scholarly journals Where is Fort McMurray? The Camera as a Tool for Assembling "Community"

2013 ◽  
Vol 38 (2) ◽  
pp. 191-210 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andriko Lozowy ◽  
Rob Shields ◽  
Sara Dorow
Keyword(s):  
Oil Sands ◽  
Multiple Scales ◽  
Public Display ◽  
Visual Narratives ◽  
Fort Mcmurray ◽  
Entry Points ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Extraction Complexes ◽  
On Line ◽  
Research Collective

In response to the global mythology spawned by visual representations of Fort McMurray, Canada, this article examines a critical, collaborative youth project that sought oblique entry points to prevailing storylines of “community” and to what it might mean to live in the shadow of one of the world’s largest resource extraction complexes. Building on visual methodologies where participants are encouraged to produce representations of home and place, we explore the two-way dynamic of the camera as a catalyst for assembling a temporary research collective and, by the same token, as a tool for composing and assaying the contours of “community.” The project under consideration encouraged participants to learn skills of photography and to dynamically engage with other participants, researchers, and the place(s) of Fort McMurray around the creation and public display of images in both on-line and off-line spaces. Where possibilities of “community” are polarized, occluded, and/or overdetermined by the visual narratives of rapid resource development, collaboration around the camera helps to discern and speak back to the fault lines of community — including as they play out in the everyday lives of youth. Specific photos and the narratives around them are used to illustrate how the camera created and revealed iterations and relations of community across multiple scales, from the microcosm of the photography research group to the regional infrastructure of oil sands production.

scholarly journals “Fighting the Same Old Battle”: Obscured Oil Sands Entanglements in Press Coverage of Indigenous Resistance in the Winter of 1983

2018 ◽  
Vol 43 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Patricia H. Audette-Longo
Keyword(s):  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Oil Sands ◽  
Healthcare Access ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Newspaper Coverage ◽  
Press Coverage ◽  
Indigenous Resistance ◽  
Fort Mcmurray ◽  
Energy Politics ◽  
Northern Alberta

Background  This article examines a week-long road blockade that took place in northern Alberta in January, 1983, organized by members of the Fort McKay First Nation and the Fort McKay Métis Community. The communities leveraged their blockade against a logging company, expanding the conversation to demand compensation, tougher oil sands pollution management, and better healthcare access. Analysis  A critical discourse analysis of newspaper coverage of the blockade in the local Fort McMurray Today and the provincial Edmonton Journal shows how links between the blockade and broader oil sands politics were minimized. Conclusions and implications  The article closes with considerations for contemporary journalistic practices of covering oil development, energy politics, and Indigenous resistance.Contexte  Cet article examine le blocus d’une semaine organisé par la Première Nation de Fort McKay et la Communauté Métis de Fort McKay au nord de l’Alberta en janvier 1983. Ces communautés ont mis à profit leur blocus contre une entreprise forestière pour demander des compensations, une gestion plus stricte de la pollution provenant des sables bitumineux et un meilleur accès aux soins.Analyse  Une analyse critique du discours utilisé pour parler du blocus dans les journaux, au niveau local dans le Fort McMurray Today et au niveau provincial dans le Edmonton Journal, démontre comment les liens entre le blocus et les politiques plus larges des sables bitumineux ont été minimisés.Conclusion et implications  L’article conclut avec des considérations pour les pratiques journalistiques contemporaines dans la couverture du développement pétrolier, politiques énergétiques et résistance autochtone.

Bringing the Everyday into the Culture/ Creativity Discourse

2010 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 49-59 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nancy Ettlinger
Keyword(s):  
Multiple Scales ◽  
Socially Constructed ◽  
Everyday Practices ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Alternative Conceptualization

This article critiques and offers an alternative conceptualization of ‘culture’ and ‘creativity’ using an actor-based and relational epistemology. ‘Culture’ and ‘creativity’ have been socially constructed in scale-specific terms that overlook everyday practices that can diverge from dominant patterns and suggest hopeful possibilities, which ironically are lost in many Left-leaning narratives. Hopeful possibilities are traceable analytically to circuits of material and discursive value, which are inextricably related but can entail different trajectories across scales. Tracing these trajectories requires analytical attention to microscale activity, that is, to individual actors’ material practices, which produce mutable, discursive and material value at multiple scales.

