AN ECOFEMINIST ANALYSIS OF KATE BEATON’S DUCKS: TWO YEARS IN THE OIL SANDS
Exploring Ecological Issues in Graphic Narratives, Taylor & Francis Ltd, ss.79-95, 2026
- Yayın Türü: Kitapta Bölüm / Araştırma Kitabı
- Basım Tarihi: 2026
- Doi Numarası: 10.4324/9781003775645-5
- Yayınevi: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Sayfa Sayıları: ss.79-95
- Erciyes Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet
Özet
This chapter presents an ecofeminist analysis of Kate Beaton’s Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands, exploring how the graphic memoir reveals the intertwined effects of environmental harm, gendered labour, and settler-colonial structures in Canada’s oil sands. Set against the backdrop of Alberta’s oil sands, Beaton’s story chronicles the human toll of extractive capitalism, especially on women and First Nation people, as well as its impact on the environment. Using the dual dispossession of body and land, the book shows how industrial areas such as Fort McMurray function as frontier zones where settler colonialism persists. The work examines the exclusion of local nations from both land and labour in the Alberta region, despite their deep historical connections to the territory. The study also addresses the limited and often hostile conditions women encounter in male-dominated oil camp environments. By drawing connections between ecological destruction and the marginalisation of women and these communities, the chapter argues that Ducks critiques the broader systems of exploitation shaping both landscape and human experience in extractive economies, and analyses how exploitative policies transform the physical environment and devastate the identities, labour, and lives of those frequently excluded from these economies.