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Neoliberal Governmentality

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This chapter illuminates the ways in which a neoliberal political programme is operating in Canada’s Arctic Framework, and identifies the productive forms of resistance demonstrated by Indigenous Peoples in the Canadian Arctic that play an equally constitutive role in the formation of neoliberal governance in the region. This chapters uses Mitchell Dean’s (Dean, Governmentality: Power and rule in modern society (2nd ed.). Sage, 2010) framework of neoliberal governmentality and Pat O’Malley’s (O’Malley, Economy and Society 25:310–326, 1996) notion of productive resistance to analyze two key documents: Canada’s Arctic and Northern Policy Framework (ANPF) (Canada, Canada’s arctic and northern policy framework. https://www.rcaanc-cirnac.gc.ca/eng/1560523306861/1560523330587, (2019)) and A New Shared Arctic Leadership Model (NSALM) (Simon, A new shared arctic leadership model. https://www.rcaanc-cirnac.gc.ca/eng/1492708558500/1537886544718, (2017)) As there has been a growing body of literature applying governmentality to Arctic issues, including research on environmental governance, globalization, sustainable development and mental health, this chapter adds to the body of scholarship by offering a governmentality analysis on neoliberalism in Canadian Arctic policy development.

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    E. Gail Russel

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  1. Arctic Centre, University of Lapland, Rovaniemi, Finland

    Marjo Lindroth

  2. Gender studies, University of Lapland, Rovaniemi, Finland

    Heidi Sinevaara-Niskanen

  3. Arctic Centre, University of Lapland, Rovaniemi, Finland

    Monica Tennberg

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Russel, E.G. (2022). Neoliberal Governmentality. In: Lindroth, M., Sinevaara-Niskanen, H., Tennberg, M. (eds) Critical Studies of the Arctic. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-11120-4_11

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