Mining and Indigenous Livelihoods

This book maps the encounters between Indigenous Peoples and local communities with mining companies in various postcolonial contexts.

Combining comparative and multidisciplinary analysis, the contributors to this volume shine a light on how the mining industry might adapt its practices to the political and legal contexts where they operate. Understanding these processes and how communities respond to these encounters is critical to documenting where and how encounters with mining may benefit or negatively impact Indigenous Peoples. The experiences and reflections shared by Indigenous and non-Indigenous contributors will enhance our understanding of evolving practices and of the different strategies and discourses developed by Indigenous Peoples to deal with mining projects. By mobilizing in-depth fieldwork in five regions―Australia, Canada, Sweden, New Caledonia, and Brazil―this body of work highlights voices often marginalized in mining development studies, including those of Indigenous Peoples and women.

This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of mining and the extractive industries, sustainable development, natural resource management, and Indigenous Peoples.

The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.

Thierry Rodon is a professor in the Department of Political Science at Université Laval, Canada, and holds the INQ Research Chair in Northern Sustainable Development.

Sophie Thériault is a full professor in the University of Ottawa’s Faculty of Law (Civil Law Section), Canada, where she served as vice-dean, Academic (2019–2023), and as vice-dean, Graduate Studies (2015–2017).

Arn Keeling is a settler-scholar and professor of geography at Memorial University of Newfoundland and Labrador in St. John’s, Canada.

Séverine Bouard is a human geographer (PhD) at IAC, New Caledonia.

Andrew Taylor is an associate professor of demography at the Northern Institute of Charles Darwin University in Australia.