Brian Noble
Associate Professor
Related information
Email: bnoble@dal.ca
Phone: 902-494-2819
Mailing Address:
PO Box 15000, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada B3H 4R2
- Social justice and inequality
- Applied - action research
- Decolonizing studies and methodologies
- Indigenous peoples
- Knowledge, science and expertise
- Political anthropology
- Property and law
- Settler states
Cross appointments
- International Development Studies
- Canadian Studies
Education
- BA, MA, PhD, University of Alberta
- PDF, University of British Columbia
Research interests
Brian Noble is a Canadian Political Anthropologist & Etho-Ecological Action Researcher at Dalhousie University. He publishes on decolonizing relations between Settler and Indigenous Peoples – and with non-human worlds of beings, the land – seeking practices that advance collective, livable earth futures together. Much of his research addresses how current and past expert knowledges interact – oppressively or in liberatory ways – with the practices of freedom of Indigenous Peoples and other knowledge communities – attending to how reciprocal, mutual, relational ethos positively displace yet-expanding colonizing, capitalist-extractivist forces. His books include the co-edited volume Transcontinental Dialogues - Activist Alliances with Indigenous Peoples of Canada, Mexico, & Australia, and the Ethnographic monograph, Articulating Dinosaurs – A Political Anthropology.
Selected publications, presentations and reports
- 2016 Articulating Dinosaurs: A Political Anthropology. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.
- 2015 “Tripped up by Coloniality: Anthropologists as Instruments or Agents in Indigenous – Settler Political Relations?” Anthropologica 57(2): 427-443.
- 2015 "Consent, Collaboration, Treaty: Toward Anti-Colonial Praxes in Indigenous-Settler Research Relations." (Introduction) Anthropologica 57(2): 411-417.
- 2012 Report: Joining the Conversation: An Inventory and Report on Indigenous Research Engagement at Dalhousie University, Chair of Dalhouse Ad hoc Committee, and lead author (B. Noble, H. Castleden, D. Martin, K. Paul, F. Wien). [PDF - 846kB]
- 2008 “Owning as Belonging/ Owning as Property: The Crisis of Power and Respect in First Nations Heritage Transactions with Canada.” C. Bell and V. Napoleon (eds.) First Nations Cultural Heritage and Law (vol.1: Case Studies, Voices, Perspectives.) Vancouver: UBC Press, pp. 465-488. [PDF - 143 kB]
- 2007 "Justice, Transaction, Translation: Blackfoot Tipi Transfers and WIPO’s Search for the Facts of Traditional Knowledge Exchange.” American Anthropologist, Vol. 109, Issue 2, pp. 338–349.