Framing Extractive Violence as Environmental (In)justice: A Cross-Perspective from Indigenous Lands in Canada and Sweden
Publisher: Extractive Industries and Society
Author(s): Louise Nachet, Caitlynn Beckett, and Kristina Sehlin MacNeil
Date: 2021
Topics: Extractive Resources, Governance, Land, Livelihoods
Countries: Canada, Sweden
This paper aims to explore Environmental Justice in two Indigenous contexts, Canada and Sweden, and uses the concept of Extractive Violence to discuss colonial articulations of extractivism and community strategies for dealing with it. Through analysis of existing research, as well as the experiences shared by the two Indigenous leaders, the paper investigates the different strategies and narratives of environmental justice enacted, and how is justice framed and discussed in response to extractive violence.