First World Petro-Politics : The Political Ecology and Governance of Alberta / Laurie Adkin.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Adkin, Laurie, Editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Petroleum industry and trade--Political aspects--Alberta.

Petroleum industry and trade.

Petroleum industry and trade--Government policy--Alberta.

Petroleum industry and trade--Social aspects--Alberta.

Petroleum industry and trade--Environmental aspects--Alberta.

Alberta--Politics and government.

Alberta.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (691 p.)

Place of Publication:

Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2018]

Language Note:

In English.

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."-- Provided by publisher

"First World Petro-Politics examines the vital yet understudied case of a first world petro-state facing related social, ecological, and economic crises in the context of recent critical work on fossil capitalism."-- Provided by publisher

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Figures

Tables and Appendices

Preface

Acknowledgments

FIRST WORLD PETRO-POLITICS. The Political Ecology and Governance of Alberta

1. Ecology and Governance in a First World Petro-State / Adkin, Laurie E.

2. Fossil Capitalism and the Rentier State: Towards a Political Ecology of Alberta's Oil Economy / Carter, Angela V. / Zalik, Anna

3. Alberta's Neoliberal Environment / Adkin, Laurie E.

4. The Ecological and Political Landscapes of Alberta's Hydrocarbon Economy / Quinn, Michael S. / Alexander, Shelley M. / Kennett, Steven A. / Stelfox, Brad / Tyler, Mary-Ellen / Vlavianos, Nickie / Passelacross, Monique / Duke, Danah / Purves-Smith, Noah

5. The Petro-Politics of Environmental Regulation in the Tar Sands / Carter, Angela V.

6. Turning Up the Heat: Hegemonic Politics in a First World Petro-State / Adkin, Laurie E. / Stares, Brittany J.

7. The Alberta Oil/Tar Sands and Mainstream Media Framings between Globalization and Polarization / Davidsen, Conny

8. The Gendered and Racialized Subjects of Alberta's Oil Boomtown / O'Shaughnessy, Sara / Doğu, Göze

9. Constructing Participation in the Regulation of Alberta's Sour Gas / Garvin, Theresa

10. Mobilizing to Address the Impacts of Oil Sands Development: First Nations in Environmental Governance / Parlee, Brenda

11. Duty to Consult or Licence to Operate? Corporate Social Practice and Industrial Conflict in the Alberta Tar Sands and the Nigerian Niger Delta / Zalik, Anna

12. 'All Against the Haul': The Long Road to the Athabasca Tar Sands / Adkin, Laurie E. / Courteau, Benjamin

13. In the Path of the Pipeline: Environmental Citizenship, Aboriginal Rights, and the Northern Gateway Pipeline Review / Stendie, Larissa / Adkin, Laurie E.

14. Social Movements Scaling Up: Strategies and Opportunities in Opposing the Oil Sands Status Quo / Haluza-Delay, Randolph / Carter, Angela V.

15. Alberta's Electricity Future / Weis, Tim / Thibault, Benjamin / Miller, Byron

16. Alberta, Fossil Capitalism, and the Political Ecology of Change / Adkin, Laurie E. / Miller, Byron

17. Democracy and the Albertan Petro-State / Adkin, Laurie E.

Contributors

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 21. Dez 2019)

ISBN:

1-4426-9942-6

1-4426-9941-8

OCLC:

953834706