Article ID: CBB856275346

Land as material, knowledge and relationships: Resource extraction and subsistence imaginaries in Bristol Bay, Alaska (October 2018)

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This article examines the social, historical and political constitution of land and resource imaginaries in Bristol Bay, Alaska. We compare the dynamics of these different imaginaries in the region within the early permitting debates concerning the proposed Pebble Mine to understand the contemporary politics of defining and constructing ideologies of extractive resource use. We show that the civic epistemologies and ontologies embedded in different social, scientific and political practices help explain environmental actions and outcomes. We demonstrate that the contested fields of social imagination allow for resource exploitation – commodification, extraction and profit – that endangers nature, but also allow for building alternative imaginaries and constructions of land and value as key components of environmental justice and land sovereignty initiatives. Contestations can also highlight problematic and unjust resource practices that disenfranchise and destabilize subordinate industries, poor communities, indigenous lands and subsistence or renewable resource use. These divergent discourses, and the deliberative valuations of alternative futures that they contribute to, are not effectively considered in Alaska’s large mine permitting process.

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Authors & Contributors
McGonigle, Ian
Noam Bergman
Black, Megan
Spackman, Christy C. W.
Debbie Hopkins
Margaret H. Friedel
Concepts
Technoscience; science and technology studies
Imaginaries
Indigenous peoples; indigeneity
Mines and mining
Land use
Technology and society
Time Periods
21st century
20th century
20th century, late
Places
Western states (U.S.)
United States
Alaska (U.S.)
Great Britain
West Virginia (U.S.)
South Korea
Institutions
NTU Institute of Science and Technology for Humanity
National Science Foundation (U.S.)
Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO) (Australia)
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