Unsettling extraction through community relations to land

Rebecca Jane Hall

Chapter 4 in Handbook on Politics and Society, 2025, pp 68-84 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: Resource extraction is tightly woven through past and present processes of colonial and imperial dispossession, characterized by exploitation and violence. Contemporary extraction is simultaneously shaped by community relations to land and community resistance to and reshaping of extractive regimes. This chapter traces both the continuities of extractive violence and the ways in which contemporary extraction is being reconfigured by community resistance and relations to land. The chapter begins by locating extraction in colonial processes of dispossession. I then turn to the specificities of settler colonial dispossession in Northern Canada. In this context, I consider what it means to live and work at once within and beyond extraction. I look to the multiple ways in which northern Indigenous communities have responded to, resisted, and reshaped contemporary extractive operations and the transformative possibilities that are revealed in their relations to land that transcend extractivism.

Keywords: Resource extraction; Settler colonialism; Indigenous resurgence; Northern development; Mining; Dispossession (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
ISBN: 9781035301898
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