Where the Rivers Meet

Pipelines, Participatory Resource Management, and Aboriginal-State Relations in the Northwest Territories

Häftad, Engelska, 2016

Av Carly A. Dokis

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Oil and gas companies now recognize that industrial projects in the Canadian North can only succeed if Aboriginal communities are involved in decision-making processes. Are Aboriginal concerns appropriately addressed through current consultation and participatory processes?Where the Rivers Meet is an ethnographic account of Sahtu Dene involvement in the environmental assessment of the Mackenzie Gas Project, a massive pipeline that, if completed, would have unprecedented effects on Aboriginal communities in the North.Carly A. Dokis reveals that while there has been some progress in establishing avenues for Dene participation in decision making, the structure of participatory and consultation processes fails to meet the expectations of local people by requiring them to participate in ways that are incommensurable with their experiential knowledge and understandings of the environment. Ultimately, Dokis finds that the evaluation of such projects remains rooted in non-local beliefs about the nature of the environment, the commodification of land, and the inevitability of a hydrocarbon-based economy.

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Utgivningsdatum2016-02-15
Mått152 x 229 x undefined mm
Vikt360 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieNature | History | Society
Antal sidor240
FörlagUniversity of British Columbia Press
ISBN9780774828468

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Carly A. Dokis is an assistant professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Nipissing University. Her research interests include political ecology, anthropology of development, collaborative research methodologies, and the ethnology of northern Canada. She has worked with communities in northern Ontario and the Northwest Territories with a broad focus on the social, economic, and political consequences of participatory environmental management.

Foreword: The Paradoxical Politics of Participatory Praxis / Graeme WynnPrefaceIntroduction: People, Land, and Pipelines1 "Very Nice Talk in a Very Beautiful Way": The Community Hearing Process2 "A Billion Dollars Cannot Create a Moose": Perceptions of Industrial Impacts3 Life under the Comprehensive Claim Agreement4 Consultation and Other Legitimating PracticesConclusion: The Politics of ParticipationNotesReferencesIndex

This book represents a significant contribution to our understanding of barriers to procedural justice in Aboriginal communities, and it offers important lessons for regulators, policy makers, and rights advocates well beyond the Northwest Territories. Senior undergraduate or graduate students interested in anthropology, indigenous studies, or political ecology will find the work accessible and very relevant to the contemporary history of development on aboriginal lands. - Cyrus M. Hester, Arizona State University (NICHE)