Tiny Houses, Treesits, and Housing on the Front Lines of the TMX Pipeline Resistance

Abstract:Housing is a strategic component of land defence on the front lines of resistance to extractive development across Turtle Island. This article highlights two resistance efforts along the proposed Trans Mountain Pipeline (TMX) route to provide dynamic examples of housing “as a temporal, embodied, affective, and theatrical practice”: the Tiny House Warriors’ tiny houses and the Protect the Planet Stop TMX treesit. The construction and occupation of tiny houses and treehouses in the pathway of extractive development projects are “sustainable tools”—creative strategies and adaptable tactics that may be adapted and repeated on other front lines of resistance.