Susan Reid, PhD

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Faculty of Creative and Critical Studies

Email: susan.reid@ubc.ca

Research Summary

Cultural studies, international law, laws of the sea, extractivism, environmental activism, oceanography; ecology, extinction, environmental studies, multibeing ontologies, multibeing justice, multispecies justice, climate change, biodiversity loss, pollution, ocean, feminist and queer studies, ecofeminism, embodiment, intersectionality, new (still!) materialism, social justice, de-colonial & anti-colonialism studies, anti-racism studies, transdisciplinarity; Contemporary art; Creative Research

Biography

Susan Reid is a postdoctoral fellow at UBC’s Faculty of Critical and Creative Studies who researches multibeing ontologies with a focus on human-ocean relationships, extractivism, and justice.

Susan’s transdisciplinary practice draws on expertise across cultural studies, environmental humanities, environmental activism, international ocean law, writing, and contemporary arts. Prior to joining UBCO, Susan was a key researcher within the ARC funded ‘Extracting the Ocean’ project, at the University of Sydney. Her professional experiences also encompass senior roles across arts management, curation, cultural development, and intellectual property law.

Susan’s ancestry includes Anglo-Celtic and mixed European settler heritage. She was born between the Solomon Sea and Pacific Ocean, on the main island of what is now known as the Autonomous Region of Bougainville. In Canada, she lives and works on unceded territories of the Syilx/Okanagan nation (Kelowna), and the Squamish, Tsleil-Waututh and Musqueam nations (Vancouver).

Degrees

PhD, University of Sydney; LlM (International Law), Australian National University; Grad Dip (Legal Practice), Australian National University; LlB (Law), Southern Cross University; M Design, University of Technology Sydney; Grad Dip (Arts Management), University of NSW; BA (Visual Arts), University of Newcastle

Selected Publications & Presentations

Monographs

Reid, S. “I Want to be a Better Predator: Multibeing in Troubled Seas,” Manuscript under development.

Edited Books

Feminist, Queer, Anticolonial Propositions for Hacking the Anthropocene: Archive. Open Humanities Press. Eds. Jennifer Mae Hamilton, Susan Reid, Pia van Gelder, Astrida Neimanis. Open Humanities Press. Open Humanities Press, 2021.

Book Chapters (Invited)

Reid, S. and Neimanis, A., “Water/Shelter.”   Co-authored with Neimanis, A.  In New Mineral Collective The Pleasure Report, ed. Jayne Wilkinson, 77-82. Information Report. Forthcoming.

Reid, S. “Imagining Justice with the Abyssal Ocean.” In Law of the Sea: Interdisciplinary Currents, ed. Irus Braverman, 68–91. Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2022.

Reid, S. “Taking Code to Sea.” In Thinking Ecologically, Thinking Responsibly: The Legacies of Lorraine Code, eds. McHugh, N. A. and Doucet, A., 263–284. NY: SUNY Press, 2021.

Reid, S. “take a parcel of ocean” 1., In Feminist, Queer, Anticolonial Propositions for Hacking the Anthropocene: Archive, eds. Hamilton, J.M., Reid, S., van Gelder, P. & Neimanis, A. Open Humanities Press, 2021.

Reid, S. “Solwara 1 and the Sessile Ones.” In Blue Legalities: The Life and Laws of the Sea, eds. Braverman, R., and Johnson, E. R., 25-44. Duke University Press, 2020.

Reid, S. “Transitioning Currents in Times of Climate Change.” In Living with the Sea, eds. Brown, M and Peters, K., 114–28. Routledge, 2018.

Selected Refereed Journals

Reid, S. “Multibeing Ocean.” Manuscript submitted for publication.

Reid, S. and Neimanis, A. “Multibeing Drag Rift.” 2024. Video performance/text submitted for publication.

Reid, S. “Deranged Flows: Extracting Oceanic Agency.” Manuscript submitted for publication.

Reid, S. “Ocean Justice: Reckoning with Material Vulnerability.” Cultural Politics, Vol. 19, Issue 1, (2023): 107–127.

Reid, S. “Justice Through a Multispecies Lens.” (Part of Critical Exchange, D. Celermajer et al, “Justice through a Multispecies Lens.”). Contemporary Political Theory. Vol. 19 (2020): 475-512.

The Piddock Clam Collective. (Hamilton, J. M., MacLeod, J., McGiffin, E., Neimanis, A., Reid, S., and Sandilands, C.). “Wrack Writing (Selections).” Feminist Review 130 (1) (2022): 115–19.

Professional Services/Affiliations/Committees

University of Sydney