Line 5: Threatening Indigenous Lifeways ...
Using theoretical frameworks from Indigenous scholars Dr. Anne Spice and Dr. Kyle Whyte, this paper seeks to demonstrate how Enbridge’s Line 5 dual oil pipeline and proposed tunnel project are forms of invasive infrastructure that enact environmental violence against Anishinaabe peoples, particularl...
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| Format: | Article in Journal/Newspaper |
| Language: | English |
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My University
2023
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| Online Access: | https://dx.doi.org/10.7302/7125 http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/handle/2027.42/176186 |
| Summary: | Using theoretical frameworks from Indigenous scholars Dr. Anne Spice and Dr. Kyle Whyte, this paper seeks to demonstrate how Enbridge’s Line 5 dual oil pipeline and proposed tunnel project are forms of invasive infrastructure that enact environmental violence against Anishinaabe peoples, particularly in Michigan, by threatening their collective continuance. This environmental violence is justified and obfuscated by Enbridge and sanctioned by the settler colonial states of Canada and the United States by framing fossil fuel infrastructure as a critical public good that serves the national security, economic growth, and energy independence of the nation states. Despite this settler capitalist framing, the environmental violence of Line 5 and other fossil fuel infrastructure against tribal nations and Indigenous peoples occurs at each stage in the lifecycle of fossil fuel infrastructure, from siting to decommissioning. Situated within a long history of Indigenous resistance to invasive infrastructure, ... |
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