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Climate Change and the Capitalist State in the Canadian Arctic: Interrogating Canada’s ‘Northern Strategy’
Studies in Political Economy
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Climate Change and the Capitalist State in the Canadian Arctic: Interrogating Canada’s ‘Northern Strategy’
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Medalye, Jacqueline
Foster, Ryan |
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Jacqueline Medalye and Ryan Foster’s article “Climate Change and the Capitalist State in the Canadian Arctic: Interrogating Canada’s ‘Northern Strategy’” also examines the state’s role in securing favourable conditions for capital in extractive industries. Focusing on the Canadian federal government’s 2009 Northern Strategy, they consider how geophysical changes in the Arctic resulting from climate change create new opportunities for capital accumulation, which will, in turn, exacerbate the problem of global warming. In this context, the Canadian state is employing military, diplomatic, scientific, and economic strategies to “lock in” resource extraction as the driver of economic development in the north, while dispossessing northern peoples of access to these resources and also to an environment that supports traditional livelihoods.
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Studies in Political Economy
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2013-01-02
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info:eu-repo/semantics/article
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application/pdf
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http://spe.library.utoronto.ca/index.php/spe/article/view/19270
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Studies in Political Economy; Vol 90 (2012): The Politics of Protest
1918-7033 0707-8552 |
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eng
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http://spe.library.utoronto.ca/index.php/spe/article/view/19270/16006
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