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Unearthing the Discursive Politics of Mining on Indigenous Lands : = Knowledge, Health, Contestation, and Power in Contemporary Canadian Regulatory Infrastructures.

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Title/Author:	Unearthing the Discursive Politics of Mining on Indigenous Lands :/
Reminder of title:	Knowledge, Health, Contestation, and Power in Contemporary Canadian Regulatory Infrastructures.
Author:	Myette, Ella.
Description:	1 online resource (150 pages)
Notes:	Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 84-05.
Contained By:	Masters Abstracts International84-05.
Subject:	Culture. -
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ISBN:	9798352989173

Unearthing the Discursive Politics of Mining on Indigenous Lands : = Knowledge, Health, Contestation, and Power in Contemporary Canadian Regulatory Infrastructures.
Myette, Ella.

Unearthing the Discursive Politics of Mining on Indigenous Lands :Knowledge, Health, Contestation, and Power in Contemporary Canadian Regulatory Infrastructures. - 1 online resource (150 pages)

Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 84-05.

Thesis (M.A.)--McGill University (Canada), 2022.

Includes bibliographical references

Mining projects have the potential to significantly affect Indigenous Peoples and their health in myriad ways, both in the short term and across generations. During the approval stage for new extractive sites, a projects' anticipated impacts on Indigenous Peoples' health and wellbeing are evaluated using a process called environmental assessment (EA). However, EA is a technocratic process that relies on and advances a very specific and narrow understanding of health- one based in Western colonial cultural understandings and assumptions that can be inappropriate and even harmful for Indigenous communities.This thesis sought to answer two key research questions: how can extractive projects affect Indigenous Peoples' health, and how is Indigenous Peoples' health represented in environmental assessment? My methods to answer these questions included a scoping review of the literature on extraction and Indigenous Peoples' health, as well as a qualitative document analysis of the final environmental assessment reports for 28 mining projects in Canada. I then interpreted the results of these analyses using critical framing techniques borrowed from infrastructure studies to unpack the broader political implications of EA and the kind of knowledge it contains and perpetuates.In the scoping review, I identified a set of mechanisms with the capacity to be activated in an extraction context and produce health outcomes, including: engagement in assessment and consultation processes; interaction with government and industry officials; the presence and nature of new work and training opportunities; changes to the economy and an influx of new money; changing social structures and new inequalities; environmental degradation and dispossession; new and longstanding changes to the economy; and lasting effects on land. The variation in these mechanisms across space and time confirms that communities can be affected by resource projects via a wide range of pathways, which proves that a holistic perspective is necessary to adequately measure and understand effects on Indigenous Peoples' health. However, the analysis of the EA reports showed that these varied pathways to health were often not included in the assessment process. And, when indicators related to Indigenous health were included, these methods of assessment were at odds with community health ontologies due to their narrow focus and their inability to consider the complexity and essentiality of human-nonhuman relations.The primary conclusion of this thesis is that EA is largely ineffective at fully or accurately assessing effects of extractive projects on Indigenous Peoples' health. Beyond identifying a diverse set of fundamental issues with EA's measurements, I also argue that the process itself leads to a furthering of colonial logics in the public sphere, which is harmful to communities and contributes to asymmetrical power dynamics between Indigenous Peoples and the Crown.

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ProQuest,
2023

Mode of access: World Wide Web

ISBN: 9798352989173Subjects--Topical Terms:

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Unearthing the Discursive Politics of Mining on Indigenous Lands : = Knowledge, Health, Contestation, and Power in Contemporary Canadian Regulatory Infrastructures.
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520 $a Les projets d'exploitation miniere peuvent avoir des repercussions considerables sur les Peuples Autochtones et leur sante de multiples facons, a court terme et sur plusieurs generations. Au cours de la phase d'approbation des nouveaux sites d'extraction, les impacts prevus d'un projet sur la sante et le bien-etre des Peuples Autochtones sont evalues au moyen d'un processus appele evaluation environnementale (EA). Cependant, l'evaluation environnementale est un processus technocratique qui s'appuie sur une conception tres specifique et etroite de la sante, fondee sur des conceptions et des hypotheses culturelles coloniales et occidentales qui peuvent etre inappropriees, et meme nuisibles, pour les communautes autochtones.Cette these a cherche a repondre a deux questions de recherche cles: comment les projets d'extraction peuvent-ils affecter la sante des Peuples Autochtones, et comment la sante des Peuples Autochtones est-elle representee dans l'evaluation environnementale? Mes methodes pour repondre a ces questions comprenaient une revue de la litterature sur l'extraction et la sante des Peuples Autochtones, ainsi qu'une analyse qualitative des rapports finaux d'evaluation environnementale de 28 projets miniers au Canada. J'ai ensuite interprete les resultats de ces analyses a l'aide de techniques de formulation critique inspirees des etudes sur les infrastructures, afin de degager les implications politiques plus larges de l'evaluation environnementale et le type de connaissances qu'elle contient et perpetue.Dans la revue de la litterature, j'ai identifie un ensemble de mecanismes ayant la capacite d'etre actives dans un contexte d'extraction et de produire des resultats sur la sante, y compris: l'engagement dans les processus d'evaluation et de consultation; l'interaction avec les representants du gouvernement et de l'industrie; la presence et la nature de nouvelles opportunites de travail et de formation; les changements dans l'economie et l'afflux d'argent nouveau; les structures sociales changeantes et les nouvelles inegalites; la degradation et la depossession de l'environnement; les changements nouveaux et de longue duree dans l'economie; et les effets durables sur la terre. La variation de ces mecanismes dans l'espace et dans le temps confirme que les communautes peuvent etre affectees par les projets d'exploitation des ressources a travers un large eventail de voies, ce qui prouve qu'une perspective holistique est necessaire pour mesurer et comprendre adequatement les effets sur la sante des Peuples Autochtones. Cependant, l'analyse des rapports d'evaluation environnementale a montre que ces diverses approches vis-a-vis de la sante n'etaient souvent pas prises en compte dans le processus d'evaluation. De plus, lorsque des indicateurs concernant la sante des Peuples Autochtones etaient inclus, ces methodes d'evaluation etaient en contradiction avec les ontologies de la sante communautaire en raison de leur orientation restrictive et de leur incapacite a prendre en compte la complexite et le caractere essentiel des relations entre les humains et les non-humains.La principale conclusion de cette these est que l'evaluation environnementale est largement inefficace pour evaluer completement ou fidelement les effets des projets d'extraction sur la sante des Peuples Autochtones. Au-dela de l'identification d'un ensemble de problemes fondamentaux en lien avec les mesures de l'evaluation environnementale, je soutiens aussi que le processus lui-meme conduit a un renforcement des logiques coloniales dans la sphere publique, ce qui est nuisible pour les communautes et contribue a une dynamique de pouvoir asymetrique entre les Peuples Autochtones et la Couronne.
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