Slow Disturbance: Infrastructural Mediation on the Settler Colonial Resource Frontier

by Rafico Ruiz

Book Overview

From the late nineteenth through most of the twentieth century, the evangelical Protestant Grenfell Mission in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada, created a network of hospitals, schools, orphanages, stores, and industries with the goal of bringing health and organized society to settler fisherfolk and Indigenous populations. This infrastructure also served to support resource extraction of fisheries off Labrador's coast. In Slow Disturbance...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1478007982
• ISBN13: 9781478007982
• Release Date: April 2021
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.08 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"