Refracted Economies: Diamond Mining and Social Reproduction in the North Hall Rebecca Jane
Refracted Economies: Diamond Mining and Social Reproduction in the North Hall Rebecca Jane Since the beginning of the twenty-first century, diamonds have been lauded as a glistening driver of the…
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Refracted Economies: Diamond Mining and Social Reproduction in the North Hall Rebecca Jane
Since the beginning of the twenty-first century, diamonds have been lauded as a glistening driver of the northern Canadian economy. However, these diamonds are mined on Dene land and extracted by people who fly in from afar, separated from their families for long periods of time.Adopting a decolonizing and feminist approach to political economy, Refracted Economies analyses the impact of diamond mining in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories. Canadian diamonds are cast with an imagined purity as though they had emerged by magic.
Grounded in ethnographic work, the narratives of northern Indigenous women's multiple labours offer unique insight into the gendered ways The book centres on Indigenous women's social reproduction labour - both at the mine sites and at sites of community, home, and care - as a means of understanding the diffuse impacts of the diamond mines.
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