Arn Keeling

TL;DR: This article reviewed the literature on large-scale mining projects' relationships to Indigenous peoples in post/colonial contexts, focusing on Australia, Canada, Finland, Greenland, New Caledonia, Norway, and Sweden, in the aim of generating insights from comparative perspectives.

TL;DR: The authors argue that northern mining conflicts might best be understood through a productive alliance of North American environmental justice with insights from political ecology, a sub-discipline that has traditionally focused on environmental injustices in Third World settings.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors focus on the high profile case of the Canadian government's attempt to remediate arsenic contamination at the former Giant Mine in the Northwest Territories and argue that proponents of the remediation project failed to acknowledge that Indigenous TK is not simply a storehouse of scientific data on plants and animals, but is woven together with historical memories of rapid social, economic and environmental changes associated with northern development projects.

TL;DR: The authors examines the history of arsenic pollution at the former giant mine as a form of slow violence, a concept that reconfigures the arsenic issue not simply as a technical problem, but as a historical agent of colonial dispossession that alienated an Indigenous group from their traditional territory.

TL;DR: In this paper, the landscape and environmental changes engendered by cyclonic patterns of development associated with uranium production at Uranium City, Saskatchewan are explored. But despite optimistic assessments for the region’s industrial future, the new settlement remained inherently unstable, tied to shifting institutional arrangements and external markets, and haunted by the spectre of resource depletion.