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Map of the Ring of Fire Region. The location of Neskantaga First Nation is indicated by its English name of “Lansdowne House” on this map.

Infrastructural (Dis)Entitlement: Tactics of Dispossession on the Critical Minerals Frontier

By: Dayna Nadine Scott | The remote Indigenous communities of Ontario’s boreal north have been hovering on the edge of a new extractive frontier for more than a decade. As often is the case when extractive capital moves onto new ground, the small, remote Anishinaabe and Anishini communities across the peatlands of Treaty No. 9 have been both dreading and inviting transformative changes to their lands, lifeways, and livelihoods.

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Settler colonial infrastructures and infrastructure otherwise

By: Deborah Cowen | What is infrastructure? I think about infrastructure as matter that shapes motion itself. Brian Larkin (2013) suggests that infrastructures “comprise the architecture for circulation.” Infrastructure can underpin and sustain motion and circulation, but it can also inhibit, disrupt or foreclose motion.

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Infrastructure in the service of future imaginaries

By: Anne Spice | The reclamation and appropriation of the terminology of “infrastructure” challenges the state’s weaponization of that language. It is a reclamation and transformation of Canadian legal language that reifies and legitimizes forms of material invasion, among them colonial materializations like pipelines that are being built through unceded Indigenous territories.

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