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    "pk": 54318,
    "title": "Infrastructural (Dis)Entitlement: Tactics of Dispossession on the Critical Minerals Frontier",
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    "abstract": "In Ontario’s far north, settler state authorities and extractive firms are engaged in coordinated tactics to gain ground amid a polarization in the positions of Indigenous leadership. Alongside a surging resistance, we also witness a resigned acceptance of critical minerals mining by some First Nations. Drawing on years of community-engaged research, I detail here the contemporary tactics of “infrastructural (dis)entitlement:” in this dynamic, infrastructural needs are both denied and fulfilled to differential effect. Infrastructural \ndisentitlement\n is passive; it is not necessarily deliberate, nor is it politically or institutionally organized. But infrastructural \nentitlement\n is strategic and aggressive: Indigenous prosperity and inclusion are key elements of the contemporary liberal justification for critical minerals extraction. From this, a pattern emerges of places toward which resources are flowing and places out of which they are draining. The chronic lack of community-focused infrastructure in some remote First Nations—characterized as a form of “letting die”—creates an attritional force that undermines the communities’ capacity to defend their homelands, to the advantage of the settler state and extractive firms.",
    "language": "en",
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        "text": null,
        "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0"
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    "keywords": [
        {
            "word": "Critical minerals"
        },
        {
            "word": "Indigenous dispossession"
        },
        {
            "word": "extractivism"
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        {
            "word": "infrastructural (dis)entitlement"
        }
    ],
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    "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0m10m2r6",
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        {
            "first_name": "Dayna",
            "middle_name": "Nadine",
            "last_name": "Scott",
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            "institution": "",
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    "date_submitted": "2025-01-30T20:33:51Z",
    "date_accepted": "2025-01-30T20:33:51Z",
    "date_published": "2025-01-31T08:00:00Z",
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