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    First World Petro-Politics
    The Political Ecology and Governance of Alberta

    Laurie Adkin (Edited by)

    9781442612587

    Paperback / softback, published 24 May 2016

    696 pages, 46 b&w illustrations, 16 b&w tables
    22.9 x 15.2 x 2.5 cm, 0.9 kg

    "While not everyone will agree with the perspective of the authors, anyone interested in a deeper understanding of how fossil fuel resources have shaped Alberta’s environment, culture and especially political life will find a wealth of insight throughout this book."

    - George Hoberg (Alberta Views, January/February 2017)

    ‘For those readers interested in the Albertan petro-plays, Adkin's First World Petro-Politics is a must- read. For those uninterested or more likely unaware of Alberta's place in the global hydrocarbon industry, this volume serves notice: pay attention.’

    - James B. Johnson (Journal of Political Ecology vol 23:2016)

    ‘This book succeeds in offering many and varied empirically rich chapters that deploy a wide array of analytical lenses and that are based on detailed explorations of different facets of tar sands.’

    - Terry Hathaway (Environmental Politics January 2017)

    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.

    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.

    List of Figures
    List of Tables and Appendices
    Preface
    Acknowledgments

    1 Ecology and Governance in a First World Petro-State
    LAURIE E. ADKIN

    2 Fossil Capitalism and the Rentier State: Towards a Political Ecology of Alberta’s Oil Economy
    ANGELA V. CARTER and ANNA ZALIK

    3 Alberta’s Neoliberal Environment
    LAURIE E. ADKIN

    4 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

    5 The Petro-Politics of Environmental Regulation in the Tar Sands
    ANGELA V. CARTER

    6 Turning Up the Heat: Hegemonic Politics in a First World Petro-State
    LAURIE E. ADKIN and BRITTANY J. STARES

    7 The Alberta Oil/Tar Sands and ‘Mainstream’ Media Framings between Globalization and Polarization
    CONNY DAVIDSEN

    8 The Gendered and Racialized Subjects of Alberta’s Oil Boomtown
    SARA O’SHAUGHNESSY and GÖZE DOG˘U

    9 Constructing Participation in the Regulation of Alberta’s Sour Gas
    THERESA GARVIN

    10 Mobilizing to Address the Impacts of Oil Sands Development: First Nations in Environmental Governance
    BRENDA PARLEE

    11 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

    12 ‘All Against the Haul’: The Long Road to the Athabasca Tar Sands
    LAURIE E. ADKIN and BENJAMIN COURTEAU

    13 In the Path of the Pipeline: Environmental Citizenship, Aboriginal Rights, and the Northern Gateway Pipeline Review
    LARISSA STENDIE and LAURIE E. ADKIN

    14 Social Movements Scaling Up: Strategies and Opportunities in Opposing the Oil Sands Status Quo
    RANDOLPH HALUZA-DELAY and ANGELA V. CARTER/

    15 Alberta’s Electricity Future
    TIM WEIS, BENJAMIN THIBAULT, and BYRON MILLER

    16 Alberta, Fossil Capitalism, and the Political Ecology of Change
    LAURIE E. ADKIN and BYRON MILLER

    17 Democracy and the Albertan Petro-State
    LAURIE E. ADKIN

    Contributors
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