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Resource Communities in a Globalizing Region

Resource Communities in a Globalizing Region

Development, Agency, and Contestation in Northern British Columbia

Edited by Paul Bowles and Gary N. Wilson

Published by: University of British Columbia Press

Imprint: UBC Press

332 Pages, 152.00 × 229.00 mm, 5 maps, 31 charts, 9 tables

Paperback
9780774830942
Published: July 2016

£28.99

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Hardcover
9780774830935
Published: December 2015

£79.00

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Northern British Columbia has always played an important role in Canada's economy, but for many Canadians it also existed as an almost forgotten place: a vast territory where only a few roads, some railroad tracks, and a ferry system connected small cities, towns, and villages to the outside world. Now, as the global appetite for oil, gas, hydroelectricity, wood, and minerals intensifies, this resource-rich and geographically important region is being pulled onto the national and international economic stages.

As debates around pipelines, mines, and hydroelectric projects intensify in local coffee shops, distant boardrooms, and the halls of Parliament, this timely volume examines the connections and tensions between resource communities and global market forces, illuminating how governments, Aboriginal peoples, organized labour, NGOs, and the private sector are adapting to, resisting, and embracing change.

Introduction: Globalization in a Northern, Resource-Based Region / Gary N. Wilson and Paul Bowles

1 "Globalizing" Northern British Columbia: What's in Word? / Paul Bowles

2 Northern British Columbia: What's in a Place? / John F. Young

3 Development, Province Building, and Globalization in Northern British Columbia / Ken Coates and John F. Young

4 Globalization and the Transformation of Aboriginal Society: The Tsimshian Encounter / Jim McDonald

5 Globalization and Multilevel Governance in Northern British Columbia: Opportunities and Challenges / Tracy Summerville and Gary N. Wilson

6 Development and Reconciliation: A New Relationship or Benevolent Colonialism? / Jim McDonald

7 Neoliberalism's Traction: An Analysis of Local Economic Development Officers' Views in Northern British Columbia / Paul Bowles

8 China and the Northern British Columbia Forest Products' Sector: Whose Saviour? / Paul Bowles and Fiona MacPhail

9 Mining and Energy in Northern British Columbia: Employment, Community, and Inclusion / Fiona MacPhail and Paul Bowles

10 Pipelines and Protest: Enbridge and After / Paul Bowles and Henry Veltmeyer

Conclusion: Which Direction for Northern British Columbia? / Paul Bowles and Gary N. Wilson

Index

Paul Bowles is a professor of economics and international studies at the University of Northern British Columbia. He is the author of Capitalism (Pearson, 2012) and co-author (with Henry Veltmeyer) of The Answer Is Still No: Voices of Pipeline Resistance (Fernwood Books, 2014).

Gary N. Wilson is a professor of political science at the University of Northern British Columbia and an adjunct professor at the Johnson-Shoyama Graduate School of Public Policy at the University of Saskatchewan. His work has appeared in the Canadian Journal of Political Science, Canadian Foreign Policy, and Europe-Asia Studies among other journals.

Contributors: Ken Coates, Fiona MacPhail, Jim McDonald, Tracy Summerville, Henry Veltmeyer, John F. Young

Resource Communities in a Globalizing Region provides an important framework for approaching the closely interconnected contemporary and historical problems associated with primary resource extraction in hinterland regions … Resource Communities should be required reading for policy-makers, businesspeople, and academics involved in or studying the diversity of issues associatedd with industrial development in northern British Columbia. - Hereward Longley, University of Alberta (BC Studies)