Diamonds as Development: Suffering for Opportunity in the Canadian North

• Main Author: Bell, Lindsay
• Other Authors: Heller, Monica, Humanities, Social Sciences and Social Justice Education
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Subjects: Diamonds; Northern Development; Vocational Education; Northwest Territories; 0340; Great Slave Lake
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/1807/65502

Despite the repeated collapse of mining towns and sites in the Great Slave Lake region, most residents embrace new resource projects as possibilities for creating viable futures. Situated at the intersection of socio-cultural and linguistic anthropology, this ethnographic investigation of the Canadi...