Please join Mark Nuttall and Rafico Ruiz in conversation at UAlberta North!
Wednesday, November 1st
12-1pm
Ring House 3 (across the Faculty Club)
Unnatural Resources: The Stories People Tell about Polar Environments
Historical and contemporary sites and practices of resource extraction across Polar environments can be seen as ways of ordering the world that foreground the tenuous and negotiated livelihoods available to residents of lands affected by extractive industries. Polar environments are also witness to a reconfiguration of ideas, narrative and stories about space, territory and place, as well as a range of anticipated futures. As geographer Emilie Cameron notes in Far Off Metal River, "stories are material ordering practices" and that "'storying the North' has been implicated in opening the region to imperial capital." Thinking out from their own experiences of sites and practices of extraction across circumpolar environments, Mark Nuttall (Professor and Henry Marshall Tory Chair, Anthropology) and Rafico Ruiz (Banting Postdoctoral Fellow, Sociology) will discuss what Polar resource stories matter today, for and by whom they're told, and what material ordering practices they are giving rise to.
Wednesday, November 1st
12-1pm
Ring House 3 (across the Faculty Club)
Unnatural Resources: The Stories People Tell about Polar Environments
Historical and contemporary sites and practices of resource extraction across Polar environments can be seen as ways of ordering the world that foreground the tenuous and negotiated livelihoods available to residents of lands affected by extractive industries. Polar environments are also witness to a reconfiguration of ideas, narrative and stories about space, territory and place, as well as a range of anticipated futures. As geographer Emilie Cameron notes in Far Off Metal River, "stories are material ordering practices" and that "'storying the North' has been implicated in opening the region to imperial capital." Thinking out from their own experiences of sites and practices of extraction across circumpolar environments, Mark Nuttall (Professor and Henry Marshall Tory Chair, Anthropology) and Rafico Ruiz (Banting Postdoctoral Fellow, Sociology) will discuss what Polar resource stories matter today, for and by whom they're told, and what material ordering practices they are giving rise to.