The Arctic remains of great interest for extractive industry development, despite fluctuating mineral and hydrocarbon prices, the technological political challenges accessing these resources. articles in this special section explore realities living close to industries Arctic; expectations surrounding projects; nature local distributed benefits; extent which knowledge is incorporated into public debates. In introduction, we consider how an 'extractivist' logic can stifle other ways...

Strategies to reduce, halt, and reverse global declines in marine biodiversity are needed urgently. We reviewed, coded, synthesized historical contemporary conservation strategies of the Kitasoo/Xai'xais First Nation British Columbia, Canada show how their approaches work. assessed whether actions classification system by Conservation Measures Partnership was able encompass this nation's approaches. All first-order aligned with Nation's actions; hereditary chief management responsibility...

International standards refer to Indigenous peoples’ right benefit from resource development, participate in decision-making and determine priorities development planning that directly affects them. While good practice exists sharing, peoples still lack opportunities for a meaningful role strategic planning. In his as UN Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Peoples, James Anaya identified ‘preferred model’ which have greater control over decisions project implementation, consequently more...

Ban, N., E. Wilson, and D. Neasloss. 2019. Strong historical ongoing indigenous marine governance in the northeast Pacific Ocean: a case study of Kitasoo/Xai’xais First Nation. Ecology Society 24(4):10. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-11091-240410

In the past two decades, lithium has gained critical global importance as a transition metal. Under President Evo Morales (2006–2019), Bolivian government launched national extraction industry in Uyuni salt flat. However, efforts to develop industrial-scale of there have been beset by considerable delays. Focusing on period Morales' presidency, this article analyses perceptions and its amongst people living region around flat, specifically urban centres. state media official communication...

Residents of the Komi Republic have enjoyed some benefits from oil industry, through taxation, jobs and business opportunities. They also suffered repeated spills, including one world's largest in 1994. Since most petroleum taxes go to Moscow for redistribution, economic are limited, focused urban centres. Rural populations, who suffer experience primarily companies' social projects. We analyse local perceptions corporate responsibility performance Lukoil-Komi consider how a weak—or...

The Nordic countries, including Sweden, are often considered to be at the forefront of drive introduce sustainable energy technology, household level, as part transition societies. For a become reality, all groups society have it, and social sciences role in investigating conditions for these involved. extent which diverse (including marginalised) communities households this equitable access relevant technologies, smart degree is shared value aspiration still unclear. We want explore what...

Corporate social responsibility (CSR) is promoted and critiqued by many players involved in or opposed to petroleum exploration extraction, although a common understanding of CSR’s theoretical practical meanings rarely exists. This paper uses Arctic the Barents region (Norway Russia) investigate local perceptions CSR. We conducted open-ended, semi-structured interviews four locations: Hammerfest, Murmansk, Komi Republic, Nenets Autonomous Okrug (NAO). Interviewees included population,...

Abstract The Arctic Environmental Responsibility Index (AERI) covers 120 oil, gas, and mining companies involved in resource extraction north of the Circle Alaska, Canada, Greenland, Finland, Norway, Russia, Sweden. It is based on an international expert perception survey among 173 members International Panel (IPAER), whose input processed using segmented string relative ranking (SSRR) methodology. Equinor, Total, Aker BP, ConocoPhillips, BP are seen as most environmentally responsible...

Céline Sciamma as writer and director is peculiarly attentive to sensory detail, what things feel like, how they can be touched. This attention felt through her collaborative work with of photography Crystel Fournier, who has worked on all Sciamma's films date in a creative collaboration proving just electric that between Claire Denis Agnès Godard. Reflecting date, linking Girlhood the earlier films, Didier Péron Elisabeth Franck-Dumas wrote Libération makes real body emotions individuals...

Sakhalin's multinational offshore oil and gas projects signify hope for the region's economic regeneration. They also pose an environmental threat to livelihoods of local natural resource-users, including few remaining reindeer herders. For herders over past century, industrial development, particularly in relation domestic onshore industry, has been associated with degradation loss pastures, family cohesion, language culture. The contrast physical mental freedom they enjoy living on land...

April 01 2005 Material Remains: Night and Fog Emma Wilson Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author Article Information Online Issn: 1536-013X Print 0162-2870 © October Magazine, Ltd. Massachusetts Institute of Technology2005 (2005) (112): 89–110. https://doi.org/10.1162/0162287054223954 Cite Icon Permissions Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Views contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Citation Wilson; Fog. 2005; doi:...

An examination of Lucile Hadzihalilovic's film 2004, Innocence, this article argues that childhood, child experience and its representation, offer prescient urgent material for thinking about the public private, raising issues identity newness/the newborn, influence intrusion, intimacy enclosure, growth metamorphosis. The malleable, mutating substance children's bodies, their environs imaginings, is seen to new insights into relation between private reflections on as fluid overlapping....

ABSTRACTThis article examines the cinematic representation of girls' lives in transition, move from childhood to adolescence, and negotiation a relation their environment kinship network. Referring Judith Butler's Giving an Account Oneself, it looks at ways which moving image representations can offer approach girl subject as always part opaque herself, shifting, precarious, unfixed unknowable. This is found its most acute full-blown first two feature films Mia Hansen-Love, Tout est pardone...