How is suicide an issue of justice? How should our care for people experiencing suicidality  connect with the Land and Water in which people live? What does it mean to care for the life of Land and Water as well as the lives of people? Special guest Dr. Jeffrey Ansloos joins us for a conversation about how colonialism features in the creation of unlivable conditions, threatening the well-being of Indigenous and First Nations communities in particular.

Jeffrey Ansloos is an Associate Professor of Indigenous Health and Social Policy at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto. Prof. Ansloos is a community health, social policy, community psychology, and Indigenous studies scholar, with a global reputation for his research on Indigenous health justice and social and environmental dimensions of mental health, suicide, and houselessness. You can follow him on Twitter/X at @jeffreyansloos and find out more on his university profile.

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Sources

“A question of justice: Critically researching suicide with Indigenous studies of affect, biosociality, and land-based relations” by Jeffrey Ansloos and Shanna Peltier

“Hydrocolonial Affects: Suicide and the Somatechnics of Long-term Drinking Water Advisories in First Nations in Canada” by Jeffrey Ansloos

“Is Suicide a Water Justice Issue? Investigating Long-Term Drinking Water Advisories and Suicide in First Nations in Canada” by Jeffrey Ansloos and Annelies Cooper

“Grieving geographies, mourning waters: Life, death, and environmental gendered racialized struggles in Mexico” by Meztli Yoalli Rodríguez Aguilera

Negative Ecologies: Fossil Fuels and the Discovery of the Environment by David Bond

Activist Affordances: How Disabled People Improvise More Habitable Worlds by Arseli Dokumaci

Experiences of Depression: A Study in Phenomenology by Matthew Radcliffe