Extracting Reconciliation

ISBN-13: 9781032379081 / Twarda / 2023 / 104 str.

Hillary Predko

Opis

This book argues that reconciliation constitutes a critical contemporary mechanism through which colonialism is seeking to ensure continuing access to Indigenous lands and resources.

Spis treści

Introduction; 1. Reconciling Reconciliation; 2. Reconciling Geology; 3. Reconciling Resource Extraction; 4. Reconciling Waste; Conclusions: Reckoning

O autorze

Hillary Predko (MES Queen’s) is a researcher, writer, and artist based in Ontario. Her research explores issues around the materiality of waste, climate change, and social justice. Her Masters of Environmental Studies research explored the waste politics of resource extraction in Nunavut and earned Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada funding.

Myra J. Hird (DPhil Oxford) is Professor, elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, and Queen’s National Scholar in the School of Environmental Studies, Queen’s University, Canada. Professor Hird is Director of the research project Waste Flow and has published 12 books and over 80 articles and book chapters on a diversity of topics relating to waste and science studies.