Archaeology and Anthropology 50th Anniversary Lecture Series
Cultural Politics of Energy: Community-Engaged Environmental Anthropology in Canada's Tar Sands
50th Anniversary Lecture Series 2018-19: Archaeology and Anthropology in an Era of Engagement and Reconciliation
Lecture #3
Nov. 8, 2018
4:30 – 6 pm
ARTS 102
Cultural Politics of Energy: Community-Engaged Environmental Anthropology in Canada's Tar Sands
Clinton Westman, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Archaeology and Anthropology, College of Arts and Science, University of Saskatchewan
Dr. Clinton Westman is the project director for Cultural Politics of Energy in northern Alberta, a SSHRC-funded community-based partnership with First Nations that focuses on the extractive industry and its social and environmental impacts. He is a winner of the College of Arts and Science 2017 New Scholar award.
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