Indigenous/state relations and the “Making” of surplus populations in the mixed economy of Northern Canada

Hall, Rebecca

doi:10.1016/j.geoforum.2020.01.013

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“…However, the larger imperative for Indigenous hires driving both federal and provincial/territorial governments, as well as industry, is that state and industry have responded to demands for better relationships with Indigenous communities through offers of employment quotas, training programmes, and targeted hires; in this way, constructing an "extractive-friendly" approach to community relations (McCreary et al 2016). To put it another way, extractive companies not only find local workers with place-based expertise in Indigenous communities, but they also rely upon Indigenous workers as markers of so-called "responsible development" (Hall 2021). In turn, Indigenous communities mobilise new governance structures to meet their own labour and community development needs (McCreary et al 2016).…”

Section: The Canadian State and Indigenous Extractive Labourmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Internationally, Canada often pairs its extractive ventures with aid projects aimed at training local workers (Butler 2015). Domestically, the Canadian state has responded to critics of resource extraction on Indigenous land and its impacts upon Indigenous communities by amplifying its efforts to train and hire Indigenous workers at extractive sites (Bell 2017;Hall 2021;Hodgkins 2018;McCreary 2013). As Natural Resources Canada (2013, the Canadian federal department responsible for extraction, writes in a mining exploration guide for companies and communities:…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Colonial Continuities in Closure: Indigenous Mine Labour and the Canadian state

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Pryce

2023

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The benefits of employment in resource extraction figure prominently in state rationales for resource extraction. However, in Canada, the site of study, while the worker is a key figure in rationales for extraction, this same worker disappears in state attention to extractive/mine closure. The paper's focus on Indigenous mining labour is driven by a community–university research partnership with Dene communities in the Northwest Territories facing forthcoming closure of diamond mines on their land. Approaching mine closure as a juncture that can both reproduce or resist the settler extractive economy, we argue that the Canadian state responses to the labour implications of mine closure, and its lack of coherence, express the settler‐colonial tension between the reproduction of the (Canadian) settler state and its requisite labour force, and the social reproduction of Indigenous communities.

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Section: The Canadian State and Indigenous Extractive Labourmentioning

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Colonial Continuities in Closure: Indigenous Mine Labour and the Canadian state

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Pryce

2023

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“…Inshore commercial fisheries can therefore help bolster the subsistence economy (Rodon, 2015;Baird, 2019;Galappaththi et al, 2019). Insofar as thriving subsistence economies are associated with Indigenous cultural continuity, food security, and economic resilience (Kulchyski, 2006;Abele, 2009;Kuokkanen, 2011, Hall, 2021, the social benefits drawn from this multiplier are substantial.…”

Section: Inshore Fisheries and Community Economic Developmentmentioning

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Commercial fishing, Inuit rights, and internal colonialism in Nunavut

Bernauer

2022

Polar Record

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This paper considers the degree to which the concept of ‘internal colonialism’ accurately describes the political economy of Nunavut’s commercial fisheries. Offshore fisheries adjacent to Nunavut were initially dominated by institutions based in southern Canada, and most economic benefits were captured by southern jurisdictions. Decades of political struggle have resulted in Nunavut establishing a role for itself in both the management of offshore resources and the operation of the offshore fishing industry. However, key decisions about fishery management are made by the federal government, and many benefits from Nunavut’s offshore fisheries continue to accrue to southern jurisdictions. The concept of internal colonialism is therefore a useful concept for understanding the historical development and contemporary conflicts over offshore fisheries. By contrast, Nunavut’s inshore fisheries were established as community development initiatives intended to promote economic well-being and stability. While inshore fisheries primarily benefit Inuit community economies, the growth of inshore fisheries has been hampered by small profit margins, inadequate marine infrastructure, and a dearth of baseline data. The federal government’s failure to support the expansion of inshore fisheries is a manifestation of internal colonialism, insofar as it reflects an unequal distribution of public infrastructure and research.

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“…And there is impact of Gross Domestic Product (GDP), population growth and the generation of renewable energies on CO2 emissions in the 50 largest world economies over the years 1990-2015 (Anny et al, 2020). [11] Rebecca Hall (2020) reported that "A move from the welfare-state era, wherein the state structured northern Indigenous "dependency", to the neoliberal era, wherein dependency became a problem to be solved through increased indigenous incorporation into capitalist wage labour. The northern diamond mining industry, responding to both indigenous demands for land recognition and neoliberal imperatives for lean operations, exemplifies this latter approach".…”

Section: International Journal Of Scientific Advances Issn: 2708-7972mentioning

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Study on Structure of Population Divided by Gender and Geography: HCM, Vietnam Case

Hanh¹

2021

International Journal of Scientific Advances

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Population is one crucial factor to develop an economy, but how to divide the population by gender and geography efficiently requires excellent strategy. The objective of this paper is to assess the impact of population structure divided by gender and geography in terms of Vietnam as a country based on logistics transport development in Ho Chi Minh (HCM), Vietnam by using multivariate regression with time series data between 2010 and 2019. The major findings are resident population in rural and urban settlements were impacted, but female and male populations were not impacted based on productivity calculated from the labour of Logistics Transport Industry (LTI). Rural and in urban resident populations were not impacted but female and male populations were impacted by passengers’ productivity based on calculations obtained from LTI. While female and male populations were affected, all rural and urban resident population were not affected by Gross domestic products.

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Indigenous/state relations and the “Making” of surplus populations in the mixed economy of Northern Canada

Cited by 11 publications

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Colonial Continuities in Closure: Indigenous Mine Labour and the Canadian state

Colonial Continuities in Closure: Indigenous Mine Labour and the Canadian state

Commercial fishing, Inuit rights, and internal colonialism in Nunavut

Study on Structure of Population Divided by Gender and Geography: HCM, Vietnam Case

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