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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: UBC Press

Imprint: UBC Press

5 maps, 31 charts, 9 tables

Digital download
9780774830966
Published: December 2015

Digital download
9780774830959
Published: December 2015

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An analytical template for the study of globally-driven change, this book will appeal to a diverse range of students and scholars, including those interested in globalization, resource studies, BC studies, northern and rural studies, geography, political economy, indigenous studies, and Asia-Pacific studies.

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