Post-wildfire morel mushroom harvesting and the production of post-disaster opportunity in settler-colonial Canada

• Main Author: Stanton, C-J
• Other Authors: Ernwein, M, Vasudevan, A, McConnell, F, Grossman, Z
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: 2022
• Subjects: Human Geography; Affective Geography; Disaster Studies; Settler Colonial Studies; British Columbia; Canada; Fort McMurray; Horse River; Shovel Lake
• Online Access: https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:acecb02d-9c1c-4c26-a61f-89fd8050c49f

This thesis explores processes of opportunism and socio-political change following so-called “natural” disasters through a multi-sited case study of the post-wildfire morel mushroom (Morchella sp.) harvest in Western Canada. Morels are edible fungi which fruit en masse the first spring season follow...