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Nicole Gombay

Professeure agrégée

Faculté des arts et des sciences - Département de géographie

Complexe des sciences, room B-6413

514 343-6111 #10552

nicole.gombay@umontreal.ca

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Teaching and supervision

Teaching

Courses taught (current session only)

Programs

Student supervision

Theses and dissertation supervision (Papyrus Institutional Repository)

Projects

Research projects

2022 - 2028

Inhabiting altered worlds: sensory experiences following traumatic brain injuries

Lead researcher : Nicole Gombay
Co-researchers : Gavin Andrews
Funding sources: CRSH/Conseil de recherches en sciences humaines du Canada
Grant programs: PVXXXXXX-Subvention Savoir

Outreach

Publications and presentations

Publications

Gombay, Nicole and Marcela Palomino-Schalscha (eds.) Indigenous Places and Colonial Spaces: the Politics of Intertwined Relations. Abingdon: Routledge, 2019.

Gombay, Nicole and Marcela Palomino-Schalscha. “(Trans)forming Indigenous-settler colonial relations” in Indigenous Places and Colonial Spaces: the Politics of Intertwined Relations, N. Gombay & M. Palomino-Schalscha (eds.) Abingdon: Routledge, 2019, pp. 1-30.

Gombay, Nicole. “‘There’s no one way of doing things’: Wildlife management and environmentality in Nunavik” Hunter and Gatherer Research. 3(4), 2019, pp. 651-675.

Gombay, Nicole. “Wildlife Management in Nunavik: Structures, Operations, and Perceptions following the James Bay and Northern Quebec Agreement” Arctic. 72(2), 2019, pp. 181-198.

Mohamed, Mizna, Nicole Gombay, & John Pirker. “Development and the sacred: An account of reef resource management in the Maldives” International Journal of Social Research and Innovation. 3(1), 2019, pp. 1-22.

Gombay, Nicole. “Just Enough to Survive: economic citizenship in the context of Indigenous land claimsSharing Economies in Times of Crisis: Practices, Politics and Possibilities. Anthony Ince & Sarah M. Hall (eds.) London: Routledge, 2018, pp. 160-174.

Gombay, Nicole. “A role for Indigenous peoples in Canada’s trade talks” Policy Options Politiques. Montréal: Institute for Research on Public Policy, 2017. policyoptions.irpp.org/magazines/december-2017/a-role-for-indigenous-peoples-in-canadas-trade-talks/

Gombay, Nicole. « L’économie du don : objets, valeurs et relations sociales » (“The Gift: Objects, Values, and Social Relations”) L’économie circulaire: un transition incontournable. Sébastien Sauvé, Daniel Normandin, Mélanie McDonald (eds.) Montréal: les Presses de l’Université de Montréal, 2016, pp. 120-124. www.pum.umontreal.ca/catalogue/leconomie-circulaire ; www.pum.umontreal.ca/files/prod/livres_fichiers/9782760636767.pdf

Gombay, Nicole, Dorothee Schreiber, Selma Ford and Stephanie Meakin. “Submission to the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights on the Right to Health and Indigenous Peoples with a Focus on the Mental Health of Inuit Children and Youth” Report written for the Inuit Circumpolar Council, 2016. www.ohchr.org/Documents/Issues/IPeoples/EMRIP/Health/InuitCircumpolarCouncil.pdf

Gombay, Nicole. “‘There are mentalities that need changing’: Constructing Personhood, Formulating Citizenship, and Performing Subjectivities on a Settler Colonial Frontier” Political Geography. Vol. 48, 2015, pp. 11-23.

Gombay, Nicole. “‘Poaching’ – What’s in a name? Debates about Law, Property, and Protection in the context of settler colonialism” Geoforum. Vol. 55, 2014, pp. 1-12.

Gombay, Nicole. « Oubliez la faune et la flore et vivez par l’argent » : le Plan Nord, l’économie et le développement nordique » (“‘Forget about wildlife and live with money’: Plan Nord, the economy, and northern development”) Géographie, économie, société. Vol. 15, no. 4, 2013, pp. 327-344. 

Gombay, Nicole. “Land Claims, Property, and Aboriginal Peoples in Canada” Human Geography: People, Place, and Culture (Canadian edition) by Fouberg, E.H., A.B. Murphy, H.J. de Blij, C. J. Nash. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 2012, pp. 326-327.

Gombay, Nicole. “Placing Economies: Lessons from Inuit about Economics, Time, and Existence” Journal of Cultural Geography Vol. 29, no. 1, 2012, pp. 19-38.

Coombes, Brad, Nicole Gombay, Jay Johnson, Wendy Shaw. “The Challenges of/from Indigenous Geographies” A Companion to Social Geography. Vincent Del Casino, Mary Thomas, Paul Cloke and Ruth Panelli (eds.) Oxford: Blackwell Publishing Ltd., 2011, pp. 472-489.

Gombay, Nicole. “Food, Obligation, & Community: lessons from the moral geography of InuitGeografiska Annaler: Series B, Human Geography Vol. 92, no. 3, 2010, pp. 237-250.

Gombay, Nicole. Making a Living: Place, Food, and Economy in an Inuit Community. Vancouver: UBC Press/Purich Publishing, 2010.

Gombay, Nicole. “‘Today is today and tomorrow is tomorrow’: Reflections on Inuit Understanding of Time and Place” Proceedings of the 15th Inuit Studies Conference, Beatrice Collignon and Michelle Therrien (eds.) Paris: INALCO/CNRS, www.inuitoralityconference.com, 2009. 

Gombay, Nicole. “Sharing or Commoditsing? A discussion of the socio-economic implications of Nunavik’s Hunter Support Program” Polar Record, V. 45, no. 233, 2009, pp. 119-132.

Gombay, Nicole. “From Subsistence to Commercial Fishing in Northern Canada: the experience of an Inuk entrepreneur” British Food Journal Vol. 108, no. 7, 2006, pp. 502-521.

Gombay, Nicole. “Shifting Identities in a Shifting World: Food, Place, Community, and the Politics of Scale in an Inuit Settlement” Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, V. 23, 2005, pp. 415-433.

Gombay, Nicole. “The Commoditisation of Country Foods in Nunavik: an overview of its development, applications, and significance” Arctic, V. 58, no. 2, 2005, pp. 115-128.

Gombay, Nicole. “The Politics of Culture: gender parity in the legislative assembly of Nunavut” Études/Inuit/Studies V.24, no. 1, 2000, pp. 125-148.

Disciplines

  • Human Geography
  • Sociology

Areas of expertise

  • Settler colonialism
  • Indigenous Peoples
  • Economic geography
  • Cultural geography
  • Diverse economies