Omar Ferwati
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Omar Ferwati's PhD research project
Opensource Resistance: Counterforensics, Indigenous Sovereignty, and Climate Justice
My research proposes an activist framework for supporting indigenous resistance to infringements on their sovereignty and threats to their lifeworld in the form of climate crisis and ecological destruction.
Indigenous people people gather at the Ontario Legislature to demand a meeting with Premier Doug Ford.
This project conceptualises the resistance camp, like those we’ve seen at the sites of pipeline construction in Western Canada, as sites embedded with counterforensic methods to document and analyse state and environmental violence as it happens, make public claims about those events, and strategize effective resistance action against it. This project would lend itself to existing Indigenous movements of resistance to extractive infrastructure in Canada.