Zoe Todd (Métis/otipemisiw) is an artist and scholar from amiskwaciwâskahikan (Edmonton), Alberta, Canada. She writes about fish, art, Métis legal traditions, the Anthropocene, extinction, and decolonization in urban and prairie contexts. She also studies human-animal relations, colonialism and environmental change in north/western Canada. She holds a BSc (Biological Sciences) and MSc (Rural Sociology) from the University of Alberta and a PhD (Social Anthropology) from Aberdeen University. She is an Associate Professor who splits her time between the Department of Sociology and Anthropology and the School of Indigenous and Canadian Studies at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada. She was a 2018/2019 Presidential Visiting Fellow at Yale in the Program in the History of Science and Medicine. She is part of the interdisciplinary Fluid Boundaries team (one of four teams shortlisted in 2019 to represent Canada at the 2020 Venice Architecture Biennale) and she is Principal Investigator for the “Restor(y)ing Bull Trout” project at Carleton University.
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It’s dangerous to write and post when you have the flu. But I have been housebound since Friday and although my physical body is nowhere near ready to strike out into the world, my brain is ready to do more than just watch Parks and Recreation on repeat. So here we are. In May 2018 I asked “should I stay or should I go?” with respect to the discipline of anthropology. By that point I had been working in the {+}