<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><xml><records><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="6.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>32</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Ritts, M.J.</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Sand and soil: Ecological management and the framing of Mildred Lake</style></title></titles><keywords><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">planning</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">social issues</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Syncrude</style></keyword></keywords><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2010</style></year></dates><urls><web-urls><url><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">https://tspace.library.utoronto.ca/bitstream/1807/32911/7/Ritts_Max_J_201006_MA_Thesis.pdf</style></url></web-urls></urls><publisher><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">University of Toronto Department of Geography </style></publisher><pub-location><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Toronto, Ontario.  </style></pub-location><pages><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">136 pages</style></pages><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">This paper explores representations of nature that emerge through the ecological management of Mildred Lake, Syncrude’s Alberta-based oil sands extraction facility. Examining the ways Mildred Lake’s ecology has been re-presented by site eco-management teams, I argue that technologically produced visions help reproduce the regime of power infusing a state-sanctioned scientific practice of eco- management. ‘Using governmentality theory, Chapter 1 contextualizes activities at Mildred Lake: I show how the Alberta government, tethering the growth of the oil sands to technological innovation, submits eco-management questions to a capital-driven state-developmental framework. Chapter 2 examines how state-sanctioned science is discursively performed through eco-management acts. Chapter 3 uses a case study approach to consider three Mildred Lake eco-management projects: Beaver Creek, the Tailings Pond, and reclamation. While Mildred Lake’s eco-management practices cannot withstand critical scrutiny, they reveal the culturally and ecologically significant transformations of nature required to sustain authority amid the destructive effects of bitumen extraction.</style></abstract><custom2><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Mildred Lake, Alberta</style></custom2><custom3><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/809728689</style></custom3><custom4><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">OSEMB</style></custom4></record></records></xml>