Under Pressure
Diamond Mining and Everyday Life in Northern Canada
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2023
University of Toronto Press (Verlag)
978-1-4875-4827-8 (ISBN)
University of Toronto Press (Verlag)
978-1-4875-4827-8 (ISBN)
Told from the vantage point of the "Hub of the North," this student-friendly ethnography examines the boom and bust of Canada’s diamond industry.
In 2007, Canada became the third largest producer of diamonds in the world. Primarily mined on the edge of the Arctic, these diamonds are said to bring economic development and opportunity to nearby Indigenous communities. In Under Pressure, anthropologist Lindsay A. Bell examines the effects of diamond mining on an increasingly diverse northern population.
Through an ethnographic focus on everyday life in Hay River, a multi-ethnic town in the Northwest Territories, this book illustrates the different ways Indigenous, settler, and immigrant northerners navigate the opportunities and obstacles created by large-scale resource development. By situating contemporary diamond mines within the long history of extraction in the region, Bell describes the social, cultural, and economic pressures that shape the people in this Northern community. In contrast to many polarizing accounts that deem mining as either good or bad, Under Pressure uses diamonds as an anthropological prism to consider larger issues related to Arctic extraction, globalization, Indigenous rights, and ethical consumption.
In 2007, Canada became the third largest producer of diamonds in the world. Primarily mined on the edge of the Arctic, these diamonds are said to bring economic development and opportunity to nearby Indigenous communities. In Under Pressure, anthropologist Lindsay A. Bell examines the effects of diamond mining on an increasingly diverse northern population.
Through an ethnographic focus on everyday life in Hay River, a multi-ethnic town in the Northwest Territories, this book illustrates the different ways Indigenous, settler, and immigrant northerners navigate the opportunities and obstacles created by large-scale resource development. By situating contemporary diamond mines within the long history of extraction in the region, Bell describes the social, cultural, and economic pressures that shape the people in this Northern community. In contrast to many polarizing accounts that deem mining as either good or bad, Under Pressure uses diamonds as an anthropological prism to consider larger issues related to Arctic extraction, globalization, Indigenous rights, and ethical consumption.
Lindsay A. Bell is an assistant professor of anthropology at Western University.
1. Introduction
2. Nation
3. Race
4. Infrastructure
5. Mobility
6. Morality
7. Aspiration
8. Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 22.12.2022 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Teaching Culture: UTP Ethnographies for the Classroom |
| Zusatzinfo | 4 b&w illustrations, 2 b&w maps |
| Verlagsort | Toronto |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 155 x 231 mm |
| Gewicht | 380 g |
| Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-4875-4827-3 / 1487548273 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-4875-4827-8 / 9781487548278 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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