Professor; Director, Indigenous Rights and Resource Governance Research Group; Faculty at the Balsillie School of International Affairs, Wilfrid Laurier University
Terry Mitchell is a Professor at the Balsillie School of International Affairs, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. She is a non-Indigenous scholar who has worked on Indigenous rights issues with Indigenous Peoples throughout her life. She is the Director of the Indigenous Rights and Resource Governance Research Group. Her current research funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) engages Indigenous Peoples and allied scholars within Canada and South America on studying the implementation of UNDRIP and the right to Free Prior and Informed Consent.
Experience
2003–present
Professor, Laurier, Balsillie School of International Affairs
Publications
2019
Realizing Indigenous Rights in the Context of Extractive Imperialism: Canada’s shifting and fledgling progress towards the implementation of UNDRIP. , International Critical Indigenous Journal
2019
Towards an Indigenous-Informed Relational Approach to Free, Prior, and Informed Consent (FPIC). , International Journal of Indigenous Policy.
2019
Colonial Trauma: Complex, continuous, collective, cumulative and compounding effects on the health of Indigenous peoples in Canada and beyond. , International Journal of Indigenous Health
Grants and Contracts
2015
Resource Governance and Indigenous Rights: Understanding intercultural frameworks for negotiating free prior and informed consent
Role:
Principal Investigator
Funding Source:
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada