Associate Professor Emilie Cameron
Geographies of mining and impact assessment, imperialism and colonialism; political economic theories and approaches, Canadian North
- BA (Hon) University of British Columbia; MA Royal Holloway, University of London; PhD Queen’s University
- Email Associate Professor Emilie Cameron
Research Interests:
- Resource extraction, settler colonialism, and Indigenous self-determination in the Canadian North
- Geographies of Indigenous/non-Indigenous relations
- Imperialism and colonialism
- Environmental impact assessment
- Feminist, antiracist, anti-colonial, and political economic theories and approaches
- Critical northern geographies (including critical approaches to climate change, economic and social development, comprehensive land claims, environmental impact assessment, health, and knowledge production)
Publications:
Cameron, E. 2026. Where is Settler Colonialism? ACME,25(3), 151-177. DOI:
Cameron, E and Doyle, F. 2026. Mining, Caribou, and Impact Assessment in Unceded Kaska Dena Territory, Yukon: A retrospective analysis of assessed and approved projects, 2006–2024, with implications for regulatory and policy reform. Report available here
Bernauer, W. and E. Cameron. 2026. What does it take to stop a mine? Indigenous interventions and project rejection in Nunavut, Canada, Environmental Impact Assessment Review, 116.
Cameron, E., R. Collard, and J. Dempsey. 2024. The true cost of critical minerals. National Observer 2 May 2024.
Cameron, E. 2023. The More Than Human. In N. Behzadi, N. Doering, and S. Postar (eds), Extraction/Exclusion: Beyond Binaries in Resource Knowledge and Practice, Lanham, MA: Rowman and Littlefield, pp. 134-140.
Cameron, E. 2023. Staying in the Ring, Studies in Political Economy 104 (3): 168-173.
Cameron, E. and S. Kennedy. 2023. , Conservation and Society 21 (2): 121-132. Open access.
Price, J., R. Mearns and E. Cameron. 2023. (Re)storying From Within: Renewing Relationships Beyond the Shadows of Polar History. In P. Roberts and A. Howkins (eds), Cambridge History of the Polar Regions, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Cameron, E. 2022. The Contours of Colonialism, response to A Bounded Land by Cole Harris, Progress in Human Geography, 46 (4): 1117-1128.
Cameron, E. 2019. Response to by Geoff Mann, Society and Space.
Cameron, E. 2017. Scaling Arctic Climate Change. In S. Bocking and B. Martin (eds), Ice Blink: Navigating Northern Environmental History, University of Calgary Press, 465-495.
Cameron, E. 2016. Response to book review forum, , AAG Review of Books 4 (2): 107-110.
Gabel, C. and E. Cameron. 2016. The Community Readiness Initiative in Kugluktuk, Nunavut: The Challenge of Adapting an Indigenous Community-Based Participatory Framework to a Multi-Stakeholder, Government-Designed Project Environment, Engaged Scholar Journal, 2 (1): 89-108.
Cameron, Emilie. (2015). Vancouver: UBC Press.
Cameron, Emilie, Rebecca Mearns, and Janet Tamalik McGrath. 2015. , Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 105 (1),
Cameron, Emilie and Tyler Levitan. 2014. , Studies in Political Economy, 93: 29-56.
Cameron, Emilie, Sarah de Leeuw, and Caroline Desbiens. 2014. , Cultural Geographies 21 (1): 19-26.
Cameron, Emilie. 2012. , Progress in Human Geography, 36 (5): 572-591.
Cameron, Emilie. 2012. , Global Environmental Change 22 (1): 103-114.
de Leeuw, Sarah, Emilie Cameron, and Margo Greenwood. 2012. , The Canadian Geographer, 56(2): 180-194.
Cameron, Emilie. 2011. Reconciliation with Indigenous Ghosts: On the Politics of Postcolonial Ghost Stories. In May Chazan et al (eds.) Unsettling Multiculturalism: Lands, Labours, Bodies. Toronto: Between the Lines Press, 142-154.
Cameron, Emilie. 2011. Copper Stories: Imaginative Geographies and Material Orderings of the Central Canadian Arctic. In A. Baldwin, L. Cameron, and A. Kobayashi (eds.) Rethinking the Great White North: Race, Nature and the Historical Geographies of Whiteness in Canada. Vancouver: UBC Press, 169-190.
de Leeuw, Sarah, Audrey Kobayashi, and Emilie Cameron. 2011. Difference. In V. Del Casino, R. Panelli, P. Cloke, and M. Thomas (eds) Blackwell Companion to Social Geography. Oxford: Blackwell, 17-37.
de Leeuw, Sarah, Margo Greenwood and Emilie Cameron. 2010. . International Journal of Mental Health and Addiction, 8 (2): 282-295.
Cameron, Emilie. 2010. . Prince George, BC: National Collaborating Centre for Aboriginal Health
Cameron, Emilie, Sarah de Leeuw and Margo Greenwood. 2009. “Indigeneity”. In R. Kitchin and N. Thrift (eds.), International Encyclopedia of Human Geography. 5th Edition. London: Elsevier, pp 352-357.
Cameron, Emilie. 2009. Summer Stories: (Re)Ordering the Canadian Arctic, Antipode: A Radical Journal of Geography, 41 (1): 207-210.
Cameron, Emilie. 2009. ‘To Mourn’: Emotional Geographies and Natural Histories in the Canadian Arctic. In L. Bondi, L. Cameron, J. Davidson and M. Smith (eds.) Emotion, Place, and Culture. London: Ashgate, pp 163-186.
Cameron, Emilie. 2008. Senecio lugens in K. Yusoff (ed.) Bipolar. London: Arts Catalyst, pp. 104-105.
Cameron, Emilie. 2008. . Cultural Geographies, 15(3): 383-393.
Cameron, Emilie. 2008. . The Walrus Magazine. April 2008.
Cameron, Emilie. 2007. . Social and Cultural Geography, 8 (4): 551-573.