WSÁNEĆ Legal Theory and the Fuel Spill at SELEKTEL (Goldstream River)
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Abstract
SELEK̵TEL̵ (Goldstream River), on Coast Salish territory on Southern Vancouver Island in British Columbia, is an important salmon spawning river and fishing location for the W SÁNEĆ (Saanich) people. On April 16, 2011, it was also the site of a diesel and gasoline spill. In this article, I explore the processes of revitalizing W SÁNEĆ law and how we might think about the revitalization of W SÁNEĆ law in the context of this fuel spill. While I do not present a definitive statement of the application of W SÁNEĆ law, I explore what is needed in order to understand W SÁNEĆ law on its own terms. I turn to W SÁNEĆ stories to ground my understanding of W SÁNEĆ law in a different cosmological and ontological framework, and begin to explore the implications this different framework has for understanding the fuel spill and a W SÁNEĆ approach to “law”. I argue that this framework requires a greater attribution of “being” and “agency” to land, with an emphasis on repairing and maintaining relationships in an encompassing way. In exploring the implications of this shift in framework, I problematize the notions of “jurisdiction” and “remedy”. Specifically, rather than approaching the relationship to land through the idea of jurisdictional authority over it, I argue that W SÁNEĆ law develops a perspective centred on our mutual responsibilities with and to land. I also argue that the notion of jurisdiction can compartmentalize and limit W SÁNEĆ law’s attention to the encompassing nature of our relationships to land. Similarly, as opposed to engaging W SÁNEĆ law only to find a remedy, we must step back and consider how the harm of the fuel spill would be characterized within the distinctive framework of W SÁNEĆ law.
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| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.004 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
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