Alaskan Neo-Liberalism Conservation, Development, and Native Land Rights

Ganapathy, Sandhya

doi:10.3167/sa.2011.550106

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“…Established as a result of the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act of 1971, CIRI is the Alaska Native regional corporation that includes the Seward area. Native corporations operate under powerful neoliberal logics (Ganapathy, 2011)and undertake a variety of business activities for the profit of their Native shareholders. CIRI formed a tourism division in 1997, and quickly purchased the Kenai Fjords Wilderness Lodge located on Fox Island, near Seward, as well as Kenai Fjords Tours, Seward's original day cruise tour operator.…”

Section: Results Part Ii: Investing In Nature Tourism Through Changimentioning

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The ‘entrepreneurial spirit’:Exxon Valdezand nature tourism development in Seward, Alaska

Coddington

2015

Tourism Geographies

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Use policyThe full-text may be used and/or reproduced, and given to third parties in any format or medium, without prior permission or charge, for personal research or study, educational, or not-for-prot purposes provided that:• a full bibliographic reference is made to the original source • a link is made to the metadata record in DRO • the full-text is not changed in any way The full-text must not be sold in any format or medium without the formal permission of the copyright holders.Please consult the full DRO policy for further details. AbstractAfter the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill, residents of Seward, Alaska turned in increasing numbers to nature tourism. Once a shipping, logging, and fishing town, the community is now known for a range of nature tourism businesses designed to allow access to nearby Kenai Fjords National Park and Chugach National Forest. While the Exxon Valdez oil spill devastated the coastline in many parts of Prince William Sound, oil spill cleanup activities in Seward during the summer of 1989 accelerated two developments critical for the tourism industry in Seward. The cleanup efforts allowed for the evolution and expansion of Seward residents' "entrepreneurial spirit," prompting them to turn increasingly towards nature tourism activities to bolster the community economy. Yet the growth of the "entrepreneurial spirit" in Seward also relied on a changing understanding of 'nature' and the environment, a process that was also catalyzed by the oil spill cleanup efforts. Using ethnographic methods, including semi-structured interviews with local residents and participant observation, I explore how residents perceive the shift towards nature tourism in their community economy, and the ambivalent long-term consequences of the spill for community life.

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Section: Results Part Ii: Investing In Nature Tourism Through Changimentioning

confidence: 99%

The ‘entrepreneurial spirit’:Exxon Valdezand nature tourism development in Seward, Alaska

Coddington

2015

Tourism Geographies

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“…The Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act (ANCSA; see U.S. Congress 1971) essentially privatized aboriginal land bases, conferring them to several competing for‐profit Native corporations that were charged with managing and developing the land and its resources. A detailed discussion of ANCSA is beyond the scope of this article (see Brown 2004; Case and Voluck 2002; Dombrowski 2002; Ganapathy 2011), although it did redefine which lands Native peoples legally had access 9…”

Section: Athabascan Placewaysmentioning

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Imagining Alaska: Local and Translocal Engagements with Place

Ganapathy

2013

American Anthropologist

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In this article, I examine the concepts of place and place-making across multiple scales to understand how Alaskan landscapes have been constituted and defined from afar and how these translocal spatial formations are experienced and contested locally. Alaska's inception as a spatio-legal entity was accomplished through translocal legislative acts and imaginative representations that framed it as either a place for extractive resource development or one of bountiful, pristine nature that should remain untouched. These translocal framings precipitated economic expansion and migration into the region, resulting in material and imaginative transformations of Alaskan landscapes. Alaskan landscapes are also important for Native communities, who continue to define culturally meaningful places through grounded rather than translocal engagements. I highlight the experiences of Gwich'in Athabascan communities in northeast Alaska who must contend with competing translocal framings of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in their engagements with, and efforts to sustain, aboriginal land bases. [space-place, translocality, Alaska, Gwich'in Athabascan, oil development] RESUMEN En este artículo examino los conceptos de lugar y construcción de lugar a través de escalas múltiples para entender como los paisajes de Alaska han sido constituidos y definidos desde lejos y cómo estas formaciones trans-locales son vividas y retadas localmente. La incepción de Alaska como una entidad espacial legal fue lograda través de actos legislativos trans-locales y representaciones imaginativas que la enmarcaron o bien como un lugar de desarrollo extractivo de recursos o como naturaleza prístina, abundante de recursos que debe permanecerintacta. Estas enmarcaciones trans-locales precipitaron la expansión económica y la migración a la región lo cual resultó en transformaciones imaginativas de los paisajes de Alaska. Los paisajes de Alaska también son importantes para las comunidades nativas quienes continúan definiendo lugares culturalmente significativos a través de interacciones establecidas en vez de interacciones trans-locales. Enfatizo las experiencias de las comunidades de Gwich'in Athabascan en el nordeste de Alaska que tienen que enfrentarse a marcos trans-locales competitivos sobre el Refugio Nacional de Vida Silvestre de laÁrtica en sus interacciones con, y esfuerzos para mantener las bases de la tierra aborigen. [Espacio/lugar, trans-localidad, Alaska, Gwich'in Athabascan, desarrollo petrolero]

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“…Inuvialuit politicians successfully lobbied the territorial and federal governments to contribute the majority of funding (CAD $200 million of CAD $300 million total) to build the road. The ITH thus exemplifies the rise of both Inuit corporate governance (Wilson and Alcantara 2012) and Indigenous-driven projects across the Western Arctic, from Canada to Alaska, where aboriginal corporations also advocate for development (Ganapathy 2011). Such infrastructure projects differ from Arctic megaprojects in previous eras, which were largely envisioned and spearheaded by national governments (for example the Alaska Railroad, described in the next section).…”

Section: Economic Factorsmentioning

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Arctic roads and railways: social and environmental consequences of transport infrastructure in the circumpolar North

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Land-based transport corridors and their related infrastructure increasingly extend into and across the Arctic in support of resource development and population growth, causing large-scale cumulative changes in northern socio-ecological systems. These changes result from the increased mobility of people, goods and resources, and from environmental impacts on landscapes and ecosystems as the human footprint extends into remote, unindustrialized regions. Arctic climate change is bringing new challenges for construction and maintenance of transport systems, requiring adaptive engineering solutions as well as community resilience to change. In this review article, we consider the complex entanglements between humans, the environment and land transportation infrastructure in the North, and illustrate these aspects by way of seven case studies: Baikal-Amur Mainline, Bovanenkovo Railway, Alaska-Canada Highway, Inuvik-Tuktoyatuk Highway, Alaska Railroad, Hudson Bay Railway and proposed railways on Baffin Island, Canada. As new infrastructure is anticipated and built across the circumpolar North, there is an urgent need for an integrated socio-ecological approach to impact assessment. This would include full consideration of Indigenous knowledge and concerns, collaboration with local communities and user groups in assessment, planning and monitoring, and evaluation of alternative engineering designs to contend with the impacts of climate change in the decades ahead.

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Alaskan Neo-Liberalism Conservation, Development, and Native Land Rights

Cited by 13 publications

References 8 publications

The ‘entrepreneurial spirit’:Exxon Valdezand nature tourism development in Seward, Alaska

The ‘entrepreneurial spirit’:Exxon Valdezand nature tourism development in Seward, Alaska

Imagining Alaska: Local and Translocal Engagements with Place

Arctic roads and railways: social and environmental consequences of transport infrastructure in the circumpolar North

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