Contact
Email:
heather.dorries@utoronto.ca
Heather Dorries is an assistant professor jointly appointed to the Department of Geography and Planning and the Center for Indigenous Studies at the University of Toronto. Her research focuses on the relationship between urban planning and settler colonialism and examines how Indigenous intellectual traditions—including Indigenous environmental knowledge, legal orders, and cultural production—can serve as the foundation for justice-oriented approaches to planning.
She is of Anishinaabe and settler ancestry and a member of Sagkeeng First Nation in Treaty One.
RCC Research Project: Indigenous Political Ecologies and Floodwater Governance
Selected Publications:
- with Michelle Daigle, eds. Land Back: Relational Landscapes of Indigenous Resistance Across the Americas. Washington and Cambridge: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Harvard University Press, forthcoming.
- “What Is Planning without Property? Relational Practices of Being and Belonging.” Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 40, no. 2 (January 2022): 306–18. https://doi.org/10.1177/02637758211068505.
- with David Hugill and Julia Tomiak. “Racial Capitalism and the Settler Colonial Relation: Notes from Winnipeg, Manitoba.” Geoforum 132 (June 2022): 263–70. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2019.07.016.
- “Indigenous Urbanism as an Analytic: Towards Indigenous Urban Theory.” International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 47, no. 1 (November 2022): 110–8. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-2427.13129.
- with Laura Harjo. “Beyond Safety: Refusing Colonial Violence Through Indigenous Feminist Planning.” Journal of Planning Education and Research 40 (January 2020), no. 2: 210–9. https://doi.org/10.1177/0739456X19894382.
- with Robert Henry, David Hugill, Tyler McCreary and Julie Tomiak, eds. Settler City Limits: Indigenous Resurgence and Colonial Violence in the Urban Prairie West. Winnipeg: University of Manitoba Press, 2019.