Extractive Hegemony in the Arctic: Energy Resources and Political Conflict in Nunavut, 1970-2017

• Main Author: Bernauer, Warren Max
• Other Authors: Roth, Robin J.
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: 2019
• Subjects: Environmental studies; Inuit; Nunavut; Baker Lake; Clyde River; uranium; nuclear; oil; natural gas; hydrocarbons; extraction; extractive industries; mining; seismic surveys; environmental assessment; land use planning; regional planning; co-management; Indigenous Rights; Aboriginal rights; Aboriginal title; duty to consult; land claims; modern treaties; Indigenous; Aboriginal; colonization; colonialism; internal-colonialism; settler-colonialism; state theory; hegemony; instrumental reason; anti-politics; post-politics; historical materialism; extractive capitalism; extractivism; Arctic; inuit; Kivalliq
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10315/36242

This dissertation explains how Nunavuts government and Inuit organizations have come to support an economy based on extraction and consent to especially controversial forms of energy extraction. To this end, it examines conflicts over energy resource extraction specifically uranium mining in the Kiv...