Joly, Dr. Tara
Biography
Tara Joly is a 10th generation Euro-Canadian settler and an uninvited guest on the Traditional Territory of the Lheidli T'enneh, where she is grateful to have lived since 2016. She is trained as an environmental anthropologist and specializes in applied and community-based research with Indigenous peoples in northwestern Canada. Broadly speaking, Joly's work documents how settler colonial governments attempt to remake Indigenous land into extractive territory or settler home; and explores and supports processes by which Indigenous peoples assert sovereignty and renew relationships to place, regardless of these attempts.
Research and Expertise
Dr. Joly has conducted numerous applied research projects with Indigenous Nations in northern Alberta and British Columbia, including community-based research, Indigenous land use/impact assessments, social scientific technical reviews, Indigenous environmental monitoring research, and oral history research. Her research includes varied intersections between Indigenous rights, extractive industries, histories of dispossession, gendered violence, settler colonialism, human-environment relations, history of science, research methodologies, and interdisciplinary studies.