{"product_id":"colonial-extractions-paula-butler-9781442649323","title":"Colonial Extractions: Race and Canadian Mining in Contemporary Africa","description":"\u003cp\u003eChallenging Canada's image as a humane, enlightened global actor, \u003cem\u003eColonial Extractions\u003c\/em\u003e examines the troubling racial logic that underpins Canadian mining operations in several African countries. Drawing on colonial, postcolonial, and critical race theory, Paula Butler investigates Canadian mining activities and the discourses which serve to legitimate this work.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThrough a series of interviews with senior personnel of businesses with mining operations in Africa, Butler identifies a continuation of the same colonialist mindset that saw resource ownership and racial dominance over Indigenous peoples in Canada as part of Canada's nation-building project. Financially, culturally, and psychologically, Canadians are invested in extracting resource-based wealth in the Global South, and - as Butler's analysis of Canada's influence over South Africa's first post-apartheid mining legislation shows - they look to legitimize that extraction through neoliberal legal frameworks and a powerful national myth of benevolence.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eComplementing analyses of the industry through political economy or critical development studies, \u003cem\u003eColonial Extractions\u003c\/em\u003e is a powerful and unsettling critique of the cultural dimension of Canada's mining industry overseas.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Paula Butler\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1442649321\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781442649323\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Toronto Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/19\/2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 400\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.60lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.00w x 1.30d","brand":"Paula Butler","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46292932329727,"sku":"9781442649323","price":86.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_0f3a6868-a9a0-4231-86af-d10d605473a2.jpg?v=1730210589","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/colonial-extractions-paula-butler-9781442649323","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}