Title & Author:

Extraction empire : undermining the systems, states, & scales of Canada's global resource empire / edited by Pierre Bélanger.

Publication:

Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2018]

Description:

800 pages ; 25 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Paper worlds / Alex Golub -- At the financial heart of the world mining industry / Alain Deneault -- Caribbean Canadian insurance complex / Kari Levitt & Aaron Barcant -- Colonial Extractions / Paula Butler -- Sesnsing like a state / David Hargreaves -- Into thin air / Anonymous -- A fucking hole in the ground / Réal V. Benoit -- The new Africa / David Chancellor -- State of insecurity / James Hopkinson -- Un-natural resources / Moura Quayle -- At one part per billion / Douglas Morrison -- Thoughts from underground / Margaret Atwood -- Who is Maurice Strong? / Maurice Strong -- Inside the economy of appearances / Anna Lowerhaupt Tsing -- Empire lite / Michael Ignatieff -- Geology's extractive impulse / Suzanne Zeller -- The Battle of Seven Oaks / Pierre Falcon -- You and what army? / Naomi Klien -- Counter-development / John Van Nostrand -- Midword: confronting empire / X-Team -- Undermining empire / X-Team / The city planners / Margaret Atwood -- Decolonization o planning / Pierre Bélanger, Christopher Alton & Nina-Marie Lister -- A glacial place / Tiffany Kaewen Dang -- Promises, promises / Thomas R. Berger -- Treaty / Thomas King -- Treaty as territory / Allan Adam & Eriel Tchekwie Deranger -- The 7th generation / Eriel Tchekwie Deranger & Kelsey Chapman -- A short history of the Hudson's Bay Company / Thomas King -- Settler Colonialism and the Elimination of the Native / Patrick Wolfe -- The Queen's English / Erica Violet Lee -- undercurrent: declaration of intent / Rite Wong -- Prison of grass / Howard Adams -- Victoria's secret / Mary Eberts -- "An awkward silence" / Maryanne Pearce -- How to entrench Native rights / Thomas King -- Making Canadian Indian policy / Sally M. Weaver -- Canada's apartheid / Pierre Bélanger with Kate Yoon -- White space / Jean Chrétien -- We the Dene / Georges Erasmus -- Together today for our children tomorrow / Lianne Marie Leda Charlie -- Superheroes / A Tribe Called Red & Yassin Alsalman -- A decolonial manual / Zig Zag -- The Dene Mapping Project / Pheobe Nahanni -- Afterword: when colonization roads end / Ryan McMahon, Charmaine Nelson & Eli Nelson.

Summary:

Extraction is the process and practice that defines Canada, at home and abroad. Of the nearly 20,000 mining projects in the world from Africa to Latin America, more than half are Canadian operated. Not only does the mining economy employ close to 400,000 people in Canada, it contributed $57 billion CAD to Canada's GDP in 2014 alone. Globally, more than 75 percent of the world's mining firms are based in Canada. The scale of these statistics naturally extends the logic of Canada's historical legacy as state, nation, and now as global resource empire. Canada, once a far-flung northern outpost of the British Empire, has become an empire in its own right. This book examines both the historic and contemporary Canadian culture of extraction, with essays, interviews, archival material, and multimedia visualizations. The essayists and interviewees - who include such prominent figures as Naomi Klein and Michael Ignatieff - come from a range of fields, including geography, art, literature, architecture, science, environment, and business. All consider how Canadian life came to be mediated through mineral extraction. When did this empire emerge? How far does it reach? Who gains, who loses? What alternatives exist? On the 150th anniversary of the creation of Canada by Queen Victoria's Declaration of Confederation, it is time for Canada to reexamine and reimagine its imperial role throughout the world, from coast to coast, from one continent to another.

ISBN:

9780262533829 (paperback ; alkaline paper)
0262533820 (paperback ; alkaline paper)

Subject:

Mineral industries Political aspects Canada.
Mines and mineral resources Environmental aspects Canada.
Mines and mineral resources Political aspects Canada.
Imperialism.
Mines Industrie Aspect politique Canada.
Impérialisme.
Mineral industries Political aspects.
Mines and mineral resources Environmental aspects.
Mines and mineral resources Political aspects.
Bergbau
Natürliche Ressourcen
Imperialismus
Canada.
Kanada

Added entries:

Bélanger, Pierre, 1971- editor.

Extraction empire, 2017-1217

Holdings:

Location: Library main 316032
Call No.: 316032
Copy: 1
Status: Available