Table of Contents

1. Introduction: Resource communities in the imperfect grip of the past

2. History, memory and legacy in resource communities

3. Identity and reinvention in resource communities

4. Symbolic violence and healing in resource communities

5. Trauma and healing in resource communities: Invisible legacies and sources for optimism

6. Power knowledge and the governance of resource communities

7. Concentration problems and resource communities

8. Legacies and futures in the governance of resource communities

9. Tripping over the Real: Why strategies often do not work in resource communities

10. Strategy and community in resource communities

11. Conclusions: Legacies, (in) accessible parts, and navigating the futures of resource communities

12. A practical methodology: Self-analysis and strategy in resource communities

About the Author

Kristof Van Assche is a Professor of Planning, Governance and Development at the University of Alberta, Canada, and a Senior Fellow in the Centre for Development Research (ZEF) at Bonn University, Germany.

Monica Gruezmacher is a Research Associate in the Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Alberta, Canada, and a Teaching Assistant Professor at the School of Science and the Environment at Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada.

Lochner Marais is a Professor in the Centre for Development Support at the University of the Free State, South Africa, and an Honorary Professor at the Sustainable Minerals Institute at the University of Queensland, Australia.

Xaquin Perez-Sindin is an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Economic Sciences at the University of Warsaw, Poland.