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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

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

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Athabasca University Press
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Regime of Obstruction: How Corporate Power Blocks Energy Democracy
William K. Carroll, Editor
978-1-77199-289-3 (paperback)

The Medium Is the Monster:
Canadian Adaptations of Frankenstein and the Discourse of Technology
Mark A. McCutcheon
978-1-77199-236-7 (hardcover)
978-1-77199-224-4 (paperback)

Public Deliberation on Climate Change:
Lessons from Alberta Climate Dialogue
Lorelei L. Hanson, Editor
978-1-77199-215-2 (paperback)

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University of Alberta Press
uap.ualberta.ca

Dissonant Methods: Undoing Discipline in the Humanities Classroom
Ada S. Jaarsma and Kit Dobson, Editors
978-1-77212-489-7 (paperback)

Feminist Acts: Branching Out Magazine and the Making of Canadian Feminism
Tessa Jordan
978-1-77212-484-2 (paperback)

Keetsahnak / Our Missing and Murdered Indigenous Sisters
Kim Anderson, Maria Campbell and Christi Belcourt, Editors
978-1-77212-367-8 (paperback)

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University of Calgary Press
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Creating the Future of Health: The History of the Cumming School of Medicine at the University of Calgary, 1967-2012
By Robert Lampard, David B. Hogan, Frank W. Stahnisch, and James R. Wright Jr.
978-1-77385-164-8 (paperback)

Intertwined Histories: Plants in Their Social Contexts
Edited by Jim Ellis
978-1-77385-090-0 (paperback)

Water Rites: Reimagining Water in the West
Edited by Jim Ellis
978-1-55238-997-3 (paperback)

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