Extractive industries have negative impacts on Indigenous peoples

(Umea University) Extractive industries affect Indigenous peoples in Sweden and Australia, and Indigenous group's perspectives are often ignored or trivialised, according to a PhD thesis from Umeå University in Sweden. Kristina Sehlin MacNeil has collaborated with Indigenous organizations in developing concepts that include Indigenous peoples' perspectives on conflicts and power relations.

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