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Author Butler, Paula, author.

Title Colonial extractions : race and Canadian mining in contemporary Africa / Paula Butler
Published Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 2015

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Description 1 online resource (x, 384 pages)
Contents Contemporary Canadian mining : colonial continuities -- Theorizing Canada's twenty-first-century colonialist mining project -- "I hear the rustling of gold under my feet" : mining, race, and the making of Canada -- "Something from nothing" : generating wealth in the racialized mining economy -- Racial rule : resource appropriation and the rule of law -- Who do we say we are? Narratives of Canadian mining professionals in African states -- "I wouldn't glorify them as prospectors" : colonial contact zones and the eradication of African 'artisanal' miners -- Refusing the "white man's burden" : investing in colour-blind mining in post-apartheid South Africa
Summary Challenging Canada's image as a humane, enlightened global actor, Colonial Extractions examines the troubling racial logic that underpins Canadian mining operations in several African countries
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes In English
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Subject Mineral industries -- Social aspects -- Africa
Mineral industries -- Economic aspects -- Africa
Mining corporations -- Africa
Mining corporations -- Canada
Miners -- Africa -- Social conditions
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Industries -- General.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- General.
Mineral industries -- Economic aspects
Mineral industries -- Social aspects
Miners -- Social conditions
Mining corporations
Race relations
SUBJECT Africa -- Race relations
Subject Africa
Canada
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781442619951
1442619953