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Mining the Heartland - Nature, Place, and Populism on the Iron Range (Paperback)
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Mining the Heartland - Nature, Place, and Populism on the Iron Range (Paperback)
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A riveting portrait of the cultural struggles and political
conflicts of proposed copper-nickel mines in Minnesota's Iron Range
On an unseasonably warm October afternoon in Saint Paul, hundreds
of people gathered to protest the construction of a proposed
copper-nickel mine in the rural northern part of their state. The
crowd eagerly listened to speeches on how the project would bring
long-term risks and potentially pollute the drinking water for
current and future generations. A year later, another proposed
mining project became the subject of a public hearing in a small
town near the proposed site. But this time, local politicians and
union leaders praised the mine proposal as an asset that would
strengthen working-class communities in Minnesota. In many rural
American communities, there is profound tension around the
preservation and protection of wilderness and the need to promote
and profit from natural resources. In Mining the Heartland, Erik
Kojola looks at both sides of these populist movements and presents
a thoughtful account of how such political struggles play out.
Drawing on over a hundred ethnographic interviews with people of
the region, from members of labor unions to local residents to
scientists, Kojola is able to bring this complex struggle over
mining to life. Focusing on both pro- and anti-mining groups, he
expands upon what this conflict reveals about the way whiteness and
masculinity operate among urban and rural residents, and the
different ways in which class, race, and gender shape how people
relate to the land. Mining the Heartland shows the negotiation and
conflict between two central aspects of the state's culture and
economy: outdoor recreation in the Land of Ten Thousand Lakes and
the lucrative mining of the Iron Range.
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