Extracting Home in the Oil Sands Settler Colonialism and Environmental Change in Subarctic Canada

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Synopsis

The Canadian oil sands are one of the world’s most important energy sources and the subject of global attention in relation to climate change and pollution. This volume engages ethnographically with key issues concerning the oil sands by working from anthropological literature and beyond to explore how people struggle to make and hold on to diverse senses of home in the region. The contributors draw on diverse fieldwork experiences with communities in Alberta that are affected by the oil sands industry. Through a series of case studies, they illuminate the complexities inherent in the entanglements of race, class, Indigeneity, gender, and ontological concerns in a regional context characterized by extreme extraction. The chapters are unified in a common concern for ethnographically theorizing settler colonialism, sentient landscapes, and multispecies relations within a critical political ecology framework and by the prominent role that extractive industries play in shaping new relations between Indigenous Peoples, the state, newcomers, corporations, plants, animals, and the land.

Book details

Series:
Arctic Worlds
Author:
Clinton N. Westman, Tara L. Joly, Lena Gross
ISBN:
9781351127448
Related ISBNs:
9781351127462, 9780815356653, 9780815356653
Publisher:
Taylor and Francis
Pages:
N/A
Reading age:
Not specified
Includes images:
Yes
Date of addition:
2020-02-10
Usage restrictions:
Copyright
Copyright date:
2020
Copyright by:
Clinton N. Westman, Tara L. Joly, Lena Gross 
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
Categories:
Nonfiction, Social Studies