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- Title
COLONIAL WALLS: PSYCHIC STRATEGIES IN CONTEMPORARY MINING-RELATED DISPLACEMENT.
- Authors
BUTLER, PAULA
- Abstract
In May 2011, African Barrick Gold, owner of the North Mara Gold Mine in northern Tanzania, announced a plan to erect a three-metre-high concrete wall to enhance security against incursions from local (displaced) populations. Taking this wall as both metaphorical and material, this paper questions the psychological impact of displacement on "displacers." How does this subject avoid psychic implosion? My review identifies legal infrastructure, mythologies of Canadian benevolence, CSR discourses, and community consultations as operating to provide psychic scaffolding for this dominant subject, who is thus inured against psychic distress and implosion in response to conditions of what can be deemed routine structural violence.
- Subjects
TANZANIANS; BENEVOLENCE; DISPLACEMENT (Psychology); ACACIA Mining PLC; MINERAL industries; CONCRETE wall design &; construction
- Publication
Refuge (0229-5113): Canada's Journal on Refugees / Revue Canadienne sur les Réfugiés, 2013, Vol 29, Issue 2, p87
- ISSN
0229-5113
- Publication type
Article