Sustainable Colonization: Tar Sands as Resource Colonialism

Parson, Sean; Ray, Emily

doi:10.1080/10455752.2016.1268187

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“…Alongside ongoing colonial practices being employed by former European colonisers, such as France's nuclear colonialism in the Pacific through nuclear testing in French Polynesia [29], for example, the language of colonialism also surfaces in debates about China's role in energy extraction in Africa amid contested references to the 'new colonialism' [30]. Other scholars invoke the term 'resource colonialism' to describe extraction of resources such as oil from the tar sands in Canada [31] as well as 'climate colonialism' to account for the privileging of strategies of green grabbing to secure land, forests and other resources in the global South as sinks over the more challenging task of reducing emissions in the global North [32]. Fuller engagement with these bodies of work can help to embellish and enrich accounts of the histories of energy transitions [33,34,35] and their legacies that contemporary projects of energy transition inherit.…”

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Race and the politics of energy transitions

Newell

2021

Energy Research & Social Science

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Race and the politics of energy transitions

Newell

2021

Energy Research & Social Science

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“…McCreary and Milligan 2018; Radcliffe 2019). Researchers have documented how the reproduction of settler colonial authority operates as a condition of possibility for capitalist extraction and accumulation (Coulthard 2014; Nichols 2015; Pasternak and Dafnos 2017; Stanley 2016) and more recently, how neoliberal capitalism functions to expand settler colonial authority through market relations (Cameron and Levitan 2014; Parson and Ray 2016; Pasternak 2015; Rossiter and Wood 2016; Stanley 2019). Yet, the co‐articulation of settler colonial and capitalist spaces is not always symbiotic.…”

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Reconciliation 2.0: Resolving Contradictions in the Production of Settler Colonial and Capitalist Space in Canada

Lier

2021

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This paper reviews a pair of Canadian legal decisions on the duty to consult to explore the court’s role in reconciling tensions between settler colonial and capitalist space. Following a period of political and economic instability that made energy development vulnerable to Indigenous legal challenge, the court legalised the delegation of Indigenous consultations to corporate and regulatory actors, defined consultation in practical terms, and intensified the remedy for inadequate consultation. The court not only substituted nation‐to‐nation negotiations with corporate engagements, but submitted energy corporations to the work of legitimising and effectuating Canadian sovereignty. The decisions call for an expanded view of “reconciliation” as a judicial practice of Indigenous dispossession, accomplished not only by reconciling Indigenous authority with Canadian sovereignty, but by reconciling capitalist energy development with the legalities of Canada’s modern settler colonial order. The decisions bring into greater focus the state’s increasing reliance on corporations to reproduce Canadian sovereignty.

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“…Indigenous groups are the quintessential targets of resource colonialism and the theft of land and resources (Parson and Ray 2018), but their history and agency did not end with the loss of their land and the decimation of members of their society. On the contrary, they continue to claim an indigenous identity in daily life activities and maintain attachments to places under difficult circumstances.…”

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Political agency of indigenous peoples: the Guarani-Kaiowa’s fight for survival and recognition

Ioris

2019

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The article examines the survival strategies and political reactions of indigenous groups in areas of agricultural frontiers that are strongly influenced by cultural symbols, family bonds and land-based responses. It is discussed the unique socio-spatial trajectory of indigenous peoples and, in addition, a typology of the indigenous space is proposed. The analysis is focused on the emblematic example of how frontier making was experienced by the Guarani-Kaiowa of South America. The wisdom and resistance of Guarani-Kaiowa groups derive from the simultaneous ethnicisation of space and spatialisation of culture. They have shown latent geographical agency shaped by religious practices, strong family ties and the ability to internally negotiate the return to their original areas. There are many lessons to be learned, in particular the talent to absorb the increasing and dissimulated brutality of frontier making and, at the same time, voice their political demands, form solid strategic alliances and coordinate land-recovery initiatives.

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Sustainable Colonization: Tar Sands as Resource Colonialism

Cited by 25 publications

References 11 publications

Race and the politics of energy transitions

Race and the politics of energy transitions

Reconciliation 2.0: Resolving Contradictions in the Production of Settler Colonial and Capitalist Space in Canada

Political agency of indigenous peoples: the Guarani-Kaiowa’s fight for survival and recognition

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