scholarly journals Credit Card Fraud Detection Using Fuzzy Rule Based Classifier

2020 ◽  
pp. 41-44
Author(s):  
Prof. Sangeetha J. ◽  
Jegatheesh B. S. ◽  
Balaji B ◽  
Hemnath N
Keyword(s):  
Credit Card ◽  
Fuzzy Rule ◽  
Fraud Detection ◽  
Financial Fraud ◽  
Rule Based ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
On Line ◽  
Web App ◽  
Rule Based Classifier ◽  
Credit Card Usage

Fraud detection is an emerging topic of notable importance. Data mining strategies have been applied most considerably to the detection of insurance fraud, monetary fraud and financial fraud. This project will mainly focus on detecting fraudulent credit card transactions. Fraud detection in telecommunication systems, particularly the case of extraordinary imposed fraud, providing an anomaly detection technique supported by way of a signature schema, fraud deals with cases regarding criminal purposes that typically are different to identify, have additionally attracted a a tremendous deal of attention in latest years. The use of credit cards has dramatically increased because of a fast advancement inside the electronic commerce technology. Credit card will become the most popular mode of payment for each on line as properly as ordinary purchase, in instances of fraud related to it are also growing day through day. In this research sequence of operations in credit card transaction processing using a Fuzzy rule based classifier and accuracy is improved in the detection of frauds compared to other algorithms. A Naïve Bayes is initially trained with the everyday behaviour of a card holder. If an incoming credit card transaction is not accepted by the trained version with sufficiently excessive probability, it’s considered to be fraudulent. At the same time, it ensures that true transactions aren’t rejected. Supervised learning requires prior type to anomalies. In this research fuzzy rule primarily based category set of rules used for modelling real world credit card information statistics and detecting the anomaly usage of credit card information’s. Whenever anomaly credit card usage detected the system will capture the anomaly user face and freeze the anomaly user system. Django framework is used for web app creation.

scholarly journals Energy Justice and Canada’s National Energy Board: A Critical Analysis of the Line 9 Pipeline Decision

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 783 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carol Hunsberger ◽  
Sâkihitowin Awâsis
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Oil Sands ◽  
Climate Change Impacts ◽  
Indigenous Autonomy ◽  
The Public ◽  
Public Acceptability ◽  
Indigenous Nations ◽  
Indigenous Lands ◽  
On Line ◽  
Energy Justice

This paper investigates the values and priorities reflected in a Canadian pipeline review: The National Energy Board (NEB) decision on Line 9. Theories of energy justice guided analysis of evidence presented at NEB hearings, the NEB’s explanation of its decision, and a Supreme Court challenge. We find that several aspects of energy justice were weak in the NEB process. First, a project-specific scope obstructed the pursuit of equity within and between generations: the pipeline’s contributions to climate change, impacts of the oil sands, and cumulative encroachment on Indigenous lands were excluded from review. Second, the NEB created a hierarchy of knowledge: it considered evidence of potential spill impacts as hypothetical while accepting as fact the proponent’s claim that it could prevent and manage spills. Third, recognition of diversity remained elusive: Indigenous nations’ dissatisfaction with the process challenged the NEB’s interpretation of meaningful consultation and procedural fairness. To address the challenges of climate change and reconciliation between Indigenous and settler nations, it is crucial to identify which kinds of evidence decision-makers recognize as valid and which they exclude. Ideas from energy justice can help support actions to improve the public acceptability of energy decisions, as well as to foster greater Indigenous autonomy.

Field Experience With On-Line Monitoring of Biofilm Activity

2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
George J. Licina
Keyword(s):  
Oil Sands ◽  
Power Plants ◽  
Complete System ◽  
Degradation Mechanism ◽  
Water Systems ◽  
Microbiologically Influenced Corrosion ◽  
Metallic Surfaces ◽  
Pulp And Paper Mills ◽  
Paper Mills ◽  
On Line

Piping reliability is critical to oil production, oil sands processing, refineries, power plants, pulp and paper mills, and various other industries. Corrosion, including Microbiologically Influenced Corrosion (MIC), is a primary degradation mechanism in pipelines. MIC of pipeline materials has been shown to occur in virtually all water systems and has caused expensive unplanned outages, the need for local repairs, and, in some cases, complete system replacement. The control of biofilm on surfaces is the most effective tool for mitigating MIC. Effective monitoring for biofilms also helps to avoid the overuse of oxidizing biocides. Biocide overdosing will increase corrosion and can produce catastrophic corrosion effects. Optimized treatments require accurate, on-line monitoring of biofilm activity. Plant experience with an electrochemical biofilm sensor with integrated data acquisition and data analysis capabilities for monitoring biofilm activity on metallic surfaces and the use of that tool for optimizing biocide additions in a variety of environments is described.

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