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Resource Communities in a Globalizing Region -

Resource Communities in a Globalizing Region

Development, Agency, and Contestation in Northern British Columbia

Paul Bowles, Gary N. Wilson (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover
332 Seiten
2016
University of British Columbia Press (Verlag)
9780774830942 (ISBN)
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This book explores how the peoples and communities of northern British Columbia are responding to global demand for local resources.
Northern British Columbia has always played an important role in Canada's economy, but for many Canadians it also existed as an almost forgotten place: a vast territory where only a few roads, some railroad tracks, and a ferry system connected small cities, towns, and villages to the outside world. Now, as the global appetite for oil, gas, hydroelectricity, wood, and minerals intensifies, this resource-rich and geographically important region is being pulled onto the national and international economic stages.

As debates around pipelines, mines, and hydroelectric projects intensify in local coffee shops, distant boardrooms, and the halls of Parliament, this timely volume examines the connections and tensions between resource communities and global market forces, illuminating how governments, Aboriginal peoples, organized labour, NGOs, and the private sector are adapting to, resisting, and embracing change.

Paul Bowles is a professor of economics and international studies at the University of Northern British Columbia. He is the author of Capitalism (Pearson, 2012) and co-author (with Henry Veltmeyer) of The Answer Is Still No: Voices of Pipeline Resistance (Fernwood Books, 2014). Gary N. Wilson is a professor of political science at the University of Northern British Columbia and an adjunct professor at the Johnson-Shoyama Graduate School of Public Policy at the University of Saskatchewan. His work has appeared in the Canadian Journal of Political Science, Canadian Foreign Policy, and Europe-Asia Studies among other journals. Contributors: Ken Coates, Fiona MacPhail, Jim McDonald, Tracy Summerville, Henry Veltmeyer, John F. Young

Introduction: Globalization in a Northern, Resource-Based Region / Gary N. Wilson and Paul Bowles

1 "Globalizing" Northern British Columbia: What's in Word? / Paul Bowles

2 Northern British Columbia: What's in a Place? / John F. Young

3 Development, Province Building, and Globalization in Northern British Columbia / Ken Coates and John F. Young

4 Globalization and the Transformation of Aboriginal Society: The Tsimshian Encounter / Jim McDonald

5 Globalization and Multilevel Governance in Northern British Columbia: Opportunities and Challenges / Tracy Summerville and Gary N. Wilson

6 Development and Reconciliation: A New Relationship or Benevolent Colonialism? / Jim McDonald

7 Neoliberalism's Traction: An Analysis of Local Economic Development Officers' Views in Northern British Columbia / Paul Bowles

8 China and the Northern British Columbia Forest Products' Sector: Whose Saviour? / Paul Bowles and Fiona MacPhail

9 Mining and Energy in Northern British Columbia: Employment, Community, and Inclusion / Fiona MacPhail and Paul Bowles

10 Pipelines and Protest: Enbridge and After / Paul Bowles and Henry Veltmeyer

Conclusion: Which Direction for Northern British Columbia? / Paul Bowles and Gary N. Wilson

Index

Erscheinungsdatum
Zusatzinfo 5 maps, 31 charts, 9 tables
Verlagsort Vancouver
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Gewicht 480 g
Themenwelt Sachbuch/Ratgeber Natur / Technik Natur / Ökologie
Naturwissenschaften Biologie Ökologie / Naturschutz
Recht / Steuern EU / Internationales Recht
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie
Wirtschaft Volkswirtschaftslehre Wirtschaftspolitik
ISBN-13 9780774830942 / 9780774830942
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