Frances Abele
Biographic Data
| ID | 5689586 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Frances Abele |
| GIVEN NAMES | Frances |
| FAMILY NAME | Abele |
| SIGNATURE | ABELE F |
| AFFILIATIONS | Carleton University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3158-163X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 15 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1981 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Extractive Industry and the Sustainability of Canada's Arctic Communities
Modern treaties, increased self-government, new environmental assessment rules, co-management bodies, and increased recognition and respect of Indigenous rights make it possible for northern communities to exert some control over extractive industries. Whether these industries can increase the well-being and sustainability of Canada’s Arctic communities, however, is still open to question. Extractive Industry and the Sustainability of Canada’s Ar…
Watkins, the Dene, and Northern political economy
In the mid-1970s, Mel Watkins was recruited by the Dene of the Northwest Territories in their opposition to the construction of a natural gas pipeline system in their homeland. The experience led him to a major breakthrough in the staple analysis as applied to Canada as he revised the analysis to take Indigenous land rights into account. Watkins’ time in Yellowknife was also the beginning of his lifelong commitment to redress injustices experienc…
Beyond the Berger Inquiry
The four decades since the Berger Inquiry have produced a large body of research demonstrating the positive and negative impacts of resource development on northern communities. However, little independent research has aimed to yield an understanding of how best to manage the impacts of resource development and to harness its benefits in ways that can promote long-term sustainable development. This question was the impetus for the Resources and S…
Care, Cooperation and Activism in Canada's Northern Social Economy
"People across Canada's North have created vibrant community institutions to serve a wide range of social and economic needs. Neither state-driven nor profit-oriented, these organizations form a relatively under-studied third sector of the economy. Researchers from the Social Economy Research Network of Northern Canada explore this sector through fifteen case studies, encompassing artistic, recreational, cultural, political, business, and economi…
Socialism and democracy
The untimely death of Ellen Meiksins Wood on January 14, 2016 deprived the Left of one of its most original voices. Following Meiksins Wood’s own approach to political theory, we consider her work about the contradictory relationship between capitalism and democracy, and her commitment to a political program that led beyond capitalism towards a genuinely democratic society, in the context of her life and times
What Now? Future Federal Responsibilities Towards Aboriginal People Living in Cities
For decades, successive federal governments insisted that the federal fiduciary responsibility to "Registered Indians" ended at reserve boundaries, while not recognizing any responsibilities for Non-Status Indians, Metis, and Inuit. The recent growth of urban Aboriginal populations has changed this situation dramatically. Many federal programs for urban Aboriginal people are not delivered in a "status-blind" fashion, while other services are stil…
Four Pathways to Aboriginal Self-Government in Canada
Recent decades have seen the rising of a vital, multifaceted politics in Canada, focused on the future relations between Aboriginal peoples and the Canadian state. While there are many debates about specific arrangements, there is consensus that the negotiated establishment of Aboriginal self-government constitutes a major piece of unfinished business for the Canadian federation. This essay seeks to contribute more structure and focus to contempo…
A Tribute to Neal Wood
Frances Abele, George Comninel, and David McNally have written about life of Neal Wood who founded Graduate Program of Social and Political Thought at York University and influenced generations of scholars with his commitment to socialism and his intellectual rigour. Wood applied a social-historical approach to study of political thought, especially study of liberalism, acknowledging its achievements while probing its limitations, particularly it…
Nunavut
The first didactic and enthusiastic wave of media reporting about the formation of Nunavut is over.Often encountering northern affairs or even Canada for the first time in 1999, reporters had to explain to their international readers (and many Canadians) what Nunavut was, who the Inuit were, and what the Arctic was like (no roads!).Generally, observers were also engaged by the celebration in Nunavut and in Canada that attended the creation of the…
A Time To Celebrate
On April 1, 1999 the map of Canada will change forever. The Northwest Territories will be divided to create Nunavut Territory and the new Northwest Territories in the west. The two new territories are the first new jurisdictions to be created in Canada since Newfoundland joined Confederation half a century ago - and they represent the first change to the map of Canada to result from Aboriginal peoples' political activism. It is a time for celebra…
