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In 2007, Canada became the third largest producer of diamonds in
the world. Primarily mined on the edge of the Arctic, these
diamonds are said to bring economic development and opportunity to
nearby Indigenous communities. In Under Pressure, anthropologist
Lindsay A. Bell examines the effects of diamond mining on an
increasingly diverse northern population. Through an ethnographic
focus on everyday life in Hay River, a multi-ethnic town in the
Northwest Territories, this book illustrates the different ways
Indigenous, settler, and immigrant northerners navigate the
opportunities and obstacles created by large-scale resource
development. By situating contemporary diamond mines within the
long history of extraction in the region, Bell describes the
social, cultural, and economic pressures that shape the people in
this Northern community. In contrast to many polarizing accounts
that deem mining as either good or bad, Under Pressure uses
diamonds as an anthropological prism to consider larger issues
related to Arctic extraction, globalization, Indigenous rights, and
ethical consumption.
This book is an ethnography of labor mobility and its challenges to
the idea of the nation. Using the example of francophone Canada, it
examines how social difference-race, ethnicity, language,
gender-has been used to sort out who must (or can) be mobile and
who must (or can) remain in place in the organization of global
circulation of human and natural resources. It argues that
"francophone Canada" can best be understood as an ethnoclass
category that has embedded francophones into specific forms of
labor mobility since the beginnings of European colonization, even
as their social difference has been constructed as national in the
interests of gaining political power. The result has been an
erasure both of francophone mobilities and of their contribution to
the rooted community that lies at the heart of the idea of the
nation, and of francophone capacity to resist economic
marginalization and exploitation. By following French Canadian
workers back and forth between eastern and central Canada and the
frontiers of the Canadian northwest, Sustaining the Nation explores
how contemporary forms of labor mobility make it increasingly
difficult for national structures and discourses to produce the
francophone nation. By following the ideological tensions between
language as a skill and language as a marker of belonging, the
authors present grounded evidence of how the globalized new economy
challenges the nation-state, and how mobilities and immobilities
are co-constructed.
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