About Janette's Work
Janette Bulkan is a Professor, and Associate Dean of Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI)in the Faculty of Forestry, University of British Columbia. Janette teaches and researches on green extractivism, Indigenous and traditional knowledges, community forestry and independent third-party forest certification systems. Janette is the Coordinator of the International Union of Forest Research Organisations (IUFRO) Working Party 9.03.07 on Indigenous Peoples and Forest Landscapes, and a member of IUFRO Task Force T48 on Gender, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion in Forest-related sectors.
She is interested in new forms of enclosures, both de jure and de facto, often mediated by the power of the State and its allies. Those enclosures are increasingly not about territory, but about proprietary access to hydrocarbons, timber, and minerals, and associated intangible products and services, that are often incorporated into complex anastomosing supply chains.