Mining and Indigenous Livelihoods Rights, Revenues, and Resistance

Introduction Part 1: Indigenous Peoples, Law, and Politics 1. The space left for Indigenous Peoples' voices in Canadian and Fennoscandian mining legal frameworks 2. Closure and connection: A Southwest Pacific reappraisal of the mining enclave 3. Foreign investor accountability for the violation of Indigenous Peoples' rights in international investment law and arbitrations 4. Power relationships, institutions, and mining Part 2: Braiding Indigenous Views in the Mining Cycle 5. Indigenous Peoples' relationships to large-scale mining in post/colonial contexts 6. Environmental assessment as a knowledge infrastructure 7. Realizing Indigenous rights: Effective implementation of agreements between Indigenous Peoples and the extractive industry 8. Comparative perspectives on the social aspects of mine closure and mine site transition in Canada and Australia Part 3: Navigating Relationships with Indigenous Communities 9. Understanding the silent dimensions of social acceptability of a lithium project in the Cree community of Nemaska 10. Lateral violence: Effects of external pressures on Indigenous communities Part 4: Indigenous Women and Resource Development 11. Employment trends for Indigenous women working in the Northern Territory's large-scale mining industry 12. Rhetoric versus reality: Understanding employment inequities for Inuit women in mining 13. A mine for women? Trajectories of Kanak women in the nickel industry in New Caledonia 14. Conclusion Postface: MinErAL Partner Reflections A: How MinErAL helped expose and share the realities of mining development in the Nunavik region B: The impact of the MinErAL Project from the perspective of a Kanak working for Koniambo Nickel