Patricia Johnston

Canadian Studies Centre

University of Calgary

patricia.johnston1@ucalgary.ca

Ladysmith , British Columbia V9G1C9

Patricia has worked throughout the Arctic and northern Canada for the last 15 years. As a critical theorist, her research interests focus on community-based research in relation to social, cultural and economic impacts of policy on Inuit children and families in Nunavut, Indigenous governance, gendered labour and exclusion, traditional knowledge, and the perpetuation of colonial institutions over time in the Arctic.