Edited volume - Contested Consultations in the Extractive Industries
Karin Buhmann (lead) and Mark Stoddart (co-lead), are among the editors of a newly published volume on resource extraction and contested consultation practices. Read more here.
2025 Arctic Academy: The Role of Stakeholders as a Regulatory Force for Sustainable Natural Resource Usage
GALI project - Global Arctic Leadership Initiative: ‘New Pathways for Meaningful Engagement: Lessons from Northern B.C.’
The GALI project, ‘New Pathways for Meaningful Engagement: Lessons from Northern B.C.’, was officially started in October 2024, with two events attended by Dr. Giuseppe Amatulli while visiting the Doig River Reserve from a week (October 28 – November 3, 2024). With the aim of promoting research and disseminate new knowledge, within academia and beyond, on meaningful consultation and engagement around land use and land management, sustainable development and natural resource extraction; the project was planned to kick off on October 1st, 2024, by attending the Doig World café. However, due to some contingencies and considered the fact that two major events were planned to take place at Doig Reserve and in Fort St. John at the end of October 2024, the project started a few weeks later. Extensive fieldwork was conducted in May 2025 by Dr Giuseppe Amatulli and Prof Mark Stoddart, who spent a few weeks working at the Doig Reserve. During this period, they run interviews with staff of the Land department, engaged with members while attending activities on the land and presented their work and preliminary finding at the Doig's Chief and Council. In connection to the fieldowork carried out in May, there was also the attendance of the BC Studies Conference (Vancouver, UBC, 2-4 May), where Dr. Amatulli presented with Shona Nelson (Doig Band Manaher), Sara Rowe (Doig forester) and Allisun Rana (Doig lawyer) on the concept of meaningful engagement in Treaty 8 territories in a post-Yahey context. Moreover, the participation to the conference secured the possibility to publish a Special Issue on meaningful engagement in Treaty 8 territories on one of the quarterly 2026 BC Studies journal.
