Extraction Empire - Undermining the Systems, States, and Scales of Canada's Global Resource Empire, 2017 -- 1217 Paperback
Extraction Empire - Undermining the Systems, States, and Scales of Canada's Global Resource Empire, 2017 -- 1217 Paperback How Canada became an empire in its own right and how Canadian life came to…
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Extraction Empire - Undermining the Systems, States, and Scales of Canada's Global Resource Empire, 2017 -- 1217 Paperback
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. 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. Of the nearly 20,000 mining projects in the world from Africa to Latin America, more than half are Canadian operated.
The scale of these statistics naturally extends the logic of Canada's historical legacy as state, nation, and now as global resource empire. Globally, more than 75 percent of the world's mining firms are based in Canada. Canada, once a far-flung northern outpost of the British Empire, has become an empire in its own right.This book examines both the historic and contemporary Canadian culture of extraction, with essays,