Bridging environmental and Indigenous studies and drawing on critical geography, spatial theory, new materialist theory, and decolonizing theory, this volume examines the sometimes overlooked significance of place in social science research. The book explores how researchers come to terms - theoretically and practically - with place in the context of settler colonialism, globalization, and environmental degradation. It outlines a trajectory of critical place inquiry that furthers empirical knowledge, and ethically imagines new possibilities for collaboration and action. Critical place inquiry mobilizes research methods which address place explicitly and politically.

1. Introduction to Place in Research PART I 2. Conceptualizing Place 3. Decolonizing Perspectives on Place PART II 4. Methodologies of Critical Place Inquiry 5. Methods of Critical Place Inquiry 6. Indigenous Methods of Critical Place Inquiry 7. Ethical Imperatives of Critical Place Inquiry

Eve Tuck is Associate Professor of Critical Race and Indigenous Studies in the Department of Social Justice Education at Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE), University of Toronto.

Marcia McKenzie is an Associate Professor in the Department of Educational Foundations and Director of the Sustainability Education Research Institute at the University of Saskatchewan.