Environment and Extraction: Liabilities, Resistance, Legislation, and Inequality - Alexander

Environment and Extraction: Liabilities, Resistance, Legislation, and Inequality 

CHAIR: ERVIN, Alexander (U Saskatchewan) 

DISCUSSANTS: MATISOFF, Adina (UCLA) The Block 113 Dialogue: The Role of Activism in Attaining Chinese Corporate Accountability to Society in Peru 

PALMER, Andie (U Alberta) Aboriginal Title and Gold at $1200 Per Ounce: A First Test Case in Canada 

MOSES, Joshua (Haverford Coll) and DOMBROWSKI, Kirk (UN-Lincoln) A Different Kind of Ecological Refugee: Migration and Emerging Inequalities in Northern Labrador 

ERVIN, Alexander (U Saskatchewan) Saskatchewan First Nations and Settler Environmental Movements in Resistance to Uranium Extraction

 

ABSTRACT:

ERVIN, Alexander (U Saskatchewan) Environment and Extraction: Liabilities, Resistance, Legislation, and Inequality. Concerns surrounding the relationship between extraction and the environment crosscut the specific resource under development.  From gold and uranium in Canada to coal and oil in Columbia and Peru, conflict arises over land and economics; legislated protections are questionable, and groups mount varying levels of resistance and response.  This session examines environmental and economic investment issues as they affect First Nations, including Tsilhqot’in, Inuit and Cree, Dene, and Metis in Canada, as well as the broad ramifications of coal mining in Cesar, Columbia and oil extraction in Peru. 

 

Session took place in Pittsburgh, PA at the 75th Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology in March 2015.