Extractive Hegemony in the Arctic: Energy Resources and Political Conflict in Nunavut, 1970-2017

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dc.contributor.advisorRoth, Robin J.
dc.creatorBernauer, Warren Max
dc.date.accessioned2019-07-02T16:08:34Z
dc.date.available2019-07-02T16:08:34Z
dc.date.copyright2018-10-26
dc.date.issued2019-07-02
dc.date.updated2019-07-02T16:08:34Z
dc.degree.disciplineGeography
dc.degree.levelDoctoral
dc.degree.namePhD - Doctor of Philosophy
dc.description.abstractThis dissertation explains how Nunavuts government and Inuit organizations have come to support an economy based on extraction and consent to especially controversial forms of energy extraction. To this end, it examines conflicts over energy resource extraction specifically uranium mining in the Kivalliq region and oil and gas extraction in the Qikiqtani region from 1970 until the present. It uses the concept of hegemony as a framework to analyze these conflicts and their implications for the relationship between Inuit and the mining industry. The cases I examined show that the Canadian state responded to Inuit resistance to uranium and hydrocarbon extraction with a series of processes and mechanisms including environmental assessment, land use planning, land claims, and the legal discourse of Aboriginal rights which were structured to persuade Inuit to consent to an economy based on extraction. These mechanisms and processes all imposed economic compromises between Inuit and extractive capital. These compromises involved material sacrifices on the part of capital and served as enticements for Inuit to consent to extraction. Environmental assessment, planning, land claims, and Aboriginal rights also performed the ideological function of depoliticizing extraction. By providing depoliticized forums for discussing proposed extraction, they further facilitated the development of alliances between extractive capital and various institutions and social groups in Nunavut. These findings have important implications for scholarly debates about Canadian colonialism, environmental assessment, land claim agreements, and the duty to consult.
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10315/36242
dc.language.isoen
dc.rightsAuthor owns copyright, except where explicitly noted. Please contact the author directly with licensing requests.
dc.subjectEnvironmental studies
dc.subject.keywordsInuit
dc.subject.keywordsNunavut
dc.subject.keywordsBaker Lake
dc.subject.keywordsClyde River
dc.subject.keywordsuranium
dc.subject.keywordsnuclear
dc.subject.keywordsoil
dc.subject.keywordsnatural gas
dc.subject.keywordshydrocarbons
dc.subject.keywordsextraction
dc.subject.keywordsextractive industries
dc.subject.keywordsmining
dc.subject.keywordsseismic surveys
dc.subject.keywordsenvironmental assessment
dc.subject.keywordsland use planning
dc.subject.keywordsregional planning
dc.subject.keywordsco-management
dc.subject.keywordsIndigenous Rights
dc.subject.keywordsAboriginal rights
dc.subject.keywordsAboriginal title
dc.subject.keywordsduty to consult
dc.subject.keywordsland claims
dc.subject.keywordsmodern treaties
dc.subject.keywordsIndigenous
dc.subject.keywordsAboriginal
dc.subject.keywordscolonization
dc.subject.keywordscolonialism
dc.subject.keywordsinternal-colonialism
dc.subject.keywordssettler-colonialism
dc.subject.keywordsstate theory
dc.subject.keywordshegemony
dc.subject.keywordsinstrumental reason
dc.subject.keywordsanti-politics
dc.subject.keywordspost-politics
dc.subject.keywordshistorical materialism
dc.subject.keywordsextractive capitalism
dc.subject.keywordsextractivism
dc.titleExtractive Hegemony in the Arctic: Energy Resources and Political Conflict in Nunavut, 1970-2017
dc.typeElectronic Thesis or Dissertation

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