Traditional Knowledge In Practice
Northern organizations, governments, and governments-in-waiting have been formally and informally attempting to incorporate into policy deliberations for some time. A public debate about this practice began in fall 1996, when Frances Widdowson and Albert Howard published criticisms of the Government of the Northwest Territories (GNWT) Traditional Knowledge Policy and of the requirement that traditional knowledge be incorporated into environmental…
Northerners
How Ottawa Spends
How Ottawa Spends, 1991-1992
This volume is the twelfth in the series on federal government spending and policy performance compiled by Carleton University's School of Public Administration. This edition assesses the future of Canada in the post-Meech, post-free trade era. Four articles concentrate on the increasing fragmentation of Canada after the failure of the Meech Lake Accord, and each of the others ponders various topics in the context of an era when the nature of the…
Running the North
Prince Patrick Island in Late Tertiary time, as suggested by J
Canadian Contradictions
Postwar northern political history is interpreted as a compressed reiteration of older patterns of Canadian development. It is argued that Native people and northerners have reacted to two contradictory tendencies in the Canadian constitutional tradition: liberal individualism and Tory top-down pragmatism. The general argument is that understanding current northern debates in this way exposes some grounds for long-term optimism about aboriginal a…
The 1982 Plebiscite on Division of the Northwest Territories
Frances Abele, Mark O. Dickerson, The 1982 Plebiscite on Division of the Northwest Territories: Regional Government and Federal Policy, Canadian Public Policy / Analyse de Politiques, Vol. 11, No. 1 (Mar., 1985), pp. 1-15
Interdepartmental coordination and northern development
This paper examines the relationship of past and current federal structures for northern policy development to existing federal northern policy requirements. Current policy‐making machinery, arguably appropriate to an earlier era of northern development, now serves neither the interests of any constituency ‐ native or non‐native northerners or the northern resource development industry ‐ nor the national interest. On the basis of a critical analy…
How Ottawa Spends
The 1982 Plebiscite on Division of the Northwest Territories
Frances Abele, Mark O. Dickerson, The 1982 Plebiscite on Division of the Northwest Territories: Regional Government and Federal Policy, Canadian Public Policy / Analyse de Politiques, Vol. 11, No. 1 (Mar., 1985), pp. 1-15
Interdepartmental coordination and northern development
This paper examines the relationship of past and current federal structures for northern policy development to existing federal northern policy requirements. Current policy‐making machinery, arguably appropriate to an earlier era of northern development, now serves neither the interests of any constituency ‐ native or non‐native northerners or the northern resource development industry ‐ nor the national interest. On the basis of a critical analy…
Interdepartmental coordination and northern development
This paper examines the relationship of past and current federal structures for northern policy development to existing federal northern policy requirements. Current policy‐making machinery, arguably appropriate to an earlier era of northern development, now serves neither the interests of any constituency ‐ native or non‐native northerners or the northern resource development industry ‐ nor the national interest. On the basis of a critical analy…
The 1982 Plebiscite on Division of the Northwest Territories
Frances Abele, Mark O. Dickerson, The 1982 Plebiscite on Division of the Northwest Territories: Regional Government and Federal Policy, Canadian Public Policy / Analyse de Politiques, Vol. 11, No. 1 (Mar., 1985), pp. 1-15
Canadian Contradictions
Postwar northern political history is interpreted as a compressed reiteration of older patterns of Canadian development. It is argued that Native people and northerners have reacted to two contradictory tendencies in the Canadian constitutional tradition: liberal individualism and Tory top-down pragmatism. The general argument is that understanding current northern debates in this way exposes some grounds for long-term optimism about aboriginal a…
How Ottawa Spends, 1991-1992
This volume is the twelfth in the series on federal government spending and policy performance compiled by Carleton University's School of Public Administration. This edition assesses the future of Canada in the post-Meech, post-free trade era. Four articles concentrate on the increasing fragmentation of Canada after the failure of the Meech Lake Accord, and each of the others ponders various topics in the context of an era when the nature of the…
Running the North
Prince Patrick Island in Late Tertiary time, as suggested by J
Northerners
How Ottawa Spends
Traditional Knowledge In Practice
Northern organizations, governments, and governments-in-waiting have been formally and informally attempting to incorporate into policy deliberations for some time. A public debate about this practice began in fall 1996, when Frances Widdowson and Albert Howard published criticisms of the Government of the Northwest Territories (GNWT) Traditional Knowledge Policy and of the requirement that traditional knowledge be incorporated into environmental…
