Morgan Mowatt
Position
Status
Starting January, 2025
Contact
Credentials
BA (UVIC), MA (UVIC), PhD (UVIC)
Area of expertise
Indigenous legal and political authority/sovereignty; Indigenous-state governance and 鈥渞ights鈥� relating to families, communities, nations and environment; Indigenous youth education, empowerment, and belonging; community and youth arts-based praxes; Indigenous (youth and community) gender, sexuality, and wellness; Indigenous liberation and inter-community relationships; and non-reformist reform relating to Indigenous peoples and our various intersecting identities.
Brief Bio:
My name is Noxs Sim maa’y (Lax Seel) and I am Gitxsan, from Gitanmaax, through my late father Jack Mowatt (Diihadixs). My multidisciplinary scholarship takes two broad approaches to Indigenous sovereignty. The first is human and more-than-human focused, which engages the many ways we conceptualize and actualize Indigenous sovereignty from our lands, waters, spirits, bodies, nations, relationships and more. The second takes on Indigenous-state diplomacies and the ways in which Indigenous legal and political authority (as process) shapes and transforms future possibilities between Indigenous nations and the state.
In community I work with IRS survivors, Black, Indigenous, and communities of colour and especially young people (from k-12 and young adults) to support their varied visions for community-building, empowerment and future-building. My work takes the form of academic interventions, arts-based healing praxes, community-led and participatory research, and educational content creation, among others. Indigenous sovereignty and our shared, liberated futures are accountable to feminist, queer, anti-capitalist, anti-racist, anti-ableist and anti-colonial ways of knowing and being, and I work to embed all my scholarship and relationships within these frameworks.
Research Interests: Indigenous legal and political authority/sovereignty; Indigenous-state governance and “rights” relating to families, communities, nations and environment; Indigenous youth education, empowerment, and belonging; community and youth arts-based praxes; Indigenous (youth and community) gender, sexuality, and wellness; Indigenous liberation and inter-community relationships; and non-reformist reform relating to Indigenous peoples and our various intersecting identities.
Sample Publications:
Mowatt, M., Wildcat, M., & Starblanket, G. (2024). Indigenous Sovereignty and Political Science: Building an Indigenous Politics Subfield. Annual Review of Political Science, 27(1), 301–316.
Mowatt, M., de Finney, S., Wright Cardinal, S., Mowatt, G., Tenning, J., Haiyupis, P., Gilpin, E., Harris, D., MacLeod, A., & Claxton, N. X. (2020). ȻENTOL TŦE TEṈEW̱ (together with the land): Part 1: Indigenous land- and water-based pedagogies. International Journal of Child, Youth & Family Studies IJCYFS, 11(3), 12–33.
de Finney, S., Wright Cardinal, S., Mowatt, M., Claxton, N. X., Alphonse, D., Underwood, T., Kelly, L., & Andrew, K. (2020). ȻENTOL TŦE TEṈEW̱ (together with the land) Part 2: Indigenous Frontline Practice as Resurgence. International Journal of Child, Youth & Family Studies IJCYFS, 11(3), 34–55.