Assistant Professor in Indigenous Studies, University of Manitoba
Dr. Merissa Daborn is a white scholar and an Assistant Professor in the Department of Indigenous Studies at the University of Manitoba where she researches at the intersections of food, technoscience, surveillance, policing, policy, and whiteness.
Her latest research is focussed on the relationship between citizen surveillance, policing, and grocery stores as carceral spaces in Winnipeg.
Merissa is a member of the Indigenous STS Lab in the Faculty of Native Studies at the University of Alberta. She is dedicated to research in the areas of urban Indigenous studies and Indigenous STS (science, technology, and society).
Policing is not the answer to shoplifting, feeding people is
Nov 29, 2023 06:05 am UTC| Law
Big businesses like to tell us that, as consumers, we all pay for food theft. Weve been sold a narrative that as consumers who dont steal, we pay for the theft of food by others on our grocery receipts. Reported...
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