The difficulty of recognizing the social impacts on a northern mining community: The case of Malartic (Quebec)
In 2011, the opening of an open-pit gold mine in the municipality of Malartic in Abitibi-Témiscamingue (Quebec, Canada) triggered a range of social changes. This article, drawing on an ethnographic research project involving 93 semi-directed interviews, describes the changes experienced by the Malarticois between 2006 and 2013. With reference to political ecology and political economy, the analysis exposes the main limits of public policies intended to take into consideration the social impacts observed in the Malartic case and shows how these policies are part of a neo-liberal logic.