Campus
- Mississauga (UTM)
Fields of Study
- Sociocultural Anthropology
- North America
Areas of Interest
Research keywords: Indigenous studies, environmental justice, climate change, grassroots activism, Indigenous sovereignty, resource extraction and infrastructure, food studies, queer Indigenous feminism, anti-colonial methodologies, Indigenous ancestral tattooing
Biography
Anne Spice is inland Tlingit, Deishuhíttaan clan (Carcross Tagish/ Tlingit), and a member of Kwanlin Dün First Nation. She has been supporting Indigenous land re-occupations since 2015, and her work dwells in the intersection of Indigenous geographies, poetry and art. Her current book project is an activist auto-ethnography of Indigenous anti-pipeline resistance, and her research and art connect ancestral Tlingit tattooing practices to mental health and recovery in the Yukon.
Publications:
Articles and chapters:
Spice, Anne. (2024). Queer (Re)Generation: Disrupting Apocalypse Time. In Margot Weiss (Ed.), Unsettling Queer Anthropology. Durham and London: Duke University Press.
Shiri Pasternak, Deb Cowen, Robert Clifford, Tiffany Joseph, Dayna Nadine Scott, Anne Spice, Heidi Kiiwetinepinesiik Stark. (2023). Infrastructure, Jurisdiction, Extractivism: Keywords for decolonizing geographies. Political Geographer vol. 101.
C. Geralda Armstrong, A. Spice, J. Ridsdale, J. Welch (2023). Liberating trails and travel routes in Gitxsan and Wet’suwet’en territories from the tyrannies of heritage management regimes. American Anthropologist vol. 125, issue 2. Pp. 361-376. Winner of the Gordon R. Wiley prize (American Anthropological Association).
Spice, Anne. (2021). blood memory: the criminalization of Indigenous land defense. Critical Ethnic Studies vol. 7, no. 1.
Spice, Anne. (2019). Heal the People, Heal the Land: An interview with Freda Huson, spokesperson for Unist’ot’en Camp. In Jaskiran Dhillon, Nick Estes (Eds.), #NoDAPL and Mni Wiconi: Reflections on Standing Rock. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
Spice, Anne. (2018). Fighting Invasive Infrastructures: Indigenous Relations Against Pipelines. Environment and Society vol.10.
Spice, Anne. (2018). Residential Schools. Indigenous Atlas of Canada. Canadian Geographic: https://indigenouspeoplesatlasofcanada.ca/article/residential-schools/
Book Reviews:
Spice, Anne. (2024). Review of: Tom Ozden-Schilling, The Ends of Research: Indigenous and Settler Science after the War in the Woods. American Anthropologist vol. 126, no. 4, 738-9.
Spice, Anne. (2018). Review of: Joanne Barker, Critically Sovereign; Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, As We Have Always Done; R. Aída Hernández Castillo, Multiple Injustices. WSQ: Protest vol. 46, no. 3-4.
Spice, Anne. (2017). The Participation Problem: Review of Jaskiran Dhillon’s Prairie Rising. The New Inquiry
Public engagement:
Writing:
Spice, Anne. (2021). The Language of Dispossession: Indigenous Defenders against Pipelines. Peeps Magazine. Issue 8: Toxicity & Complicity.
Spice, Anne. (2019). The Wet’suwet’en aren’t just Protecting ‘the Environment’. Asparagus Magazine.
Spice, Anne; Denzel Sutherland-Wilson. (2019). Old Neighbors, New Battles. The New Inquiry.
Spice, Anne; Julian Brave Noisecat. (2016). A History and Future of Resistance. Jacobin Magazine Online.
Podcasts:
Forthcoming: Anne Spice on Transformative Marks, hosted by Dion Kaszas. 2024.
“Ep.6: Indigenous Land Defenders” Don’t Call Me Resilient Podcast (The Conversation). March 10, 2021.
“Natural Gas: Live” In This Climate Podcast. January 19, 2021.
“Canada is Illegal w/ Karla Tait and Anne Spice” The Red Nation Podcast. February 8, 2021.
“Unist’ot’en Camp: no access without consent w/ Anne Spice” The Red Nation Podcast. December 16, 2019.