Extraction Empire
undermining the systems, states, and scales of canada's global resource empire, 2017—1217
$207.51
- Paperback
800 pages
- Release Date
30 July 2018
Summary
How Canada became an empire in its own right and how Canadian life came to be mediated through mineral extraction.Extraction is the process and practice that defines Canada, at home and abroad. Of the nearly 20,000 mining projects in the world from Africa to Latin America, more than half are Canadian operated. Not only does the mining economy employ close to 400,000 people in Canada, it contributed $57 billion CAD to Canada’s GDP in 2014 alone. Globally, more than 75 percent of the world’s mi…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262533829 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0262533820 |
| Series: | Extraction Empire |
| Author: | Pierre Bélanger |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 800 |
| Release Date: | 30 July 2018 |
| Weight: | 2.07kg |
| Dimensions: | 246mm x 189mm x 40mm |
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About The Author
Pierre Bélanger
Pierre Belanger, an independent landscape architect and urbanist, is editor of Extraction Empire- Undermining the Systems, States, and Scales of Canada’s Global Resource Empire, coauthor ofEcologies of Power- Countermapping the Logistical Landscapes and Military Geographies of the U.S. Department of Defense(both published by the MIT Press), and Landscape as Infrastructure, Going Live- from States to Systems.
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