A Roundtable Discussion on The Price of Gold
Monday, 29 September from 11:00am – 12:15pm EDT
Nexus Centre – HSS Understanding Our Worlds Series
Join us for a discussion on The Price of Gold: Mining, Pollution, and Resistance in Yellowknife (McGill Queen’s, 2025) by John Sandlos (History) and Arn Keeling (Geography).
Responding: Pamela Klassen (Religion, U Toronto); Tina Loo (History, UBC); Sarah Perry (History, McMaster); and Max Viatori (Anthropology, MUNL), Katlia Lafferty (Dene Writer, Legal Scholar, and Environmental Advocate)

Feature Image: “Giant Mine headframe 05” by cambridgebayweather is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0.
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Arn Keeling is a professor in the Department of Geography at Memorial University of Newfoundland. As a settler-scholar, his research and publications focus on the historical and contemporary encounters of Indigenous communities in Northern Canada with large-scale resource developments.
Latest posts by Arn Keeling (see all)
- Hybrid Event – A Roundtable Discussion on The Price of Gold - September 4, 2025
- Special Issue of Journal of Political Ecology: “Indigenous Voices: Self-determination in mine site transitions and mine closure governance across nations.” - May 27, 2025
- Reflections on “The Wasting Resource” - November 4, 2024
- Tracing the Trough (Part 2): Exploring the history and future of mining in Quebec and Labrador - July 30, 2019
- Tracing the Trough (Part 1): Exploring the history and future of mining in Quebec and Labrador - July 2, 2019
- Historical Geography vol. 44 (2016) now available! - January 9, 2017
- Public screening and talk at Queen’s: “Guardians of Eternity” - November 4, 2016
- New book: Mining and Communities in Northern Canada - December 2, 2015
- Designing for the Future at Giant Mine - August 10, 2015
- Exploring extractive industries in the Arctic - November 13, 2013