Aborigines ; Canada ; Chemical pollution ; Community ; Extractive industry ; Governance ; Participation ; Risk ; Saskatchewan ; Social geography ; Uranium
Aborigenes ; Canada ; Comunidad ; Contaminación química ; Geografía social ; Gobernancía ; Industria extractiva ; Participación ; Riesgo ; Saskatchewan ; Uranio
This article analyses Aboriginal peoples' participation in environmental governance of uranium mining, Saskatchewan. Findings illustrate that risk assessments were presented in ways that rendered development as controllable and inevitable, which
, and asserting knowledges of global technological failures and local conditions that contradicted scientific reassurances. Aboriginal participants also highlighted the social injustices of development processes in Saskatchewan's north, which shaped