossession and Displacement: Surfing’s Impact on Land, Indigenous Peoples, and Sovereignty on ‘Vancouver Island.'” Presenter: Kikila. Links: Bibliography | Slides
- August 16 2023 – “We’ll head up the Saanich peninsula where a group of volunteers is pulling invasive plants off First Nations land.” CBC Radio, On the Island with Gregor Craigie covering the W̱IP.
- August 16 2023 – “Artist invites volunteer to pull invasive plants from Vancouver Island forest as an act of decolonization.” CBC news article covering the W̱ÍS,ḴEM Ivy Project.
- August 10 2023 – CBC News Story on the W̱SÍ,ḴEM Ivy Project, Sarah Jim, Max Mitchell (from HAT), and Kikila Perrin giving interviews on the project, and some awesome quotes from volunteers at the W̱IP.
- June 14 2023 – Swan Lake Christmas Hill Nature Sanctuary, lək̓ʷəŋən & W̱SÁNEĆ territory (Victoria, BC), Kikila Perrin presenting on Conservation Encounters at Ada’itsx (Fairy Creek), see below (Sept 1 2022) for slides and bibliography. Presenter: Kikila
- January 23 2023 – METAWEWIN with Elijah Buffalo, podcast. Episode “Learning to Listen with Kikila Perrin.” Episode Link: Spotify; Apple Podcasts
- September 1 2022 – National Tribal and Indigenous Climate Conference, Dakota, Ojibwe, Ho-Chunk, Cheyenne, Oto, Iowa, Sauk and Meskwaki territories (aka Paul MN), Kikila Perrin, presenting on Conservation Encounters at Ada’itsx (Fairy Creek). Links: Bibliography | Slides
- April 7 2022 – Effective Conversations with Yale Finer, podcast. Episode “Fairy Creek – Kikila & Government Control.” Episode Link.
Media and Accessible Reading
Phare Ouest. (2023). “Entrevue de Kikila Perrin: décoloniser le territoire des plantes envahissantes.” Radio-Canada. 17 August. https://ici.radio-canada.ca/ohdio/premiere/emissions/phare-ouest/episodes/725618/rattrapage-jeudi-17-aout-2023.
Marlow, Kathryn. (2023). “Artist invites volunteers to pull invasive plants from Vancouver Island forest as an act of decolonization.” CBC News, 16 August.
Marlow, Kathryn. (2023). “We’ll head up the Saanich peninsula where a group of volunteers is pulling invasive plants off First Nations land.” On the Island with Gregor Craigie, CBC Radio. 16 August.
CBC News. (2023). “Volunteers clear invasive ivy to help restore native plants.” 10 August. https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/2254153795896.
The Land Conservancy of BC (TLC). (2023). “Deertrails Naturalist Program.” YouTube. 8 February.
Buffalo, Elijah. (2023). “Learning to Listen with Kikila Perrin.” Metawewin S3 E1. 23 January.
Finer, Yael. (2022). “Fairy Creek – Kikila and Government Control.” Effective Conversations E25. 27 April.
Academic and Less Accessible Reading
Williams, Lewis, Ullrich Kockel, Danielle Alphonse, Kikila Perrin (2024). “Generating a globally relevant, inclusive praxis of Indigenist social-ecological resilience.” In The Bloomsbury Handbook of Ethics of Care in Transformative Leadership in Higher Education vol. 2, Mary Drinkwater, Yusef Waghid, eds. London: Bloomsbury.
Perrin, Kikila (2024). Cosmopolitics of Dispossession and Displacement: Surfing and Environmentalism Impact on Land, Indigenous Peoples, and Sovereignty on “Vancouver Island”. In: Ravulo, J., Olcoń, K., Dune, T., Workman, A., Liamputtong, P. (eds) Handbook of Critical Whiteness. Springer, Singapore. PDF. DOI: https://doi-org.ezproxy.library.uvic.ca/10.1007/978-981-19-1612-0_90-1.