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Campus Alberta Collection

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table of contents
  1. Cover
  2. Acknowledgements
  3. Introduction • Framing the Debate on Democracy and Governance in an Oil-Exporting Economy
  4. Part One • The Context of Democracy in an Oil Economy
    1. 1. Liberal Democracy in Oil-Exporting Countries: A View from the Perspective of Staples Theory
    2. 2. Petroleum, Politics, and the Limits of Left Progressivism in Alberta
    3. 3. Petro-politics in Alberta and Canada: A New Spatiality of Political Contestation?
    4. 4. Alberta’s Energy Paradigm: Prosperity, Security, and the Environment
    5. 5. The Political Economy of Oil and Democracy in Venezuela and Alberta
  5. Part Two • Rights Claims in an Oil Economy
    1. 6. Petroleum, Patriarchy, and Power: Women’s Equality in Canada and Iran
    2. 7. Development at What Cost? First Nations, Ecological Integrity, and Democracy
    3. 8. Worker Safety in Alberta: Trading Health for Profit
    4. 9. Exporting Oil, Importing Labour, and Weakening Democracy: The Use of Foreign Migrant Workers in Alberta
    5. 10. Gendering Energy Extraction in Fort McMurray
  6. Part Three • Governance, Identity, and Citizenship in an Oil Economy
    1. 11. A Window on Power and Influence in Alberta Politics
    2. 12. The Paradox of Plenty: Ending Homelessness in Alberta
    3. 13. “The Sharpest Knives in the Drawer”: Visual Culture at the Intersection of Oil and State
    4. 14. Blurring the Boundaries of Private, Partisan, and Public Interests: Accountability in an Oil Economy
  7. Conclusion • Of Democracy and Its Deficits: Surviving Neoliberalism in Oil-Exporting Countries
  8. List of Contributors
  9. Index

A book in the Campus Alberta Collection, a collaboration of Athabasca University Press, the University of Alberta Press and the University of Calgary Press.

The logos of Campus Alberta Collection, Athabasca University Press, University of Alberta Press and the University of Calgary Press

Alberta Oil and the Decline of Democracy in Canada (2015)

Edited by Meenal Shrivastava and Lorna Stefanick

978-1-77199-029-5 (paperback)

Athabasca University Press • aupress.ca

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