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Fighting Invasive Infrastructures: Indigenous Relations against Pipelines

Fighting Invasive Infrastructures: Indigenous Relations against Pipelines Fighting Invasive Infrastructures Indigenous Relations against Pipelines Anne Spice ABSTRACT: In the settler colonial context of so-called Canada, oil and gas projects are contemporary infrastructures of invasion. Th is article tracks how the state discourse of “critical infrastructure” naturalizes the environmental destruction wrought by the oil and gas industry while criminalizing Indigenous resistance. I review anthropolog- ical work to analyze the applicability of the concept of infrastructure to Indigenous struggles against resource extraction. Drawing on fi eldwork conducted in Indige- nous land defense movements against pipeline construction, I argue for an alternative approach to infrastructure that strengthens and supports the networks of human and other-than-human relations that continue to make survival possible for Indigenous peoples. KEYWORDS: anthropology, Indigenous relations, infrastructure, pipelines, settler colonialism Critical infrastructure refers to processes, systems, facilities, technologies, networks, assets and services essential to the health, safety, security or economic well-being of Canadians and the eff ective functioning of government. . . . Disruptions of critical infrastructure could result in catastrophic loss of life, adverse economic eff ects and signifi cant harm to public confi dence. (PSC 2018) In Unist’ot’en territory in northern British Columbia, Canada, clan members of the Wet’suwet’en people have built a permanent http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Environment and Society Berghahn Books

Fighting Invasive Infrastructures: Indigenous Relations against Pipelines

Spice, Anne
Environment and Society , Volume 9 (1) – Sep 1, 2018
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Abstract

Fighting Invasive Infrastructures Indigenous Relations against Pipelines Anne Spice ABSTRACT: In the settler colonial context of so-called Canada, oil and gas projects are contemporary infrastructures of invasion. Th is article tracks how the state discourse of “critical infrastructure” naturalizes the environmental destruction wrought by the oil and gas industry while criminalizing Indigenous resistance. I review anthropolog- ical work to analyze the applicability of the concept of infrastructure to Indigenous struggles against resource extraction. Drawing on fi eldwork conducted in Indige- nous land defense movements against pipeline construction, I argue for an alternative approach to infrastructure that strengthens and supports the networks of human and other-than-human relations that continue to make survival possible for Indigenous peoples. KEYWORDS: anthropology, Indigenous relations, infrastructure, pipelines, settler colonialism Critical infrastructure refers to processes, systems, facilities, technologies, networks, assets and services essential to the health, safety, security or economic well-being of Canadians and the eff ective functioning of government. . . . Disruptions of critical infrastructure could result in catastrophic loss of life, adverse economic eff ects and signifi cant harm to public confi dence. (PSC 2018) In Unist’ot’en territory in northern British Columbia, Canada, clan members of the Wet’suwet’en people have built a permanent

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Environment and Society – Berghahn Books

Published: Sep 1, 2018

Keywords: anthropology;Indigenous relations;infrastructure;pipelines;settler colonialism

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