School of Environment Speakers Series
Harvey A. Feit (Ph.D., FRSC)
Harvey Feit is Emeritus Professor of Anthropology at McMaster University. He did his graduate degrees at , and was on the faculty at Carleton and Universities before McMaster.
His research and publications focus on: ethnographies of Indigenous struggles – situated autonomies and globalizing practices; relational ontology and Indigenous co-governance as amodern knowledge practices; ethno-ecology and the “ecological Indian”; and, histories of engaged anthropology.
Recent publications include: with M. Blaser and G. McRae, co-eds., In the Way of Development: Indigenous Peoples, Life Projects and Globalization, London: Zed and IDRC, 2004; “Myths of the Ecological Whitemen: Histories, Science, and Rights in North American -- Native American Relations,” in Native Americans and the Environment, M. E. Harkin and D. R. Lewis, eds. Lincoln: U. Nebraska, 2007; and, “Governmental Rationalities and Nation State -- James Bay Cree Co-governance,” in Unsettled Legitimacy: Political Community, Power, and Authority in a Global Era, S. Bernstein and W. D. Coleman, eds. Vancouver: UBC, due 2009.