Contents

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Part I. The Organization of Fossil Capital

1. Boom, Bust, and Consolidation: Corporate Restructuring in the Alberta Oil Sands

Ian Hussey, Éric Pineault, Emma Jackson, and Susan Cake

2. Lines of Work, Corridors of Power: Extraction, Obstruction, and Counter-obstruction Along Fossil Fuel Production Networks

James Lawson

3. Landscapes of Risk: Financial Representations of Catastrophe

Mark Hudson

4. Who Owns Big Carbon? Mapping the Network of Corporate Ownership

William K. Carroll and Jouke Huijzer

5. Canada’s Fossil-Capital Elite: A Tangled Web of Corporate Power

William K. Carroll

Part II. The Struggle for Hearts and Minds

6. Fossil Capital’s Reach into Civil Society: The Architecture of Climate Change Denialism

William K. Carroll, Nicolas Graham, Michael Lang, Kevin McCartney, and Zoë Yunker

7. “Our Oil”: Extractive Populism in Canadian Social Media

Shane Gunster, Robert Neubauer, John Bermingham, and Alicia Massie

8. Episodes in the New Climate Denialism

Shannon Daub, Gwendolyn Blue, Lise Rajewicz, and Zoë Yunker

9. “Doing Things Better Together”: Industry Capture of Climate Policy in British Columbia

Shannon Daub, Chuka Ejeckam, Nicolas Graham, and Zoë Yunker

10. Petro-Universities and the Production of Knowledge for the Post-carbon Future

Laurie Adkin

11. The Oil Industry Is Us: Hegemonic Community Economic Identity in Saskatchewan’s Oil Patch

Emily Eaton and Simon Enoch

12. Indigenous Gendered Experiences of Work in an Oil-Dependent, Rural Alberta Community

Angele Alook, Ian Hussey, and Nicole Hill

13. Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Canada’s Carbon Economy and Indigenous Ambivalence

Clifford Atleo

Part III. Resistance and Beyond

14. From Clean Growth to Climate Justice

Marc Lee

15. Flashpoints of Possibility: What Resistance Reveals About Pathways Toward Energy Transition

Karena Shaw

16. Toward a Typology of Fossil Fuel Flashpoints: The Potential for Coalition Building

Fiona MacPhail and Paul Bowles

17. Fossil Fuel Divestment, Non-reformist Reforms, and Anti-capitalist Strategy

Emilia Belliveau, James K. Rowe, and Jessica Dempsey

18. Conclusion: Prospects for Energy Democracy in the Face of Passive Revolution

William K. Carroll

List of Contributors