Section: Research Student Profiles

Darcy Leigh

Name
Darcy Leigh
Organisation
Undergraduate Teaching Office, School of Social and Political Science
University of Edinburgh
Address
6.14 CMB Edinburgh UK
E-Mail
URL
http://www.sps.ed.ac.uk/gradschool/research_student_profiles/politics_and_ir/leigh_darcy
Darcy Leigh

PhD Research:

In my thesis I trace the practice and articulation of anti-colonial politics in education in the Canadian North. I explore the ways in which Indigenous-state relations are being engaged, resisted and rearticulated in explicitly political and cultural post-secondary educational contexts.

My thesis is broadly inspired by questions around the limits and possibilities of different discourses of politics - and of the pervasive discourses of state, legal or juridical politics in particular. I am concerned with the intersections of those discourses with colonial power and its resistance. I am concerned with education as a site of those intersections and their negotiation. 

I am working with two projects: an Inuit law school in Nunavut and a land-based bush university in the Northwest Territories. Both projects draw on, articulate and relate different versions of knowledge and politics. Both therefore formulate and negotiate the above questions. I am a participant in as well as a researcher on both of these projects.

Other Research: 

I am a Research Assistant on the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council funded 'Dechinta Land Based University Partnership Development Grant'. 

I am a contributor to the ArcticNet funded project on 'Improving Access to University Education in the Canadian Arctic'. See: http://www.arcticnet.ulaval.ca/research/summary.php?project_id=77

Research Interests:

Indigenous politics, Nunavut, Dene politics, Inuit politics, the Arctic, the North, decolonisation, cultural education. 

Foucault, critical theory, the delineation of politics, sovereignty, the state.  

Critical methodologies, decolonising methodologies, indigenous methodologies, critical pedagogy. 

Publications:

Leigh, D. (2009) 'Colonialism, Gender and the Family in North America: For a Gendered Analysis of Indigenous Struggles', Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, 9 (1), 70-88.

Conference Papers: 

Canadian Political Science Association (2010) Inside and Out: Ambivalence, Indigeneity and Sovereignty in Canada's Arctic. Montreal.

British Association of Canadian Studies (2010) Ambivilant Boundaries: Articulations of Sovereignty and Indigeneity in Canada's Arctic. Cambridge.

Tutoring: 

Introduction to Politics and International Relations (Fall 2010 - ongoing)

Sociology 1a (Fall 2010)

Social and Political Theory 2 (Spring 2010)

Lecturing:

'Feminisms and Poststructuralisms' on Contemporary Feminist Debates (Co-lecturer with Maddie Breeze - Fall 2010 - ongoing)

'Indigenous Peoples, Natural Resources and Ethnic Conflict) on Introduction to Sustainability and Development (Fall 2011 - upcoming)

Research Group Membership and Participation:

International Relations

Canadian Studies 

Gender and Politics (and the reading group 'femjoy') 

Research Training Courses Completed:

Explanation and Understanding in Social Research

Ethical and Political Issues in Social Research

Text, Narrative and Discourse

Research Design 

Awards:

Shaw Macfie Lang Award (2011)

School of Social and Political Sciences Scholarship (2010)

Helen Philip Memorial Scholarship (2009)

Sir William Darling Memorial Prize (2009)

Charles Stuart Pennell Prize (2007) 

Baylis and Smith Prize (2006)  

Market Research Projects and Reports: 

MSc (postgraduate) in International Relations 2011 (for the Graduate School of Social and Political Science, the University of Edinburgh)

MA (undergraduate) in Global and International Sociology 2011 (for the School of Social and Political Science, University of Edinburgh)

 

 

This page was published on 6 September 2011


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