2024 Donald Smiley Prize
Winner: Sarah Marie Wiebe
Life Against States of Emergency: Revitalizing Treaty Relations from Attawapiskat (UBC Press)
Excerpt from jury report: In Life against States of Emergency: Revitalizing Treaty Relations from Attawaspiskat, Sarah Marie Wiebe offers a timely, urgent, and highly original study of resistance and resurgence, one that centres the voices, lives, and experiences of the Attawaspiskat community and offers hope for the realization of alternative decolonial futures. Grounded in a methodologically innovative and community-engaged approach that draws from art, activism, Indigenous studies scholarship, and multi-media storytelling, the book is a generative and evocative exploration of community- and relationship-building set against a backdrop of environmental justice and the revitalization of treaty relations.