Sarah Marie Wiebe is an assistant professor in the School of Public Administration at the University of Victoria, where she teaches in the Community Development program. She is an adjunct professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Hawaiʻi, Mānoa, a co-founder of the Feminist Environmental Research Network (FERN), and the author of Everyday Exposure: Indigenous Mobilization and Environmental Justice in Canada's Chemical Valley, which won the Charles Taylor Book Award in 2017. Her writing has been published in journals including Citizenship Studies, Engaged Scholar, New Political Science, Politics and Policy, and Studies in Social Justice.

• Foreword: Nanabush and the Emergence of Butterflies / Lindsay Keegitah BorrowsPrefaceIntroduction: "You Are Treaty, Too"1 Artistic Movements for Alternative Decolonial Futures 2 Creative Engagement through Mixed Media Storytelling 3 Chief Spence's Story4 Community Voices: Reimagining Attawapiskat 5 Discursive Responses to Attawapiskat, Chief Spence, and the Hunger Strike 6 Treaties Are Alive7 Fleshing Out New Directions for Environmental JusticeAfterword: Emergency Feelings – Reflections on the Body Politics of Sudden and Slow Emergencies Appendices; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Life Against States of Emergency is … refreshingly personable … enlivened by Wiebe's dialogic approach to research and writing … Wiebe makes a deep contribution to critical policy conversations on Indigenous resurgence and futurities in Canada, Indigenous/settler relations, and Treaty-making and remaking.- Rebecca Hall (Critical Policy Studies) Wiebe – a settler scholar and writer-activist – is an immensely gifted storyteller … Life Against States of Emergency has arrived at a crucial point for the field of environmental politics, reminding us to recenter relationships as foundational to meaningful engagement with the politics of planetary justice. In doing so, we can better imagine and create alternative ways of being in the world.- Hannah Ascough, Queen's University (Environmental Politics)