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Mining Sick: Creatively Unsettling Normative Narratives about Industry, Environment, extraction, and the Health Geographies of Rural, Remote, Northern, and Indigenous Communities in British Columbia

2020

Aldred, T.-L., Alderfer-Mumma, C., de Leeuw, S., Farrales, M., Greenwood, M., Hoogeveen, D., O’Toole, R., Parkes, M.W., & Sloan Morgan, V.

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This article examines the consequences of the dominant pathologizing narrative in social science and health scholarship of Indigenous human and physical geographies as unhealthy, diseased, vulnerable, and undergoing extraction for Indigenous well-being and the environment. The authors aim to unsettle this narrative about sickness in others and reframe it, using feminist, anti-colonial and anti-racist approach.

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Mining Sick: Creatively Unsettling Normative Narratives about Industry, Environment, extraction, and the Health Geographies of Rural, Remote, Northern, and Indigenous Communities in British Columbia.

Aldred, T.-L., Alderfer-Mumma, C., de Leeuw, S., Farrales, M., Greenwood, M., Hoogeveen, D., O’Toole, R., Parkes, M.W., & Sloan Morgan, V. (2020). Mining sick: Creatively unsettling normative narratives about industry, environment, extraction, and the health geographies of rural, remote, northern, and Indigenous communities in British Columbia. The Canadian Geographer, 65(1), 82-96. https://doi.org/10.1111/cag.12660

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