Between Kitimat LNG Terminal and Monkey Beach

Literary-Geographic Methods and the Politics of Recognition in Resource Governance on Haisla Territory

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ID13100765
AuthorsRichard Milligan (0000-0002-9161-7801, Georgia State University, corresponding author), Tyler Mccreary (0000-0001-6305-6325, Florida State University)
Year2017
Volume4
Issue1
Pages45-65
Publication date2017-12-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueGeoHumanities (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2373-5678 • E-ISSN: 2373-566X
PublisherTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/2373566x.2017.1386074
OpenAlexW2773343404
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited40

This article uses a literary-geographic method to critique the recognition of Indigenous difference in settler-colonial resource governance. Situating analysis on Haisla traditional territories over which the Canadian state claims jurisdiction, we analyze how Indigenous culture is represented in an environmental assessment and a novel set in the same location. The environmental assessment of a liquefied natural gas terminal renders Haisla Indigeneity subject to forms of political economic calculation. In contrast, Haisla novelist Eden Robinson disrupts a colonial desire for Indigeneity as a contained and manageable object of governance. Placing these texts from different domains into productive interference, we expose the continued colonial captures that accompany recognition of Indigeneity in settler-colonial resource governance processes, and the necessity of thinking Indigeneity otherwise. This examination of the politics of recognition highlights how literary-geographic methods can be used to investigate both normative orderings and contestations of racial capitalism in the context of settler colonialism

Archaeology · Colonialism · Context (archaeology · Corporate governance · Economics · Environmental ethics · Environmental governance · Indigenous · Jurisdiction · Management · Political science · Politics · Resource (disambiguation · Sociology · Computer Science · History · Indigenous Health, Education, and Rights · Indigenous Studies and Ecology · Law · Mining and Resource Management · Ecology

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