Extracting Decline: Resource Development and Mobile Labour in Canada (Nature|History|Society) - Softcover

Mazer, Katie

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0774871954 ISBN 13: 9780774871952

Verlag: University of British Columbia Press, 2026

Inhaltsangabe

The Alberta oil sands are known around the world, but less visible are the workers who sustain this industry. Extracting Decline investigates how it became normal for workers to travel thousands of kilometres from Canada's Maritime region to make a living in the oil patch.

Katie Mazer reveals the intimate links between regional underdevelopment and Canada's extractive economy. In the decades after the Second World War, the Canadian state formulated the Maritimes as a national problem. Framing the region's rural economies as unviable, policy makers worked to remake the Maritimes to fit a modern vision of the national economy.

Weaving together welfare and rural development policy, political economy, and workers' lived experiences, Extracting Decline documents how the devaluation of noncapitalist economies has helped transform land and labour for extraction. While the Maritime region has long been denigrated for its failure, Extracting Decline ultimately argues that it holds lessons for imagining a more just and sustainable world.

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Katie Mazer is an assistant professor of environmental and sustainability studies and women’s and gender studies at Acadia University. Her work has appeared in both popular and scholarly publications, including the Annals of the American Association of Geographers, Antipode, The Extractive Industries and Society, and several edited collections. She is from Prince Edward Island and lives in Kentville, Nova Scotia.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: University of British Columbia Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2026
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0774871954
• ISBN 13: 9780774871952
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 372
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