Description
Book SynopsisSince the beginning of the twenty-first century, diamonds have been lauded as a glistening driver of the northern Canadian economy. Canadian diamonds are cast with an imagined purity as though they had emerged by magic. 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. 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. Grounded in ethnographic work, the narratives of northern Indigenous women’s multiple labours offer unique insight into the gendered ways northern land and livelihoods have been restructured by the diamond industry.
Rebecca J
Table of Contents
1. Introduction Part One: Theorizing the Northern Mixed Economy 2. An Expanded Approach to Production 3. Wıìlıìdeh’s Mixed Economy Part Two: The Political Economy of Diamonds 4. The Global Political Economy of Canadian Diamonds 5. The Northwest Territories Diamond-Mining Regime Part Three: Indigenous Women’s Labour and the Diamond Mines 6. Time, Place, and the Diamond-Mining Regime 7. Social Reproduction and the Diamond-Mining Regime 8. Diamonds, Subsistence, and Resistance 9. Conclusion
