Recreation and Leisure Studies ProfessorÌýBryan GrimwoodÌýandÌýco-investigators (includingÌýLori CampbellÌýandÌýLisbeth BerbaryÌýat UÀ¶Ý®ÊÓƵ), haveÌýsecured a $278,000 Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC)ÌýInsight grant for a project calledÌýUnsettling Tourism: Settler Stories, Indigenous Lands, and Awakening an Ethics of Reconciliation. The five-year study will examine tourism's effects on Indigenous lands and peoples,Ìýsupport Indigenous community research capacities to maintain cultural narratives and values, and create spaces for reflecting on and challenging tourism’s role in reconciliation. The study will build onÌýcurrent relationships between academic and Indigenous communities.
"Tourism is a powerful social force that can either foster or thwart the establishment and maintenance of respectful relationships between IndigenousÌýpeoples and Settlers called for by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada," the application said. "This project will expand national and international tourism research and teaching founded on commitments to Indigenous rights, justice, and collaboration."
GrimwoodÌýwas one of several University of À¶Ý®ÊÓƵ researchers to receive aÌýSSHRCÌýgrant. See the Office of Research for a list ofÌýother recipients.