Lindsay Bell is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Anthropology at SUNY, Oswego. She is a specialist in Circumpolar North America. Her research and writing focus on labour migration and the politics of Indigenous recognition as they intersect with large-scale resource extraction.
Lindsay holds a PhD from the University of Toronto and an MA from the University of Alaska, Fairbanks. Her dissertation was an ethnographic study of the boom and bust of sub-arctic diamond mining in the Northwest Territories. She has also done extensive research on labour mobility among francophone Canadians working in Alberta and the Northwest Territories.
Selected publications:
Heller, M., L. Bell, M. Daveluy, H. Noel and M. McLaughlin (Under Contract, Oxford UP). Sustaining the Nation: Natural Resources and the Making of a National Linguistic Minority.
Bell, L.A. (2012) “In Search of Hope: Mobility on the Canadian Frontier” In Lem, W and P Gardiner-Barber (eds.) Migration in the 21st Century: Ethnography and Political Economy. Routledge: London, 207-246.
Heller, Monica & Lindsay Bell (2011) “Frontiers and Frenchness : pride and profit in the production of Canada”. In Alexandre Duchêne et Heller, Monica (éd.), Language in Late Capitalism: Pride and Profit. London: Routledge, 254-285.
Bell, L.A. (2010). “Economic Insecurity as Opportunity: Job Training and the Canadian Diamond Industry” in Daveluy, M, F Lévesque, and J Ferguson (eds.) Humanizing Security in the Arctic. Canadian Circumpolar Institute Press: Edmonton, 293-304.
Related links:
Academia.edu: mun.academia.edu/LindsayABell
Twitter: twitter.com/DrLibertyBell
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