Women's gendered experiences of rapid resource development in the Canadian North: new opportunities or old challenges?
Degree: Rural Sociology Abstract: Rapid resource development in northern and rural Canada is leading to unprecedented social, political, economic and environmental changes in a number of communities. In particular, gendered identities and divisions of labour in northern Canadian communities are pois...
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fttriple:oai:gotriple.eu:10670/1.x1swb3 2023-05-15T16:17:35+02:00 Women's gendered experiences of rapid resource development in the Canadian North: new opportunities or old challenges? O'Shaughnessy, Sara Krogman, Naomi (Rural Economy) Parkins, John (Rural Economy) Kaler, Amy (Sociology) Dorow, Sara (Sociology) Reed, Maureen (School of Environment and Sustainability, University of Saskatchewan) 2011-06-13 http://hdl.handle.net/10048/1958 en eng University of Alberta. Rural Economy. 10670/1.x1swb3 http://hdl.handle.net/10048/1958 undefined ERA : Education and Research Archive socio anthro-se Thesis https://vocabularies.coar-repositories.org/resource_types/c_46ec/ 2011 fttriple 2023-01-22T18:26:34Z Degree: Rural Sociology Abstract: Rapid resource development in northern and rural Canada is leading to unprecedented social, political, economic and environmental changes in a number of communities. In particular, gendered identities and divisions of labour in northern Canadian communities are poised to be dramatically altered by increasing labour demands, shifting time-use patterns, and intensifying income inequalities. Through a feminist poststructuralist discourse analysis of print media coverage of gendered issues in Fort McMurray, and semi-structured interviews with thirty-two women working in either the male-dominated oil sector or the female-dominated social services sector, this dissertation examines how women in Fort McMurray, Alberta—the host community for the Athabasca oil sands—negotiate their identities and make sense of the opportunities and challenges associated with the recent oil boom. Drawing on materialist feminist and feminist poststructuralist theory, this dissertation first elaborates a comprehensive analytical framework for investigating gender in the context of natural resource extraction. This framework contends that gendered identities are inherently multiple, and divisions of labour are embedded in particular temporal and spatial contexts. Furthermore, this framework examines discursive and material contradictions in diverse gendered experiences of resource extraction in order to move beyond universalizing gendered interests and identities. Second, this dissertation examines how discursively constructed female subject positions in local and global print media over the past decade adopt a frame of frontier masculinity. I demonstrate that these subject positions become resources upon which women in Fort McMurray draw on to negotiate their identities in ways that perpetuate a sense of dependency and anomalousness. Finally, I explore how neoliberal discourses of individualism and meritocracy provide a potential site of resistance to hegemonic frontier masculinity in women’s narratives of ... Thesis Fort McMurray Unknown Canada Fort McMurray |
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Degree: Rural Sociology Abstract: Rapid resource development in northern and rural Canada is leading to unprecedented social, political, economic and environmental changes in a number of communities. In particular, gendered identities and divisions of labour in northern Canadian communities are poised to be dramatically altered by increasing labour demands, shifting time-use patterns, and intensifying income inequalities. Through a feminist poststructuralist discourse analysis of print media coverage of gendered issues in Fort McMurray, and semi-structured interviews with thirty-two women working in either the male-dominated oil sector or the female-dominated social services sector, this dissertation examines how women in Fort McMurray, Alberta—the host community for the Athabasca oil sands—negotiate their identities and make sense of the opportunities and challenges associated with the recent oil boom. Drawing on materialist feminist and feminist poststructuralist theory, this dissertation first elaborates a comprehensive analytical framework for investigating gender in the context of natural resource extraction. This framework contends that gendered identities are inherently multiple, and divisions of labour are embedded in particular temporal and spatial contexts. Furthermore, this framework examines discursive and material contradictions in diverse gendered experiences of resource extraction in order to move beyond universalizing gendered interests and identities. Second, this dissertation examines how discursively constructed female subject positions in local and global print media over the past decade adopt a frame of frontier masculinity. I demonstrate that these subject positions become resources upon which women in Fort McMurray draw on to negotiate their identities in ways that perpetuate a sense of dependency and anomalousness. Finally, I explore how neoliberal discourses of individualism and meritocracy provide a potential site of resistance to hegemonic frontier masculinity in women’s narratives of ... |
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Krogman, Naomi (Rural Economy) Parkins, John (Rural Economy) Kaler, Amy (Sociology) Dorow, Sara (Sociology) Reed, Maureen (School of Environment and Sustainability, University of Saskatchewan) |
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