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Extraction Empire: Undermining the Systems, States, and Scales of Canada´s Global Resource Empire, 2017-1217
Pierre (Ed B Langer
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Description for Extraction Empire: Undermining the Systems, States, and Scales of Canada´s Global Resource Empire, 2017-1217
Paperback. Editor(s): Belanger, Pierre; Lister, Professor Nina-Marie E. Num Pages: 740 pages, 627 figures. BIC Classification: 1KBC; KNAT; RND. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 246 x 189. .
How Canada became an empire in its own right and how Canadian life came to be mediated through mineral extraction. Extraction is the process and practice that defines Canada, at home and abroad. Of the nearly 20,000 mining projects in the world from Africa to Latin America, more than half are Canadian operated. Not only does the mining economy employ close to 400,000 people in Canada, it contributed $57 billion CAD to Canada's GDP in 2014 alone. Globally, more than 75 percent of the world's mining firms are based in Canada. The scale of these statistics naturally ... Read more
How Canada became an empire in its own right and how Canadian life came to be mediated through mineral extraction. Extraction is the process and practice that defines Canada, at home and abroad. Of the nearly 20,000 mining projects in the world from Africa to Latin America, more than half are Canadian operated. Not only does the mining economy employ close to 400,000 people in Canada, it contributed $57 billion CAD to Canada's GDP in 2014 alone. Globally, more than 75 percent of the world's mining firms are based in Canada. The scale of these statistics naturally ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
MIT Press Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2018
Condition
New
Weight
28g
Number of Pages
800
Place of Publication
Cambridge, Mass., United States
ISBN
9780262533829
SKU
V9780262533829
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About Pierre (Ed B Langer
Pierre Belanger, an independent landscape architect and urbanist, is editor of Extraction Empire: Undermining the Systems, States, and Scales of Canada's Global Resource Empire, coauthor of Ecologies of Power: Countermapping the Logistical Landscapes and Military Geographies of the U.S. Department of Defense (both published by the MIT Press), and Landscape as Infrastructure, Going Live: from States to Systems.
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