Table of Contents

Foreword: The Paradoxical Politics of Participatory Praxis / Graeme Wynn

Preface

Introduction: People, Land, and Pipelines

1 “Very Nice Talk in a Very Beautiful Way”: The Community Hearing Process

2 “A Billion Dollars Cannot Create a Moose”: Perceptions of Industrial Impacts

3 Life under the Comprehensive Claim Agreement

4 Consultation and Other Legitimating Practices

Conclusion: The Politics of Participation

Notes

References

Index

Promotional Information

Large-scale industrial projects in the Canadian North require Aboriginal input – do current consultation and participatory processes address Aboriginal concerns or do they help legitimize project approvals?

About the Author

Carly A. Dokis is an assistant professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Nipissing University. Her research interests include political ecology, anthropology of development, collaborative research methodologies, and the ethnology of northern Canada. She has worked with communities in northern Ontario and the Northwest Territories with a broad focus on the social, economic, and political consequences of participatory environmental management.

Reviews

This book represents a significant contribution to our understanding of barriers to procedural justice in Aboriginal communities, and it offers important lessons for regulators, policy makers, and rights advocates well beyond the Northwest Territories. Senior undergraduate or graduate students interested in anthropology, indigenous studies, or political ecology will find the work accessible and very relevant to the contemporary history of development on aboriginal lands.
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