The Internationals Political Economy and Ecology (IPEE) Summer School invites applications from graduate students and other interested individuals. The number of participants in the course will be limited to 30. Places are reserved for York students from the sponsoring graduate programs in Geography and Environmental Studies, but does not guarantee admission. Application Deadline: April 15, 2026 • Academic credit value for the IPEE Summer School is 3.0 credits. • You must submit a brief statement of why you want to take the course and list your background and qualifications. • For those who are not seeking academic credit, the fee for the Summer School is $600 CDN (payable to York University at time of enrolment). • Students selected to enroll in this course will be notified by e-mail in mid-May. COURSE INFORMATION Jurisdiction Back - Restoring Indigenous Governance in the Wake of Extraction June 1-9, 2026 (9:00 am to 3:00 pm, EST time) This interdisciplinary course examines “Indigenous jurisdiction” as inherent governing authority: a living, practiced form of collective governance, with particular attention to how it is disrupted in contexts of ongoing settler colonial extractivism. Drawing on political theory, Indigenous legal geographies, Indigenous feminisms and environmental justice writing and practice, the course explores how extractive regimes have reshaped land, law, and authority, and how Indigenous nations continue to assert and exercise jurisdiction through refusal, resurgence, and governing according to an ethics of care. Students will engage with Indigenous political thought alongside case studies from across Turtle Island, focusing on struggles over land, consent, infrastructure, and environmental decision-making. The course is grounded in Indigenous analyses of sovereignty, relationality, obligation and responsibility, asking what it means to “bring jurisdiction back”. Co-taught by Susan Hill (Associate Professor & Director for Indigenous Studies, University of Toronto) and Heidi Kiiwetinepinesiik Stark (Associate Professor, Indigenous Governance, University of Victoria), alongside other Indigenous and anti-colonial activists and scholars, the course emphasizes land-based learning and practice, collaborative and critical engagement, and theories grounded in relationality. Students will strive to think critically beyond state extractivism and colonial authority, in order to imagine political and legal futures centred around restoring Indigenous laws and lifeworlds.