Asselin, Jodie
Associate Professor
- Phone
- (403) 317-2878
- jodie.asselin@uleth.ca
About Me
My area of interest lies in cultural and environmental anthropology with a focus on rurality, rural/urban relations, local knowledge, environmental history, northern environments, and ideas of place. More specifically my work has taken place in rural and northern Canada and rural Ireland, focusing in the areas of agriculture, hunting, trapping, environmentalism and forestry, through a political and historical ecology perspective.
I am interested in how people understand place, how contemporary environmental understandings can be grounded in historic interpretations, and how knowledge of place can be relevant and pertinent knowledge in the face of development.
I am interested in how people understand place, how contemporary environmental understandings can be grounded in historic interpretations, and how knowledge of place can be relevant and pertinent knowledge in the face of development.
Biography
Co-Director of the Center for Oral History and Tradition, University of Lethbridge (2021-2024) https://www.ulethbridge.ca/research/centres-institutes/centre-oral-history-and-tradition
Founding Member of the Community Bridge Lab for qualitative and community-engaged research https://www.ulethbridge.ca/liberal-education/community-bridge-lab-university-lethbridge
2020 onward: Associate Professor of Anthropology, 2021-2023- Co-Director for the Center of Oral History and Tradition
2015-2019: Assistant Professor of Anthropology, University of Lethbridge
2013-2015: Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Family Medicine, University of Alberta
2013: PhD in Cultural Anthropology: Faculty of Arts, Department of Anthropology, University of Alberta, Edmonton AB, Canada.
2007: MA in Cultural Anthropology: Faculty of Arts, Department of Anthropology, University of Alberta, Edmonton AB, Canada.
2004: BA in Human Geography and Anthropology , Department of Geography, Department of Anthropology, Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
Founding Member of the Community Bridge Lab for qualitative and community-engaged research https://www.ulethbridge.ca/liberal-education/community-bridge-lab-university-lethbridge
2020 onward: Associate Professor of Anthropology, 2021-2023- Co-Director for the Center of Oral History and Tradition
2015-2019: Assistant Professor of Anthropology, University of Lethbridge
2013-2015: Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Family Medicine, University of Alberta
2013: PhD in Cultural Anthropology: Faculty of Arts, Department of Anthropology, University of Alberta, Edmonton AB, Canada.
2007: MA in Cultural Anthropology: Faculty of Arts, Department of Anthropology, University of Alberta, Edmonton AB, Canada.
2004: BA in Human Geography and Anthropology , Department of Geography, Department of Anthropology, Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
Publications
Asselin, J. Asselin, G. Egli, F. (2022) The Discursive Context of Forest in Land Use Documents: An Irish Case Study. In Nature and Culture. 17 (2)
Asselin, J. (2022) Plantation Politics and Discourse: Forests and Property in Upland Ireland. In Economic Anthropology. Vol 9:2, 336-348
Asselin (2021) Put Your Body Into It: Exploring Imagination Through Enskillment in Outdoor women's Camps. In Kazubowski-Houston,M. and Auslander M. (Eds) In Search of Lost Futures. Palgrave Macmillan
Asselin, J., Mee, A. (2019). Duhallow: A Living Landscape for Farming and Wildlife. Cork: IRD Duhallow.
Asselin, J (2019) Outdoor Women: Thinking about gender, environment, and hunting through rural enskillment programs. Anthropologica, in press for Fall 2019.
Asselin, J. (2016) Experience and Place Making in Contested Forests. In the Journal of Sustainability Education. February 2016.
Fletcher F., Hibbert, A., Robertson, F., Asselin, J. (2013) Local Strategies for Local Context: Strong Partnerships are Critical for Positive Community Engagement. (2013) Gateways: International Journal of Community Research and Engagement.
Asselin, J., Konczal, A. (2013). Shifting Perceptions: a comparative case study of forest perceptions in Yukon, Canada and the Tuchola forest region of Poland. Studies and Materials of the Forest Culture Centrein Gołuchów (Studia i Materiały Ośrodka Kultury Leśnej w Gołuchowie). 12, 9-23.
