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Grassy Narrows and Corporate Dispossession of Indigenous Waterways
From: Capitalism and Dispossession
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In Chapter 6, author Veldon Coburn examines the destruction of the English-Wabigoon River system in Northern Ontario for colonial capital. The chapter examines the history of colonial extraction in Canada and Northern Ontario, “accumulation by contamination,” Indigenous nations as sites for off-loading environmental costs and damages, the contamination of the English-Wabigoon river system, and the decimation of the forest in Ojibwe territory.
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Veldon Coburn
David P. Thomas is an associate professor in the Department of Politics and International Relations at Mount Allison University. His core area of research and teaching is focused on the role of Canadian actors — corporations, ngos, the Canadian state — in the Global South. Dave is the author of Bombardier Abroad: Patterns of Dispossession (Fernwood, 2018).
