The politics of refusal: Aboriginal sovereignty and the Northern Gateway pipeline

Wood, Peter H.; Rossiter, David A.

doi:10.1111/cag.12325

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“…As has been widely noted, EIAs encode hegemonic epistemologies rooted in Western science and expertise (Barandiara´n, 2020;Hoogeveen, 2016;McCreary and Milligan, 2014), and are depoliticized by emphasizing "technical" matters (Barandiara´n, 2016). In many of these cases, a central critique of the EIA process and broader regulatory processes is that they are epistemologically and ideologically restrictive: either they do not allow for other knowledges, conceptions, or forms of governance of the socionatural world, or they selectively and perfunctorily incorporate these alternative systems in highly reductionist ways (Hoogeveen, 2016;McCreary and Milligan, 2014;Wood and Rossiter, 2017).…”

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“…Deconstruction hinges on an interiority of oppositional Others, as "shadows" of the unsaid that exist within the text itself, whereas constructivists assert the exteriority of knowledges, ontologies, and processes that are never fully captured within ever more expansive discursive frames. Similarly, environmental assessments occur at the interface of different knowledge practices-some of which remain outside of and beyond the text (Hoogeveen, 2016;Wood and Rossiter, 2017). However, while overflow has been engaged in constructivist scholarship on the economy and scientific risk assessment, these conceptions of overflow do not fully capture the importance of the materiality of documents and their textual and semiotic excess, as is the focus of deconstructive scholarship in literary and art theory.…”

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Overflow: The oppositional life of an environmental impact study in a Senegalese mining negotiation

Fent

2020

Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space

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Since the 1980s, environmental impact assessment has been adopted by numerous countries in the Global North and Global South to evaluate the effects of industrial and mining development. However, as scholars of mining capitalism have suggested, this has become a technology of environmental government that often serves to bolster and legitimize extractive projects rather than improving environmental outcomes or opening space for public participation. Focusing on oppositional uses of an environmental impact study in a mining controversy in Casamance, Senegal, this article examines the work that environmental assessment does, and argues that it can be used as a tool of resistance, extended delay, and debate. Activists and local residents opposed to the proposed mining project highlighted “overflows”—ways in which the document and its strategies exceeded the intention of legitimizing the mine within Senegalese legal frameworks. As both a representational and material object, the study was used by activists to highlight conflicts of interest inherent in the evaluation process, to emphasize errors and flaws in the text, and to fuel alternative predictions about the mine’s effects. This article suggests greater attention to the oppositional lives of bureaucratic processes, and the ways in which community groups draw upon governmentalized technologies to undermine extractive development.

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Overflow: The oppositional life of an environmental impact study in a Senegalese mining negotiation

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2020

Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space

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“…For example, as an undergraduate Mapping (as) Resistance: Decolonizing↔Indigenizing Journalistic Cartography student at the University of British Columbia (UBC), Andrew Barton created an interactive, participatory GeoLive map that allowed people to upload text, images, and video narratives along the proposed route of the Northern Gateway Pipeline to support resistance efforts (Marck 2014). Due, in part, to such efforts by Indigenous and allied activists, Northern Gateway failed to gain unequivocal Indigenous community support (Wood and Rossiter 2017), widespread social license, or federal governmental approval without significant conditions (Bowles and MacPhail 2017). In the end, it was effectively canceled by a federal government ban on oil tanker traffic along the Pacific coastline adjacent to its proposed terminus at Kitimat, British Columbia (Tasker 2018).…”

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Mapping (as) Resistance: Decolonizing↔Indigenizing Journalistic Cartography

Lowan-Trudeau¹

2021

Media+Environment

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This article considers journalistic cartography in relation to socioecological disasters in Indigenous territories and associated resistance movements. The authority of Western-style maps as presented in news media and elsewhere is often taken for granted—colonial cartography exerts powerful, typically unquestioned, influence upon peoples’ understandings of cultural geographies and associated land-based relationships. Such dynamics are particularly germane to consideration of Indigenous environmental and territorial concerns and associated resistance actions across Turtle Island / North America and elsewhere around the world. I present Indigenous mapping traditions and contemporary cartographic interventions as inspiring counterexamples for shifting public narratives and understanding of Indigenous territories, environmental knowledge, and related issues within news media and beyond.

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“…For a more detailed account, seeBowles and Veltmeyer (2016: 261-263) who identify eight major arguments against the project contributing to the formation of the unlikely alliance. On Indigenous opposition to Enbridge, see for example,Wood and Rossiter (2017).…”

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Fractured alliance: state-corporate actions and fossil fuel resistance in Northwest British Columbia, Canada

MacPhail

Bowles

2021

Journal of Political Ecology

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The northwest region of British Columbia, Canada has been at the center of multiple fossil fuel projects over the past decade as corporations have sought access to the coastline in order to export their products. Analyzing the dynamics of how and why groups and communities responded to two specific fossil fuel projects, we address the question: why did the "unlikely alliance" formed at the local level in northwest B.C. to resist the Enbridge oil pipeline project fracture just a few years later in the case of the LNG Canada/Coastal GasLink Liquefied Natural Gas project and pipeline project? We argue that the fracturing arose in part because of historic vulnerabilities of the resource periphery, and the legacy of settler colonial governance but also because state and corporate actors used their powers to increase the financial incentives for communities to support LNG projects, to change the discourse on fossil fuels by promoting the concept of LNG as "clean"energy, deflecting attention from the fracking of natural gas, and to isolate environmental organizations by casting them as "outsiders." The findings contribute to the literature by analyzing the reasons not only for the formation but also for the fragility and fracturing of alliances in contemporary energy politics.

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The politics of refusal: Aboriginal sovereignty and the Northern Gateway pipeline

Cited by 11 publications

References 17 publications

Overflow: The oppositional life of an environmental impact study in a Senegalese mining negotiation

Overflow: The oppositional life of an environmental impact study in a Senegalese mining negotiation

Mapping (as) Resistance: Decolonizing↔Indigenizing Journalistic Cartography

Fractured alliance: state-corporate actions and fossil fuel resistance in Northwest British Columbia, Canada

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