Mining and Indigenous Livelihoods Rights, Revenues, and Resistance

Introduction

Part 1: Indigenous Peoples, Law, and Politics

1. The space left for Indigenous peoples’ voices in Canadian and Fennoscandian mining legal frameworks: A comparative analysis

Zoé Boirin-Fargues and Sophie Thériault

2.  Closure and connection: A Southwest Pacific reappraisal of the mining enclave

Pierre-Yves Le Meur and Glenn Banks

3. Foreign investor accountability for the violation of Indigenous peoples’ rights in international investment law and arbitrations: Reflections from the Bear Creek case

Zoé Boirin-Fargues

4. Power relationships, institutions, and mining: Comparing Indigenous Peoples’ participation in Canada and Brazil

Sabrina Bourgeois and Ana Catarina Zema

Part 2: Braiding Indigenous Views in the Mining Cycle

5. Indigenous Peoples’ relationships to large-scale mining in post/colonial contexts: Toward multidisciplinary comparative perspectives

Leah S. Horowitz, Arn Keeling, Francis Lévesque, Thierry Rodon, Stephan Schott, and Sophie Thériault

6. Environmental assessment as a knowledge infrastructure: Unpacking politics and power in impact evaluations for Indigenous communities

Ella Myette

7. Realizing Indigenous rights: Effective implementation of agreements between Indigenous Peoples and the extractive industry

Ciaran O’Faircheallaigh and Thierry Rodon

8. Comparative perspectives on the social aspects of mine closure and mine site transition in Canada and Australia

Sarah Holcombe, Sandy Worden, and Arn Keeling

Part 3: Navigating Relationships with Indigenous Communities

9. Understanding the silent dimensions of social acceptability of a lithium project in the Cree community of Nemaska

Julie Fortin

10. Lateral violence: Effects of external pressures on Indigenous communities

Kristina Sehlin MacNeil

Part 4: Indigenous Women and Resource Development

11. Employment trends for Indigenous women working in the Northern Territory’s large-scale mining industry: Real employment opportunities or empty corporate promises?

Jodi Cowdery and Andrew Taylor

12. Rhetoric versus reality: Understanding employment inequities for Inuit women in mining

Katie Mazer, Justine Becker,and Suzanne Mills

13. A mine for women? Trajectories of Kanak women in the nickel industry in New Caledonia

Guillaume Vadot, Christine Demmer, Séverine Bouard, and Mathilde Baritaud

14. Conclusion

Postface: MinErAL Partner Reflections

A: How MinErAL expose and share the realities of mining development in the Nunavik region

Jean-Marc Séguin

B: The impact of the MinErAL from the perspective of a Kanak

Jean-Louis Thydjepache

Biography

Thierry Rodon is a professor in the Department of Political Science at Université Laval, Canada, and holds the INQ Research Chair in Northern Sustainable Development.

Sophie Thériault is a full professor in the University of Ottawa’s Faculty of Law (Civil Law Section), Canada, where she served as vice-dean, Academic (2019–2023), and as vice-dean, Graduate Studies (2015–2017).

Arn Keeling is a settler-scholar and professor of geography at Memorial University of Newfoundland and Labrador in St. John’s, Canada.

Séverine Bouard is a human geographer (PhD) at IAC, New Caledonia.

Andrew Taylor is an associate professor of demography at the Northern Institute of Charles Darwin University in Australia.

"This groundbreaking book is an indispensable resource for anyone concerned about the impacts of mineral extraction on Indigenous Peoples and local communities worldwide. With meticulous research and a commitment to amplifying marginalized voices, the authors offer a comprehensive analysis of the complex dynamics surrounding mining encounters. By emphasizing comparative perspectives and the holistic understanding of social, environmental, economic, and cultural factors, this work sheds light on both the opportunities and challenges presented by extractive industries. Through collaboration with Indigenous organizations and partners across multiple countries, the MinErAL network has produced invaluable insights that contribute to the global dialogue on sustainable development and Indigenous rights. A must-read for policymakers, researchers, and advocates alike."

Rosa Galvez, Canadian Senator representing Quebec (Bedford); formerly a professor and head of the Civil and Water Engineering Department at Université Laval in Quebec City, Canada

“This collection is an excellent and necessary resource for those interested in the relations between mining and Indigenous Peoples. At a time when Indigenous Peoples are increasingly facing pressures from extractive industry, this book convincingly shows the need for a comparative approach and a holistic understanding of the impacts of these activities.”

Chris Southcott, Professor in the Department of Sociology, Lakehead University, Canada