Canada

Latitude: 
56.13
Longitude: 
-106.35
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North America
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6 251 999

Women and Energy

About this issue

This volume of Perspectives offers a collection of largely untold stories that demonstrate women’s agency in energy transitions.

Content

"Boreal Forest Prospects and Politics: Paradoxes of First Nations Participation in Multi-sector Conservation"

This article explores the prospects and politics of indigenous participation in multi-sector conservation, using the case of the Boreal Leadership Council (BLC) in Canada. It concludes that multi-sector conservation creates both new possibilities for indigenous empowerment and new forms of marginalization through the reproduction of a (post)colonial geography of exclusion.