BENJAMIN J. KAPRON, Ph.D.

Publications

PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS

Kapron, B. J. (2025). "So Great Was the Rush of Water": Speculative Histories of Other-than-Human Survivance Against the Trent-Severn Waterway. Radical Histories of Decolonization, issue of Radical History Review, 153, 34-59. https://doi.org/10.1215/01636545-11853764

 

Phare, M. S., B. J. Kapron, E. R. Hoppe, C. Sklar, M. Miltenberger, J. Bear, L. Bill, O. M. Brandes, P. Wilson, R. Farthing-Nichol, and D. Helmesi. (2025). Reconciliatory water governance: Reflections on the Collaborative Leadership Initiative as a means of transforming water governance in Canada. The Next Wave in Water Governance, special feature of Ecology and Society, 30(4). https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-16591-300417

 

Kapron, B. J. (2025). Other-than-Human Survivance Against the Trent-Severn Waterway. Arcadia: Explorations in Environmental History, Spring 2025(4). https://www.environmentandsociety.org/node/9935

 

Kapron, B. J. (2022). Storying futures of the always-already extinct: Challenging human exceptionalism; exploring animal survivance. UnderCurrents: Journal of Critical Environmental Studies, 21, 26-34. https://doi.org/10.25071/2292-4736/40296

 

 

NON-PEER REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS

Iannicello, S. & Kapron, B. J. (Eds.) (2022). Memories and Futurities. UnderCurrents: Journal of Critical Environmental Studies, 21. https://currents.journals.yorku.ca/index.php/currents/issue/view/2205

 

Kapron, B. J. (2018, April 27). A triptych of thoughts on thee knowledge of Land/T'sing ninaagaadek ezhi naanaagdoowendming wih kendmauzihwin zhi weh 'kiing. Manitoulin Island Summer Historical Institute (MISHI). https://activehistory.ca/blog/2018/04/27/a-triptych-of-thoughts-on-the-knowledge-of-land/

 

Kapron, B. J. (2017). Review of the book A Canadian climate of mind: Passages from fur to energy and beyond, by T. B. Leduc. UnderCurrents: Journal of Critical Environmental Studies, 20, 52-53. https://doi.org/10.25071/2292-4736/40307

 

 

THESES

Kapron, B. J. (2024). The Survivance of Water and Rock: An Environmental History and Settler Autoethnography of Nishnaabeg Thought Worlds, Other-than-Human Personhood, and the Trent-Severn Waterway (Doctoral Dissertation). Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change Studies, York University, Toronto, ON, Canada. https://hdl.handle.net/10315/42944

 

Kapron, B. J. (2016). Cacophonous settler grounded normativity: Interrelationality with the more-than-human world as a path for decolonial transformation (Master's Major Research Paper). Outstanding Graduate Student Paper Series, 22(16). Faculty of Environmental Studies, York University, Toronto, ON, Canada. http://hdl.handle.net/10315/34817