Asselin, J. (2013) If a Tree Falls, for whom does it Make a Sound? Multilocality and multivocality in Yukon Forests. Nuttall, M., Tervo-Kankare, K.., Karjalainen, T. P. (eds.) Nordia Geographical Publications Yearbook: Negotiating resources, engaging people. Human environment relations in the North 2012. 41(5) 61-83.
Asselin, J., and Parkins, J. (2009). The comparative case study as social impact assessment: possibilities and limitations for anticipating social change in the far north. In: Journal of Social Indicators Research. 94:483-497
Accepted for Publication:
Asselin, J (n.d.) The Human Nature of Northern Wilderness: tracing forest use in the Yukon Territory since the Klondike Gold Rush. Canada's Forests: Thematic Perspectives (Volume I). ANU Press.
Working Manuscripts
Asselin, J (n.d.) Troublesome Ground: A political ecology of farming in upland Ireland. University Press of Colorado. Contract offered, first draft complete.
Asselin, J. (2022) Plantation Politics and Discourse: Forests and Property in Upland Ireland. In Economic Anthropology. Vol 9:2, 336-348
Asselin (2021) Put Your Body Into It: Exploring Imagination Through Enskillment in Outdoor women's Camps. In Kazubowski-Houston,M. and Auslander M. (Eds) In Search of Lost Futures. Palgrave Macmillan
Asselin, J., Mee, A. (2019). Duhallow: A Living Landscape for Farming and Wildlife. Cork: IRD Duhallow.
Asselin, J (2019) Outdoor Women: Thinking about gender, environment, and hunting through rural enskillment programs. Anthropologica, in press for Fall 2019.
Asselin, J. (2016) Experience and Place Making in Contested Forests. In the Journal of Sustainability Education. February 2016.
Fletcher F., Hibbert, A., Robertson, F., Asselin, J. (2013) Local Strategies for Local Context: Strong Partnerships are Critical for Positive Community Engagement. (2013) Gateways: International Journal of Community Research and Engagement.
Asselin, J., Konczal, A. (2013). Shifting Perceptions: a comparative case study of forest perceptions in Yukon, Canada and the Tuchola forest region of Poland. Studies and Materials of the Forest Culture Centrein Gołuchów (Studia i Materiały Ośrodka Kultury Leśnej w Gołuchowie). 12, 9-23.
Asselin, J. (2013) If a Tree Falls, for whom does it Make a Sound? Multilocality and multivocality in Yukon Forests. Nuttall, M., Tervo-Kankare, K.., Karjalainen, T. P. (eds.) Nordia Geographical Publications Yearbook: Negotiating resources, engaging people. Human environment relations in the North 2012. 41(5) 61-83.
Asselin, J., and Parkins, J. (2009). The comparative case study as social impact assessment: possibilities and limitations for anticipating social change in the far north. In: Journal of Social Indicators Research. 94:483-497
Accepted for Publication:
Asselin, J (n.d.) The Human Nature of Northern Wilderness: tracing forest use in the Yukon Territory since the Klondike Gold Rush. Canada's Forests: Thematic Perspectives (Volume I). ANU Press.
Working Manuscripts
Asselin, J (n.d.) Troublesome Ground: A political ecology of farming in upland Ireland. University Press of Colorado. Contract offered, first draft complete.
Research Interests
Environmental anthropology
Political Forests
Rural and northern North America, Circumpolar North
Rural Ireland
Rural/urban relations
Place
Environmental use and perception in the context of land use planning
Environmental history
I also have an interest in interdisciplinary dynamics and cross-discipline methodologies, specifically in relation to contemporary medical research teams.
Political Forests
Rural and northern North America, Circumpolar North
Rural Ireland
Rural/urban relations
Place
Environmental use and perception in the context of land use planning
Environmental history
I also have an interest in interdisciplinary dynamics and cross-discipline methodologies, specifically in relation to contemporary medical research teams.