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School of Child and Youth Care

Morgan Mowatt

A head-and-shoulders portrait of Morgan Mowatt on campus. They are pictured outdoors, wearing a black sweater.

Assistant Professor

School of Child & Youth Care

Accepting graduate students

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Credentials:
BA (VIU), MA (UVic), PhD (UVic)
Area(s) of expertise:
Indigenous sovereignty, law, authority; Indigenous rights and governance; community-building; Indigenous infant, child, and youth agency; and more-than-human politics.

Biography

Noxs Sim maa’y (Lax Seel) is Gitxsan, from Gitanmaax, through their late father Jack Mowatt (Diihadixs). Their multidisciplinary scholarship takes two broad approaches to Indigenous sovereignty. The first is human and more-than-human focused, which engages the many ways we conceptualize and actualize Indigenous sovereignty from our lands, waters, spirits, bodies, nations, relationships and more. The second takes on Indigenous-state diplomacies and the ways in which Indigenous legal and political authority (as process) shapes and transforms future possibilities between Indigenous nations and non-Indigenous peoples and institutions. Their work takes the form of academic interventions, arts-based healing praxes, community-led and participatory research, and educational content creation, among others. Indigenous sovereignty and our shared, liberated futures are accountable to feminist, queer, anti-capitalist, anti-racist, anti-ableist and anti-colonial ways of knowing and being, and they work to embed their scholarship and relationships within these frameworks.

Sample publications

Mowatt, M. (2026). Adultism in Canada and the Indigenous Democratic Alternative. Democratic Theory, 1–17. https://doi.org/10.1017/S2332889426000345

Temin, D. M., Mowatt, M., Ajl, M., & Henderson, P. (2026). Settler colonialism and political theory. Contemporary Political Theory, 25(1), Article 38. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41296-026-00820-0

Mowatt, M., Wildcat, M., & Starblanket, G. (2024). Indigenous Sovereignty and Political Science: Building an Indigenous Politics Subfield. Annual Review of Political Science, 27(1), 301–316. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-polisci-041322-050512 

Mowatt, M., de Finney, S., Wright Cardinal, S., Mowatt, G., Tenning, J., Haiyupis, P., Gilpin, E., Harris, D., MacLeod, A., & Claxton, N. X. (2020). ȻENTOL TŦE TEṈEW̱ (together with the land): Part 1: Indigenous land- and water-based pedagogies. International Journal of Child, Youth & Family Studies IJCYFS, 11(3), 12–33. https://doi.org/10.18357/ijcyfs113202019696