Cherry, Keith

Dr. Keith Cherry is a postdoctoral fellow at McGill University’s faculty of law and a sessional lecturer at the University of Victoria, Canada. His research focuses on comparative pluralism, settler-Indigenous relations, the European Union, agonistic politics, social movement politics, and pluralism in social movement praxis. Much of his scholarship compares the relationship between Canadian and Indigenous governance structures with the relationship between the European Union and its member-states. Beyond academia, Dr. Cherry is an active community organizer, working with grassroots environmental organizations and contributing to campaigns on democratic participation, civic engagement, and non-violent collective action. Within the Mnemonic Democracy project, he contributes expertise on Indigenous-settler relations, social movements in colonial contexts, and civic engagement.

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Institution: McGill University, University of Victoria
Fields of Expertise:

Canadian Politics

EU Institutions

EU Policies

EU-Canada Relations

Law and Legal Issues

Research groups: Democracy/Populism/Nationalism,Mnemonic Democracy
Email: kcherry@uvic.ca
Media outreach: Yes
Languages: English
Publications:

“Constitutional Pluralism: Rethinking the Relationship between Indigenous Self-Government and the Charter” Review of Constitutional Studies. (forthcoming)“JurisdictionBack: The Contested Who and How of Jurisdiction in the ‘Shut Down Canada’ Actions”, New Political Science.

Amy Swiffen, Keith Cherry, Alec Duncan, Sarah Sutherland, Kris Millett and Hannah Wyile (submitted A) "Selective Memory: The Limits of Case Law as Legal History" McGill Law Journal.

(2026). “Sovereignty, Difference & Constitutional Pluralism: The European Union and Canada in Dialog” Global Constitutionalism.

(2024). “The Kids don’t want Reconciliation, they Want Landback: Thinking about Decolonization and Settler Solidarity after the Death of Reconciliation”, Contemporary Political Theory 24 (1).

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