Keith Cherry
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Credentials
BA and MA in Political Science (University of Ottawa), PhD in Law & Society (University of Victoria)
Area of expertise
comparative transnational law, legal pluralism, Indigenous/settler relations, European Union, democratic theory, agonism, social movement politics, decolonization, anarchism.
Keith Cherry holds an MA in Political Studies from the University of Ottawa, a PhD in Law and Society from the University of Victoria, and a post-doctoral degree in Law from the University of Alberta, supported by a Killam Fellowship. He is a founding member of the Cedar Trees Institute, a SSHRC post-doctoral scholar at the University of McGill’s faculty of Law, and a sessional instructor at the University of Victoria.
Keith’s research interests include comparative pluralism, settler-Indigenous relations, the European Union, agonistic politics, social movement politics, and pluralism in social movement praxis. Much of his scholarship compares the relationship between Canadian and Indigenous governance structures with the relationship between the European Union and its member-states.
Work
During his time at the Center for Global Studies, Keith conducted a political, legal and economic comparison of pluralism in Canadian/Indigenous relations and EU/Member-state relations, mapping the similarities and differences in approaches to pluralism across two very different settings and exploring the possibilities of post-Westphalian, post-sovereign political community.