In this video, legal scholar Catherine Bell chats with IPinCH Project Ethnographer Alexis Bunten following the IPinCH "Cultural Commodification, Indigenous Peoples & Self-Determination" symposium & workshop.
Catherine discusses the idea of protection through commodification, strategies to change public consciousness on commodification, moral imperative and ethics, law reforms as well as alternatives to it.
鈥淲e have learned how to work in the spaces in-between because the law will only get us so far. It鈥檚 those spaces in between鈥� and ethics鈥� that can really help us deal with some of these issues where the law can鈥檛...We should be thinking about鈥ow we can empower indigenous law through ethics.鈥�
Catherine Bell is Professor of Law at the University of Alberta, specializing in Aboriginal legal issues, cultural heritage law and collaborative, community-based legal research. She is internationally recognized for her work in the area of cultural heritage law and Indigenous peoples. Alexis Bunten is the IPinCH Project Ethnographer.
Interview by Alexis Bunten. Video editing by Aynur Kadir. Filmed in May 2013. Music courtesy of Mique'l and Mike Dangeli of the .
Related Links
- Commodifications of Cultural Heritage (Research Theme)
- Indigenous Peoples, Cultural Heritage, and the Law (Research Theme)
- Indigenous Research Ethics (Research Theme)