First world petro-politics : the political ecology and governance of Alberta

Adkin, Laurie Elizabeth, 1958- (author,, editor.).

Summary: "A wide-ranging and richly documented study of Alberta's political ecology--the relationship between the province's political and economic institutions and its natural environment--the volume tackles questions about the nature of the political regime, how it has governed, and where its primary fractures have emerged. Its authors examine Alberta's neo-liberal environmental regulation, institutional adaptation to petro-state imperatives, social movement organizing, Indigenous responses to extractive development, media framing of issues, and corporate strategies to secure social license to operate. Importantly, they also discuss policy alternatives for political democratization and for a transition to a low-carbon economy. The volume's conclusions offer a critical examination of petro-state theory, arguing for a comparative and contextual approach to understanding the relationships between dependence on carbon extraction and the nature of political regimes."--

Record details

ISBN: 9781442644199 (cloth)
ISBN: 9781442612587 (paper)
Physical Description: print
xix, 668 pages ; 23 cm
Publisher: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2016]
Copyright: © 2016

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Ecology and governance in a first world petro-state / Laurie E. Adkin -- Fossil capitalism and the rentier state: towards a political ecology of Alberta's oil economy / Angela V. Carter and Anna Zalik -- Alberta's neoliberal environment / Laurie E. Adkin -- The ecological and political landscapes of Alberta's hydrocarbon economy / Michael S. Quinn, Shelley M. Alexander, Steven A. Kennett, Brad Stelfox, Mary-Ellen Tyler, Nickie Vlavianos, Monique Passelac-Ross, Danah Duke, and Noah Purves-Smith -- The petro-politics of environmental regulation in the tar sands / Angela V. Carter -- Turning up the heat: hegemonic politics in a first world petro-state / Laurie E. Adkin and Brittany J. Stares -- The Alberta oil/tar sands and "mainstream" media framings between globalization and polarization / Conny Davidsen -- The gendered and racialized subjects of Alberta's oil boomtown / Sara O'Shaughnessy and Göze Doğu -- Constructing participation in the regulation of Alberta's sour gas / Theresa Garvin -- Mobilizing to address the impacts of oil sands development: First Nations in environmental governance / Brenda Parlee -- Duty to consult or licence to operate? Corporate social practice and industrial conflict in the Alberta tar sands and the Nigerian Niger Delta / Anna Zalik -- "All against the haul": the long road to the Athabasca tar sands / Laurie E. Adkin and Benjamin Courtreau -- In the path of the pipeline: environmental citizenship, Aboriginal rights, and the Northern Gateway Pipeline review / Larissa Stendie and Laurie E. Adkin -- Social movements scaling up: strategies and opportunities in opposing the oil sands status quo / Randolph Haluza-Delay and Angela V. Carter -- Alberta's electricity future / Tim Weis, Benjamin Thibault, and Byron Miller -- Alberta, fossil capitalism, and the political ecology of change / Laurie E. Adkin and Byron Miller -- Democracy and the Albertan petro-state / Laurie E. Adkin.