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Cliff is a Tsimshian (Kitsumkalum/Kitselas) Nuu-chah-nulth (Ahousaht) scholar who researches and teaches Indigenous governance, political economy, and resource management. He is interested in how Indigenous communities navigate, adopt, and resist mainstream capitalism while working to sustain unique cultural identities and worldviews. He is particularly focused on how Indigenous community leaders assert their agency within the confines of settler colonial politics and economics. Cliff has published extensively on Indigenous water relations and Indigenous community responses to the Trans Mountain pipeline. His current research includes exploring cleaner marine transport options for coastal Indigenous communities, Indigenous self-determination, health governance, and territorial integrity in the era of COVID-19. He also examines issues related to Indigenous forestry management, settler solidarity, and economic reconciliation with Indigenous economic alternatives to capitalism.
Department of Philosophy