Nadia Chana

A settler of South Asian descent, Nadia Chana was born and raised in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, on Treaty 6 territory. Nadia also sang in choirs and everywhere else. These contexts directly shape her work, however invisibly.

In general, Nadia is interested in listening, voice, practice-based ways of knowing, ecological crisis, human-nonhuman relations, and settler colonialism. Music studies, critical Indigenous studies, and feminist science studies all help her explore these topics in her research and teaching.

Over the past ten years, Nadia has been shaping the ideas in her book-in-progress, Unsettling Publics: Listening Beyond Sound on Indigenous Lands. A book about relational listening, settler publics, and ethnographic practice, it is supported by multi-sited fieldwork in Alberta and California with Indigenous leaders and settlers, both white and of color.