The Social Costs of Industrial Growth in the Sub-Arctic Regions of "Canada"

• Main Author: Cody, Caylee T
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Scholarship@Western 2015
• Subjects: Decolonization; Indigeneity; Capitalism; Industrial growth; Corporate Social Responsibility; Impact Benefit Agreements; Identity; Power; Social Control; Heteropatriarchy; Civic and Community Engagement; Defense and Security Studies; Economic Policy; Environmental Policy; Gender and Sexuality; Health Policy; Inequality and Stratification; Infrastructure; Other Public Affairs; Public Policy and Public Administration; Peace and Conflict Studies; Policy Design; Analysis; and Evaluation; Political Science; Public Administration; Public Affairs; Public Policy; Race and Ethnicity; Regional Sociology; Rural Sociology; Law; Crime; and Deviance; Social Policy; Sociology; Arctic; Attawapiskat; Canada
• Online Access: https://ir.lib.uwo.ca/etd/2820; https://ir.lib.uwo.ca/context/etd/article/4405/viewcontent/Final_submission_of_thesis.pdf

Colonialism in the land that is now called “Canada” is rooted in the ongoing dispossession of Indigenous people’s way of existing and interacting with the world. The present study identifies that the social costs of industrial growth are part of an ongoing process of colonialism which continues to annex Indigenous lands to feed the capitalist economy and reify the power of the state. Through a comparative analysis of literature written about the Attawapiskat First Nation and the Innu Nation, the study reveals that the financial rewards of industrial growth are few, while the cultural, human, and environmental costs are many. The study adds to the growing body of work which seeks to present alternative narratives to those which are presented by state and corporate actors.