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Land, territory, resources

 

• Braun, B. 2000. "Producing vertical territory: Geology and governmentality in late Victorian Canada", Ecumene 7(1): 7-­46.

 

This paper relates developments in the science of geology to forms of governmental
rationality in Canada during the late nineteenth century. By so doing it opens for discussion a topic rarely broached by political theorists: the role that the earth sciences played in the historical evolution of forms of political rationality. The paper contests theoretical approaches that understand the relation between scientific knowledge and state rationality as only instrumental. Instead, the paper demonstrates how attending to the temporality of science (as evident in the emergence of specifically geological ways of seeing nature during the period) helps us understand the ways in which science is constitutive of political rationality, rather than merely its instrument. This argument is developed through a critique of Michel Foucault’s concept of ‘governmentality’, a concept that historicizes political rationality, yet remains silent on how the physical sciences contributed to its varied forms. The paper concludes with reflections on the implications of such an argument for theories of the social production of nature.

 

• Ferguson, J. 2005. "Seeing Like An Oil Company: Space, Security, and Global Capital in Neoliberal Africa", American Anthropologist, 107 (3): pp.377-382.

 

• Pasternak, S. 2014. "How Capitalism Will Save Colonialism: The Privatization of Reserve Lands in Canada", Antipode, [online first]

 

 

• Bridge, G. and T. Frederiksen. 2012. "Order out of Chaos': Resources, Hazards and the Production of a Tin-Mining Economy in Northern Nigeria in the Early Twentieth Century", Environment and History, 18 (3): pp.367-­394.

Abstract

This paper examines the development of commercial tin mining in northern Nigeria in the early twentieth century. It recounts how a fundamentally unknown space - an underground zone lying at the edge of Empire - came to be constructed as a mineral rich region, and subsequently integrated with capital and commodity markets in Europe as an extractive economy. From 1902 onwards, the landscape of the Jos Plateau was re-worked to supply tin ores and concentrates to smelters, refineries and fabricators in Europe. At their height, the mines of northern Nigeria provided almost one-tenth of the world's tin. The paper's primary aim is to problematise the processes of ordering and disordering that transformed the Plateau into an extractive economy. To this end, it examines geological science and colonial administration as practices that struggled to differentiate unfamiliar ecologies and invisible geologies into either resources to be exploited or hazards to be overcome. The paper illustrates the economic, political and cultural processes by which some conditions came to be seen as hazards (disease, seasonality of water supply, distance), while others were regarded as resources integral to the commerciality of mining on the Plateau (agricultural labour, land and water courses for sediment disposal, horizontal and vertical variation in ore grades). It shows how commercial exploitation of the Plateau's tin resources radically re-configured both physical landscapes and forms of social organisation on the Plateau, generating novel socio-natural juxtapositions that came to be experienced as poor working conditions, environmental hazards, and conflicts between agriculture and mining over access to land

 

• Cameron, E. 2012. "Securing Indigenous politics: A critique of the vulnerability and adaptation approach to the human dimensions of climate change in the Canadian Arctic", Global Environmental Change, 22, 103-­114.

 

• Huber, M. 2011. "Oil, Life, and the Fetishism of Geopolitics", Capitalism Nature Socialism, 22(3): 32-­48.

- Huber, M. 2013. Lifeblood: Oil, Freedom, and the Forces of Capital, Minneapolis:University of Minnesota Press.

 

• Hall,  R. 2012. "Diamond Mining in Canada’s Northwest Territories: A Colonial Continuity", Antipode, forthcoming [online first edition].

 

• Moore, D. S., J. Kosek & A. Pandian. 2003. Race, Nature. and the Politics of Difference. Durham, NC:Duke University Press.

 

• Smith, N. 2008 [1984]. Uneven Development: Nature, Capital, and the Production of Space. Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press

 

 

• Dempsey, J., S. Gould & J. Sundberg. 2011. "Changing Land Tenure, Defining Subjects: Neoliberalism and Property Regimes on Native Reserves", Rethinking the Great White North: Race, Nature, and Whiteness in Canada, eds. A. Baldwin, L. Cameron & A. Kobayashi. Vancouver: UBC Press, pp.233-255.