Bobbie Chew Bigby
Bobbie Chew Bigby - Indigenous Internationalism: Journeys of meaningful connectons between countries, communities, and cultures
The Office of Indigenous Relations and the Department of Recreation and Leisure Studies (Faculty of Health) are pleased to co-host a presentation by Bobbie Chew Bigby, postdoctoral fellow at University of Waterloo.
Bobbie is excited and honored to engage with the University of Waterloo community through this talk and dialogue. Beginning by first sharing some personal stories from her background and home base in Oklahoma Indian Country, Bobbie aims to sketch some of the many lines of connection between the lands and communities of the Waterloo area and Oklahoma. Turning next to an overview of her learning journey, research trajectory, and recent PhD dissertation, Bobbie will highlight her work documenting Indigenous-led tourism and resurgence across Indigenous Australia and beyond. Images and stories from fieldwork in both Australia and the US will be shared, along with reflections from navigating research in the recent period of the COVID-19 pandemic. Finally, Bobbie’s more recent research work on documenting and standing in solidarity with Indigenous-led toxic tours of environmentally assaulted land and waterscapes will be briefly covered, along with an overview of other projects that are part of her postdoctoral fellowship. Following the presentation, Bobbie looks forward to an extended question-and-answer and dialogue period to engage in conversation with the UW community.