Mining the Heartland: Nature, Place, and Populism on the Iron Range

Honorable Mention, Outstanding Publication Award, given by the Environmental Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association

A riveting portrait of the cultural struggles and political conflicts of proposed copper-nickel mines in Minnesota’s Iron Range

On an unseasonably warm October afternoon in Saint Paul, hundreds of people gathered to protest the construction of a proposed copper-nickel mine in the rural northern part of their state. The crowd eagerly listened to speeches on ho...