Now Available: Thierry Rodon, Sophie Thériault, Arn Keeling, Séverine Bouard, and Andrew Taylor (eds) Mining and Indigenous Livelihoods: Rights Revenues, and Resistance

 

 I am delighted to pass along news of the publication of a most interesting set of essays: Thierry Rodon, Sophie Thériault, Arn Keeling, Séverine Bouard, and Andrew Taylor (eds) Mining and Indigenous Livelihoods: Rights Revenues, and Resistance (Routledge, 2024). Rosa Galvez, Canadian Senator representing Québec (Bedford) tells us "“This groundbreaking book is an indispensable resource for anyone concerned about the impacts of mineral extraction on Indigenous Peoples and local communities worldwide." The editors tell us

This book maps the encounters between Indigenous Peoples and local communities with mining companies in various postcolonial contexts. Combining comparative and multidisciplinary analysis, the contributors to this volume shine a light on how the mining industry might adapt its practices to the political and legal contexts where they operate. Understanding these processes and how communities respond to these encounters is critical to documenting where and how encounters with mining may benefit or negatively impact Indigenous Peoples. The experiences and reflections shared by Indigenous and non-Indigenous contributors will enhance our understanding of evolving practices and of the different strategies and discourses developed by Indigenous Peoples to deal with mining projects. By mobilizing in-depth fieldwork in five regions—Australia, Canada, Sweden, New Caledonia, and Brazil—this body of work highlights voices often marginalized in mining development studies, including those of Indigenous Peoples and women. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of mining and the extractive industries, sustainable development, natural resource management, and Indigenous Peoples.

This is important work, and for those researching or working in the field there is much of value. The book may be accessed HERE. The work is available open access.  The table of contents follows below.

Introduction

Part 1: Indigenous Peoples, Law, and Politics

1. The space left for Indigenous peoples’ voices in Canadian and Fennoscandian mining legal frameworks: A comparative analysis

Zoé Boirin-Fargues and Sophie Thériault

2.  Closure and connection: A Southwest Pacific reappraisal of the mining enclave

Pierre-Yves Le Meur and Glenn Banks

3. Foreign investor accountability for the violation of Indigenous peoples’ rights in international investment law and arbitrations: Reflections from the Bear Creek case

Zoé Boirin-Fargues

4. Power relationships, institutions, and mining: Comparing Indigenous Peoples’ participation in Canada and Brazil

Sabrina Bourgeois and Ana Catarina Zema

Part 2: Braiding Indigenous Views in the Mining Cycle

5. Indigenous Peoples’ relationships to large-scale mining in post/colonial contexts: Toward multidisciplinary comparative perspectives

Leah S. Horowitz, Arn Keeling, Francis Lévesque, Thierry Rodon, Stephan Schott, and Sophie Thériault

6. Environmental assessment as a knowledge infrastructure: Unpacking politics and power in impact evaluations for Indigenous communities

Ella Myette

7. Realizing Indigenous rights: Effective implementation of agreements between Indigenous Peoples and the extractive industry

Ciaran O’Faircheallaigh and Thierry Rodon

8. Comparative perspectives on the social aspects of mine closure and mine site transition in Canada and Australia

Sarah Holcombe, Sandy Worden, and Arn Keeling

Part 3: Navigating Relationships with Indigenous Communities

9. Understanding the silent dimensions of social acceptability of a lithium project in the Cree community of Nemaska

Julie Fortin

10. Lateral violence: Effects of external pressures on Indigenous communities

Kristina Sehlin MacNeil

Part 4: Indigenous Women and Resource Development

11. Employment trends for Indigenous women working in the Northern Territory’s large-scale mining industry: Real employment opportunities or empty corporate promises?

Jodi Cowdery and Andrew Taylor

12. Rhetoric versus reality: Understanding employment inequities for Inuit women in mining

Katie Mazer, Justine Becker,and Suzanne Mills

13. A mine for women? Trajectories of Kanak women in the nickel industry in New Caledonia

Guillaume Vadot, Christine Demmer, Séverine Bouard, and Mathilde Baritaud

14. Conclusion

Postface: MinErAL Partner Reflections

A: How MinErAL expose and share the realities of mining development in the Nunavik region

Jean-Marc Séguin

B: The impact of the MinErAL from the perspective of a Kanak

Jean-Louis Thydjepache