Dean Bavington

Dean Bavington is a geographer and writer based in St. John’s, originally from St. Anthony on the Great Northern Peninsula. He is the author of Managed Annihilation: An Unnatural History of the Newfoundland Cod Collapse (UBC Press, 2011) and co-editor of Subsistence under Capitalism: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2016). His research and teaching explore the entangled impacts of modernity, capitalism, and colonialism on ecological governance, subsistence lifeways, and the politics of place in Newfoundland and Labrador. Since 2012, he has been an Associate Professor in the Department of Geography at Memorial University, where his recent focus has been on “learning to unsettle” geographies of power through pedagogy, relational accountability, and critical place-based inquiry.