Cumulative effects, anthropogenic changes, and modern life paths in sub-Arctic contexts. Envisioning the future in Northeastern British Columbia: the case of the Doig and Blueberry River First Nations

• Main Author: AMATULLI, GIUSEPPE
• Format: Thesis
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2022
• Subjects: Cumulative effects; Extractivism; Oil & Gas; Industrial Development; Land; First Nations; 1982 Canadian Constitution; Indian Act; Section 35; Treaty 8; Bill 41/DRIPA Act; UNDRIP; FPIC; Arctic; Blueberry River; Fort St. John; Indian
• Online Access: http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/14688/; http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/14688/1/PhD_Dissertation_28_Sept_2022.pdf

This work is an attempt to describe what is happening in North-eastern British Columbia, in an area where extractivism intertwined with the market-driven economy had been generating changes not always foreseen, understood, and mitigated. Drawing on my year of fieldwork (July 2019 - August 2020), I e...