Human-riparian relating at valley-bottom : modes, methods, and marshes
department or school: Creative and Critical Studies, Faculty of (Okanagan)
data provider: DSpace
degree campus: UBCO
creator: Donald, Madeline Carroll
issued: 2024-05-16T21:51:55Z
issued: 2024
related degree: Doctor of Philosophy - PhD
degree grantor: University of British Columbia
description: This thesis is an investigation into human modes and methods of interaction with Okanagan riparian habitats. In it I tell two stories: 1) a story of doing research with riparian places, and 2) a story of a particular riparian place. The first story is about, and part of, research done by me, a visitor-scholar (non-Indigenous to this place), and prioritizes the ethics of multi-being relations and multimodality in its formulation and communication. The second story explores the riparian place forming in the margins of Brandt’s Creek, at the bottom of the Okanagan Valley, in syilx territory and Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada. The riparian here is in the process of becoming, a product of its unruly heritage and the spectral ecologies that both precede and co-exist with it. The research process described is one of creating thickness in relationships to place—both mine and others’—by layering varied ways-of-being and doing. These methods were learned and developed in multi-being conversation with and about the riparian and create an experience of corrugation, which amplifies attention in a time and place by making connections to prior experiences. In the semi-arid Okanagan, riparian habitats are the wettest places a non-aquatic being can be. As such, riparian places are important meshworks of relations and possibilities for habitation. They are also places of categorical inconsistency—seasonally contingent, neither land nor water—made marginal through settler colonial and capitalist practices of invasion and acquisition, and an imaginary of place that relies on place-as-property. These two stories explore modes and methods for the analysis of settler colonial socio-ecologies—manifestations of relations between humans and the multi-being and diverse material worlds in which we live—with a focus on living sustainably in and among wetness.
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note: Human-riparian relating at valley-bottom: Modes, methods, and marshes by Madeline Carroll Donald BA&Sc, McGill University, 2015 MSc, Wageningen University and Research, 2019 A DISSERTATION SUBMITTED IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE DEGREE OF DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY in THE COLLEGE OF GRADUATE STUDIES (Interdisciplinary Studies) (Sustainability) THE UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA (Okanagan) May 2024 © Madeline Carroll Donald, 2024 ii The following individuals certify that they have read, and recommend to the College of Graduate Studies for acceptance, a dissertation entitled: Human-riparian relating at valley-bottom: Modes, methods, and marshes submitted by Madeline Carroll Donald in partial fulfillment of the requirements of the degree of Doctor of Philosophy . Dr. Greg Garrard, Faculty of Creative and Critical Studies Supervisor Dr. Natalie Forssman, Irving K. Barber Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences Co-Supervisor Dr. John Wagner, Irving K. Barber Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences Supervisory Committee Member Dr. Tess Lea, Irving K. Barber Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences Supervisory Committee Member Dr. Virginie Magnat, Faculty of Creative and Critical Studies University Examiner Dr. Catriona Sandilands, York University External Examiner iii abstract This thesis is an investigation into human modes and methods of interaction with Okanagan riparian habitats. In it I tell two stories: 1) a story of doing research with riparian places, and 2) a story of a particular riparian place. The first story is about, and part of, research done by me, a visitor-scholar (non-Indigenous to this place), and prioritizes the ethics of multi-being relations and multimodality in its formulation and communication. The second story explores the riparian place forming in the margins of Brandt’s Creek, at the bottom of the Okanagan Valley, in syilx territory and Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada. The riparian here is in the process of becoming, a product of its unruly…
has type: Thesis/Dissertation
date issued: 2024-09
is shown at: 10.14288/1.0443554
language: eng
degree discipline: Interdisciplinary Studies
provider: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
publisher: University of British Columbia
rights: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
rights URI: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
scholar level: Graduate
contributor: Garrard, Greg
contributor: Forssman, Natalie
type: Text
identifier URI: http://hdl.handle.net/2429/88332