Aimée Craft – författare

Major Projects and Big Decisions critically examines megaprojects conducted in Indigenous territories to explore how we can foster better development in Canada.

This book considers, from both Indigenous and Western perspectives, the industrial transformations brought on by three Canadian hydroelectric megaprojects within Indigenous territory: Keeyask in Manitoba, Site C in British Columbia, and Muskrat Falls in Newfoundland and Labrador. The contributors examine the approaches to resource extraction that were used and the factors that allow current extractive models to persist. They then show how processes could and should support Indigenous nation-building and what an Indigenous reconciliation-centred approach to megaproject development might look like.

The resulting lessons are applied to the Ring of Fire mining complex in Northern Ontario, demonstrating the possibilities for better development and better outcomes for Indigenous communities.

This practical study gives concrete direction on implementing changes that would improve federal regulatory frameworks and resource use so that Indigenous peoples can benefit, while still preserving connections to land and culture.

What would Indigenous resurgence look like if the parameters were not set with a focus on the state, settlers, or an achievement of reconciliation? Indigenous Resurgence in an Age of Reconciliation explores the central concerns and challenges facing Indigenous nations in their resurgence efforts, while also mapping the gaps and limitations of both reconciliation and resurgence frameworks.

The essays in this collection centre the work of Indigenous communities, knowledge, and strategies for resurgence and, where appropriate, reconciliation. The book challenges narrow interpretations of indigeneity and resurgence, asking readers to take up a critical analysis of how settler colonial and heteronormative framings have infiltrated our own ways of relating to our selves, one another, and to place. The authors seek to (re)claim Indigenous relationships to the political and offer critical self-reflection to ensure Indigenous resurgence efforts do not reproduce the very conditions and contexts from which liberation is sought.

Illuminating the interconnectivity between and across life in all its forms, this important collection calls on readers to think expansively and critically about Indigenous resurgence in an age of reconciliation.

What would Indigenous resurgence look like if the parameters were not set with a focus on the state, settlers, or an achievement of reconciliation? Indigenous Resurgence in an Age of Reconciliation explores the central concerns and challenges facing Indigenous nations in their resurgence efforts, while also mapping the gaps and limitations of both reconciliation and resurgence frameworks.

The essays in this collection centre the work of Indigenous communities, knowledge, and strategies for resurgence and, where appropriate, reconciliation. The book challenges narrow interpretations of indigeneity and resurgence, asking readers to take up a critical analysis of how settler colonial and heteronormative framings have infiltrated our own ways of relating to our selves, one another, and to place. The authors seek to (re)claim Indigenous relationships to the political and offer critical self-reflection to ensure Indigenous resurgence efforts do not reproduce the very conditions and contexts from which liberation is sought.

Illuminating the interconnectivity between and across life in all its forms, this important collection calls on readers to think expansively and critically about Indigenous resurgence in an age of reconciliation.