Under Pressure: Diamond Mining and Everyday Life in Northern Canada - Couverture rigide

Bell, Lindsay A.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1487548273 ISBN 13 : 9781487548278

Editeur : University of Toronto Press, 2023

Synopsis

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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Lindsay A. Bell is an assistant professor of anthropology at Western University.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Toronto Press
• Date d'édition: 2023
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1487548273
• ISBN 13: 9781487548278
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 188
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