Tłı̨chǫ women and the environmental assessment of the NICO Project proposed by Fortune Minerals Limited

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dc.contributor.authorKuntz, Janelle
dc.contributor.supervisorMatwychuk, Margo Lyn
dc.date.accessioned2016-08-31T21:30:47Z
dc.date.available2016-08-31T21:30:47Z
dc.date.copyright2016en_US
dc.date.issued2016-08-31
dc.degree.departmentDepartment of Anthropology
dc.degree.levelMaster of Arts M.A.en_US
dc.description.abstractThis thesis reviews the participation of Tłı̨chǫ women in the environmental assessment (EA) of the NICO project proposed by Fortune Minerals Limited. Undertaken in 2012 in the Northwest Territories, this particular EA saw a precedential engagement between traditional knowledge and western science. Although this EA did not take a gendered approach, Tłı̨chǫ women’s stories and participation in the EA supported the Tłı̨chǫ Government’s interests throughout the review process and in the final mitigation measures. Predominate scholarship does not typically cast Indigenous women as participants in or beneficiaries of EAs and resource extraction projects. Results from this thesis support more recent scholarship that urges for an ethnographic and contextual analysis of each scenario. Ethnographic methods helped me to reveal the culturally specific, diverse and complex ways Tłı̨chǫ women participated and shared their stories in the Fortune Minerals EA. Tłı̨chǫ women’s stories, I found, were important and relevant to the Mackenzie Valley Environmental Impact Review Board’s assessment of the potential social and ecological impacts of the NICO project. I conclude that this EA is exemplary of Indigenous women’s agency within a regulatory process and offer suggestions for how to incorporate a gender-based analysis into future EA processes.en_US
dc.description.proquestcode0733en_US
dc.description.proquestcode0326en_US
dc.description.proquestemailjanellek@uvic.caen_US
dc.description.scholarlevelGraduateen_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1828/7514
dc.languageEnglisheng
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.rightsAvailable to the World Wide Weben_US
dc.subjectGenderen_US
dc.subjectCritical gender analysisen_US
dc.subjectTraditional knowledgeen_US
dc.subjectEnvironmental assessmenten_US
dc.subjectTłı̨chǫen_US
dc.subjectTraditional knowledge and use studyen_US
dc.subjectPublic hearingsen_US
dc.subjectIndigenous womenen_US
dc.subjectNorthwest Territoriesen_US
dc.subjectEthnographyen_US
dc.subjectAgencyen_US
dc.subjectTUSen_US
dc.subjectRegulatoryen_US
dc.titleTłı̨chǫ women and the environmental assessment of the NICO Project proposed by Fortune Minerals Limiteden_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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