Making Fort McMurray Home: Space and Place on Canada’s New Frontier of Oil Production
Since the beginning of the 21st century, the city of Fort McMurray, in northern Alberta, has welcomed tens of thousands of newcomers attracted by the high salaries of a booming oil sands industry. In this context, one of the major challenges faced by the municipality and the companies is to retain e...
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ftdoajarticles:oai:doaj.org/article:2a6692cc09c049b8a83565b2cbd1ae63 2024-09-15T18:06:54+00:00 Making Fort McMurray Home: Space and Place on Canada’s New Frontier of Oil Production Sandrine Tolazzi https://doi.org/10.4000/orda.3008 https://doaj.org/article/2a6692cc09c049b8a83565b2cbd1ae63 EN FR eng fre Institut Pluridisciplinaire pour les Etudes sur l'Amérique Latine https://journals.openedition.org/orda/3008 https://doaj.org/toc/2273-0095 2273-0095 doi:10.4000/orda.3008 https://doaj.org/article/2a6692cc09c049b8a83565b2cbd1ae63 L'Ordinaire des Amériques, Vol 221 Fort McMurray oil sands space place community Latin America. Spanish America F1201-3799 Social Sciences H article ftdoajarticles https://doi.org/10.4000/orda.3008 2024-08-05T17:50:01Z Since the beginning of the 21st century, the city of Fort McMurray, in northern Alberta, has welcomed tens of thousands of newcomers attracted by the high salaries of a booming oil sands industry. In this context, one of the major challenges faced by the municipality and the companies is to retain employees and their families so as to build a sustainable community. In this paper, we will take a closer look at the way this challenge is being met, first by considering how humanistic geographers such as Yi-Fu Tuan and Edward Relph have defined the concepts of space and place so as to elaborate on this idea of “making Fort McMurray home.” Then, relying on field work conducted in October 2014, we will attempt to underline the different approaches the municipality and the oil sands companies have followed to frame the identity of Fort McMurray and promote identification with it. Finally, we will look into the part the non-profit sector plays in fostering a sense of place in this boom town. Article in Journal/Newspaper Fort McMurray Directory of Open Access Journals: DOAJ Articles L’Ordinaire des Amériques 221 |
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Since the beginning of the 21st century, the city of Fort McMurray, in northern Alberta, has welcomed tens of thousands of newcomers attracted by the high salaries of a booming oil sands industry. In this context, one of the major challenges faced by the municipality and the companies is to retain employees and their families so as to build a sustainable community. In this paper, we will take a closer look at the way this challenge is being met, first by considering how humanistic geographers such as Yi-Fu Tuan and Edward Relph have defined the concepts of space and place so as to elaborate on this idea of “making Fort McMurray home.” Then, relying on field work conducted in October 2014, we will attempt to underline the different approaches the municipality and the oil sands companies have followed to frame the identity of Fort McMurray and promote identification with it. Finally, we will look into the part the non-profit sector plays in fostering a sense of place in this boom town. |
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