Almost three years ago, the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls released its final report and among its findings, the report identified resource extraction as a site of gender violence.

The relationship between extraction and gender violence has been observed in extractive sites around the globe. And in Canada, this gender violence is shaped by extraction and settler colonial dispossession of Indigenous lands and livelihoods.

Today in The Conversation Canada, Rebecca Hall of Queen’s University talks about her research and new book, Refracted Economies: Diamond Mining and Social Reproduction in the North, where she spoke with Dene, Métis, Inuit and non-Indigenous women in the Northwest Territories about their experiences with the mines.

She says, “The women I spoke with shared concerns that inequalities in both caring labours and finances were shaping conditions for interpersonal violence, and making it more difficult for women to leave violent situations.”

Also today:

• How Russia’s fixation on the Second World War helps explain its Ukraine invasion
• Contemporary Muslim artists continue to adapt Islamic patterns to challenge ideas about fixed culture
• Canada’s marine conservation toolbox needs an overhaul to counter climate change
• If Elon Musk succeeds in his Twitter takeover, it would restrict, rather than promote, free speech
• Climate change is altering the seasonal rhythm of plant life-cycle events

All the best.