Interview with Shiri Pasternak.

This interview is a part of a research work I’m undertaking to see how non indigenous people understand and engage in decolonizing work. View the blog, and all interviews at http://imasettler.blogspot.ca/.

Shiri talks about her solidarity and research work with the Algonquin community of Barrier Lake. Academic vs solidarity work. Disaster Tourism. Authority of academic institutional ethics processes vs community led relationship building. Responsibilities of academics working in indigenous communities. Transformative relationships. Her family's history in Israel and Canada, her "autobiography of territory". Why settlers should engage.