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table of contents
  1. Cover
  2. Acknowledgements
  3. Introduction
  4. Part I. The Organization of Fossil Capital
    1. 1. Boom, Bust, and Consolidation: Corporate Restructuring in the Alberta Oil Sands
    2. 2. Lines of Work, Corridors of Power: Extraction, Obstruction, and Counter-obstruction Along Fossil Fuel Production Networks
    3. 3. Landscapes of Risk: Financial Representations of Catastrophe
    4. 4. Who Owns Big Carbon? Mapping the Network of Corporate Ownership
    5. 5. Canada’s Fossil-Capital Elite: A Tangled Web of Corporate Power
  5. Part II. The Struggle for Hearts and Minds
    1. 6. Fossil Capital’s Reach into Civil Society: The Architecture of Climate Change Denialism
    2. 7. “Our Oil”: Extractive Populism in Canadian Social Media
    3. 8. Episodes in the New Climate Denialism
    4. 9. “Doing Things Better Together”: Industry Capture of Climate Policy in British Columbia
    5. 10. Petro-Universities and the Production of Knowledge for the Post-carbon Future
    6. 11. The Oil Industry Is Us: Hegemonic Community Economic Identity in Saskatchewan’s Oil Patch
    7. 12. Indigenous Gendered Experiences of Work in an Oil-Dependent, Rural Alberta Community
    8. 13. Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Canada’s Carbon Economy and Indigenous Ambivalence
  6. Part III. Resistance and Beyond
    1. 14. From Clean Growth to Climate Justice
    2. 15. Flashpoints of Possibility: What Resistance Reveals About Pathways Toward Energy Transition
    3. 16. Toward a Typology of Fossil Fuel Flashpoints: The Potential for Coalition Building
    4. 17. Fossil Fuel Divestment, Non-reformist Reforms, and Anti-capitalist Strategy
    5. 18. Conclusion: Prospects for Energy Democracy in the Face of Passive Revolution
  7. List of Contributors

Copyright © 2021 William Carroll
Published by AU Press, Athabasca University
1200, 10011 – 109 Street, Edmonton, AB T5J 3S8

https://doi.org/10.15215/aupress/9781771992893.01

Cover image: Voyata/Shutterstock.com

Cover design by Marvin Harder
Interior design by Sergiy Kozakov
Printed and bound in Canada

Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication

Title: Regime of obstruction : how corporate power blocks energy democracy / edited by William K. Carroll.

Names: Carroll, William K., editor.

Description: Includes bibliographical references.

Identifiers: Canadiana (print) 20200198262 | Canadiana (ebook) 20200199331
ISBN 9781771992893 (softcover) | ISBN 9781771992909 (pdf)
ISBN 9781771992916 (epub)

Subjects: LCSH: Energy policy—Canada. | LCSH: Oil sands industry—Environmental aspects—Canada. | LCSH: Fossil fuels—Environmental aspects—Canada. | LCSH: Oil sands industry—Economic aspects—Canada. | LCSH: Oil sands industry—Government policy—Canada. | LCSH: Corporate power—Canada. | LCSH: Business and politics—Canada.

Classification: LCC HD9574.C22 R44 2021 | DDC 338.2/72820971—dc23

This book has been published with the help of a grant from the Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences, through the Awards to Scholarly Publications Program, using funds provided by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.

We acknowledge the financial support of the Government of Canada through the Canada Book Fund (CBF) for our publishing activities and the assistance provided by the Government of Alberta through the Alberta Media Fund.

The logo of the Government of Alberta and the logo of the Government of Canada.

This publication is licensed under a Creative Commons licence, Attribution–Noncommercial–No Derivative Works 4.0 International: see www.creativecommons.org. The text may be reproduced for non-commercial purposes, provided that credit is given to the original author. To obtain permission for uses beyond those outlined in the Creative Commons licence, please contact AU Press, Athabasca University, at aupress@athabascau.ca.

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