The Fourth World Is Emerging: A Zombie Mine Resurrection and the Refusal of the Tsilhqot’in

From: Capitalism and Dispossession

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In Chapter 4, co-authors Dawn Hoogeveen (a non-Indigenous settler) and Russell Myers Ross (a member of the Tsilhqot’in Nation) examine the struggles to preserve Teztan Biny (Fish Lake), located in Tsilhqot’in territory. The chapter highlights topics such as how British Columbia land use laws have authorized the legal dispossession of land from Indigenous Peoples, Crown authorization over Indigenous consent, the Dasiqox Nexwagwezan project, and the case of the Taseko (Prosperity) Mines.

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Contributors

Dawn Hoogeveen

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).

Russell Myers Ross

Veldon Coburn is an assistant professor at the University of Ottawa’s Institute of Indigenous Research and Studies. Veldon is Anishinaabe, a member of the Algonquins of Pikwàkanagàn. Veldon’s primary research focus is on Indigenous politics and policy in Canada with particular emphasis on political and economic theory.