{"id":55753,"date":"2020-11-26T08:04:04","date_gmt":"2020-11-26T13:04:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=55753"},"modified":"2020-11-26T08:04:04","modified_gmt":"2020-11-26T13:04:04","slug":"spiked-bc-profs-protest-after-publisher-drops-book-on-canadian-mining","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=55753","title":{"rendered":"Spiked. BC Profs Protest after Publisher Drops Book on Canadian Mining"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Spiked. BC Profs Protest after Publisher Drops Book on Canadian Mining<\/a><\/h3>\n

UNBC researchers\u2019 book alleging wrongdoing in Guatemala was accepted, reviewed, then cancelled.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n

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Catherine Nolin and Grahame Russell say their book on the activities of Canadian mining companies in Guatemala was based on years of research in the country.\u00a0Photo supplied.<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n
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Two British Columbia university professors are accusing a major academic publisher of blocking scrutiny of Canadian mining companies by cancelling publication of their book.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have a responsibility to publicize what happened,\u201d wrote University of Northern British Columbia geography professor and department chair Catherine Nolin and UNBC adjunct professor Grahame Russell in an\u00a0open letter<\/a>\u00a0to Springer Nature. Russell lives in Toronto and runs UNBC\u00a0field courses<\/a>\u00a0in Guatemala with Nolin.<\/p>\n

Nolin and Russell co-edited\u00a0Canadian Mining in the Aftermath of Genocides in Guatemala: The Violence, Corruption, and Impunity of Contemporary Predatory Mineral Exploitation<\/em>. Russell is also a founder and director of the advocacy group\u00a0Rights Action<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The book had passed peer review and was ready last February for publication, but after several months delay Springer Nature notified them that after a legal review it had decided to cancel their contract and return the rights to the manuscript to them. It cited libel concerns.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey didn\u2019t engage in any sort of tweaks,\u201d Russell said in a Zoom call. \u201cWe didn\u2019t think it would be five months of silence and then shut the door.\u201d<\/p>\n

Headquartered in Europe,\u00a0Springer Nature<\/a>\u00a0publishes thousands of titles a year according to its website, as well as journals including\u00a0Nature<\/em>.<\/p>\n

\u201cA major theme addressed in the articles, testimonies and analysis that comprise our book is the endemic corruption and impunity with which the mining companies addressed in the book have, variously, been able to operate in Guatemala, with their Guatemalan economic and political partners,\u201d Nolin and Russell wrote in their letter.<\/p>\n

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