A Time To Celebrate
On April 1, 1999 the map of Canada will change forever. The Northwest Territories will be divided to create Nunavut Territory and the new Northwest Territories in the west. The two new territories are the first new jurisdictions to be created in Canada since Newfoundland joined Confederation half a century ago - and they represent the first change to the map of Canada to result from Aboriginal peoples' political activism. It is a time for celebra…
Nunavut
The first didactic and enthusiastic wave of media reporting about the formation of Nunavut is over.Often encountering northern affairs or even Canada for the first time in 1999, reporters had to explain to their international readers (and many Canadians) what Nunavut was, who the Inuit were, and what the Arctic was like (no roads!).Generally, observers were also engaged by the celebration in Nunavut and in Canada that attended the creation of the…
A Tribute to Neal Wood
Frances Abele, George Comninel, and David McNally have written about life of Neal Wood who founded Graduate Program of Social and Political Thought at York University and influenced generations of scholars with his commitment to socialism and his intellectual rigour. Wood applied a social-historical approach to study of political thought, especially study of liberalism, acknowledging its achievements while probing its limitations, particularly it…
Four Pathways to Aboriginal Self-Government in Canada
Recent decades have seen the rising of a vital, multifaceted politics in Canada, focused on the future relations between Aboriginal peoples and the Canadian state. While there are many debates about specific arrangements, there is consensus that the negotiated establishment of Aboriginal self-government constitutes a major piece of unfinished business for the Canadian federation. This essay seeks to contribute more structure and focus to contempo…
What Now? Future Federal Responsibilities Towards Aboriginal People Living in Cities
For decades, successive federal governments insisted that the federal fiduciary responsibility to "Registered Indians" ended at reserve boundaries, while not recognizing any responsibilities for Non-Status Indians, Metis, and Inuit. The recent growth of urban Aboriginal populations has changed this situation dramatically. Many federal programs for urban Aboriginal people are not delivered in a "status-blind" fashion, while other services are stil…
Care, Cooperation and Activism in Canada's Northern Social Economy
"People across Canada's North have created vibrant community institutions to serve a wide range of social and economic needs. Neither state-driven nor profit-oriented, these organizations form a relatively under-studied third sector of the economy. Researchers from the Social Economy Research Network of Northern Canada explore this sector through fifteen case studies, encompassing artistic, recreational, cultural, political, business, and economi…
Socialism and democracy
The untimely death of Ellen Meiksins Wood on January 14, 2016 deprived the Left of one of its most original voices. Following Meiksins Wood’s own approach to political theory, we consider her work about the contradictory relationship between capitalism and democracy, and her commitment to a political program that led beyond capitalism towards a genuinely democratic society, in the context of her life and times
Beyond the Berger Inquiry
The four decades since the Berger Inquiry have produced a large body of research demonstrating the positive and negative impacts of resource development on northern communities. However, little independent research has aimed to yield an understanding of how best to manage the impacts of resource development and to harness its benefits in ways that can promote long-term sustainable development. This question was the impetus for the Resources and S…
Watkins, the Dene, and Northern political economy
In the mid-1970s, Mel Watkins was recruited by the Dene of the Northwest Territories in their opposition to the construction of a natural gas pipeline system in their homeland. The experience led him to a major breakthrough in the staple analysis as applied to Canada as he revised the analysis to take Indigenous land rights into account. Watkins’ time in Yellowknife was also the beginning of his lifelong commitment to redress injustices experienc…
Extractive Industry and the Sustainability of Canada's Arctic Communities
Modern treaties, increased self-government, new environmental assessment rules, co-management bodies, and increased recognition and respect of Indigenous rights make it possible for northern communities to exert some control over extractive industries. Whether these industries can increase the well-being and sustainability of Canada’s Arctic communities, however, is still open to question. Extractive Industry and the Sustainability of Canada’s Ar…
Political science (14 works) · Law (10 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Politics (9 works) · Canadian Identity and History (7 works) · Indigenous Studies and Ecology (7 works) · Arctic and Russian Policy Studies (6 works) · Geography (6 works) · Political economy (6 works) · Economics (5 works)