Audra Mitchell
Audra Mitchell (she/her) is a guest on Haudenosaunee, Anishinaabe and Attawandaron/Neutral lands in what is currently called Canada. She holds the Canada Research Chair in Global Political Ecology at the Balsillie School of International Affairs.
Audra has published widely in the areas of normative international/global theory, ecological thought and violence studies. Her current major research program focuses on the efforts of Indigenous communities to resist global patterns of extinction rooted in large-scale structural violence. Audra’s other projects involve examining ecological, racial and gendered violence in the global textile industry; and contesting the racializing dynamics of mainstream discourses on eco-apocalypse. She is co-founder of the Creatures’ Collective, an international group of interdisciplinary Indigenous and non-Indigenous scholars working to address large-scale ecological harms. For more details, please see her Balsilllie School profile and her blog, Worldly IR.