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• Title:Where the rivers meet : pipelines, participatory resource management, and Aboriginal-state relations in the Northwest Territories / Carly A. Dokis ; foreword by Graeme Wynn.
  
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• Author/Creator:Dokis, Carly A. (Carly Ann), 1978- author.
  
• Other Contributors/Collections:Xwi7xwa Collection
  
• Published/Created:Vancouver : UBC Press, [2015]
  ©2015
  

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  • Location:XWI7XWA LIBRARY stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: NA D65 W44 2015
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• FNHL (Xwi7xwa) Subjects:Indigenous Peoples--Northwest Territories--Environmental concerns.
  Indigenous Peoples--Northwest Territories--Natural resources.
  Sahtu Dene--Pipelines.
  Sahtu Dene--Relations with government.
  
• Library of Congress Subjects:Mackenzie Gas Project.
  Environmental impact analysis--Northwest Territories--Decision making.
  Natural gas pipelines--Environmental aspects--Northwest Territories.
  Natural gas pipelines--Social aspects--Northwest Territories.
  Natural gas pipelines--Political aspects--Northwest Territories.
  Natural resources--Northwest Territories--Management.
  Northwest Territories--Environmental conditions.
  
• Description:xxvii, 207 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
  
• Series:Nature, history, society.
  
• Summary:"Oil and gas companies now recognize that industrial projects in the Canadian North can only succeed if Aboriginal communities are involved in the assessment of project impacts. Are Aboriginal concerns appropriately addressed through current consultation and participatory processes? Or is the very act of participation used as a means to legitimize project approvals? Where the Rivers Meet is an ethnographic account of Sahtu Dene involvement in the environmental assessment of the Mackenzie Gas Project, a massive pipeline that, if completed, would transport gas from the western subarctic to Alberta, and would have unprecedented effects on Aboriginal communities in the North. Carly A. Dokis reveals that while there has been some progress in establishing avenues for Dene participation in decision-making, the structure of participatory and consultation processes fails to meet expectations of local people by requiring them to participate in ways that are incommensurable with their experiential knowledge and understandings of the environment. Ultimately, Dokis finds that despite Aboriginal involvement, the evaluation of such projects remains rooted in non-local beliefs about the nature of the environment, the commodification of land, and the inevitability of a hydrocarbon-based economy."- Provided by publisher.
  
• Additional formats:Issued also in electronic format.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 188-195) and index.
  
• ISBN:9780774828468 (pbk.)
  0774828463 (pbk.)
  9780774828451 (bound)
  0774828455 (bound)
  9780774828475 (pdf)
  9780774828482 (epub)
  
• Contents:Foreword: The Paradoxical Politics of Participatory Praxis / Graeme Wynn
  Preface
  Introduction: People, Land, and Pipelines
  1 “Very Nice Talk in a Very Beautiful Way”: The Community Hearing Process
  2 “A Billion Dollars Cannot Create a Moose”: Perceptions of Industrial Impacts
  3 Life under the Comprehensive Claim Agreement
  4 Consultation and Other Legitimating Practices
  Conclusion: The Politics of Participation.