Place‐making at a national scale

Framing tar sands extraction as “Canadian” in The Globe and Mail

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ID8091361
AuthorsToby Davine (Department of Geography Florida State University, corresponding author), Mary Lawhon (0000-0003-4850-1560, Department of Geography Florida State University), Joseph Pierce (Department of Geography Florida State University), John R Pierce (0000-0001-7331-5044)
Year2017
Volume61
Issue3
Pages428-439
Publication date2017-07-28
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueCanadian Geographies / Géographies canadiennes (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0008-3658 • E-ISSN: 1541-0064
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/cag.12392
OpenAlexW2741010723
LanguageEN
Citations received12
References cited36

Although the concept of place has most often been used to examine micro‐scale locales, recent explications of place‐making and place‐framing can usefully inform debates on nations, nationalism, and the nation‐state. Viewing the nation as a contested, unstable, and relational place enables a pluralist and dynamic understanding of how nation‐places are constructed and contested, by whom, and towards what ends. In this paper, we examine public debates over the extraction of the Canadian tar sands as an illustrative example of how place is negotiated, deployed, and contested to legitimize particular outcomes. We analyzed 50 articles from one of Canada's most widely circulated daily newspapers, The Globe and Mail. We found diverging place‐frames of Canada used by government, industry, Indigenous groups, environmentalists, and other stakeholders as they make cases for and against the development of the tar sands. Framings of Canada promoted by the government and industry—Canada as a modern, rational, and legitimate actor—featured most prominently in the sample. Importantly, however, counter‐frames trouble narratives of Canada's inherent benevolent and responsible nature, and offer a small, yet strong opposition to hegemonic national imaginaries

Archaeology · Framing (construction · Globe · Hegemony · Indigenous · Media studies · Narrative · Nationalism · Newspaper · Opposition (politics · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Diverse Aspects of Tourism Research · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Indigenous Health, Education, and Rights · History · Law

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