Contributors

Laurie Adkin is a political economist and professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Alberta. Her main areas of research and teaching are political ecology, the populist radical right in Europe, and Alberta politics. Since 2002, she has studied the formation of climate change policy in both Alberta and Canada. She is the author of Politics of Sustainable Development: Citizens, Unions, and the Corporations (1998) and both the editor of and a contributor to Environmental Conflict and Democracy in Canada (2009) and First World Petro-Politics: The Political Ecology and Governance of Alberta (2016). Her recent work has focused on the political ecology of knowledge production in Alberta’s universities and on innovation policy and discourse as responses to the global climate crisis.

Angele Alook is an assistant professor in the School of Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies at York University and a member of Bigstone Cree Nation. She specializes in Indigenous feminism, life course approaches, Indigenous research methodologies, cultural identity, and the sociology of family and work. She is interested in synergies and disjunctures between ways of being, knowing, and doing on her traditional territory. She is directing her research toward a just transition of Alberta’s economy and labour force and the impact of climate change on traditional Treaty 8 territory.

Cliff Atleo (Niis Na’yaa/Kam’ayaam/Chachim’multhnii) is a Tsimshian (Kitsumkalum/Kitselas) and Nuu-chah-nulth (Ahousaht) scholar who researches and teaches Indigenous governance, political economy, and resource management at the School of Resource and Environmental Management at Simon Fraser University. He is interested in how Indigenous communities navigate and adopt and/or resist mainstream capitalism while at the same time working to sustain their cultural identities, practices, and world views. He is also interested in the revival of traditional economic practices as well as the exploration of new practices rooted in traditional Indigenous principles and values.

Emilia Belliveau is an organizer, artist, and researcher living on unceded Coast Salish territory. She holds a master’s degree from the University of Victoria’s School of Environmental Studies, where her research centred on environmental organizing among youth and, more broadly, on the political ecology of energy transitions.

John Bermingham is a graduate student in the School of Communication at Simon Fraser University. His work looks at the media coverage of climate and energy politics, with a particular comparative focus on the differences between corporate, public, and alternative news organizations and their journalistic approaches.

Gwendolyn Blue is an associate professor in the Department of Geography at the University of Calgary. Her research interests centre on the public deliberation of scientific findings and newly emerging technologies, with a focus on controversies surrounding climate change.

Paul Bowles is a professor who holds a cross appointment in the Department of Global and International Studies and the Department of Economics at the University of Northern British Columbia. His research areas include globalization, critical development studies, China’s political economy, and extractivism in northern British Columbia. Among his publications are The Essential Guide to Critical Development Studies (co-edited with Henry Veltmeyer, 2018) and Resource Communities in a Globalizing Region: Agency, Development and Contestation in Northern British Columbia (co-edited with Gary Wilson, 2015).

Susan Cake completed a master’s degree in sociology at York University before moving to the University of Alberta to pursue her PhD. In addition to her present research into union renewal and unions’ communication structures, she has received training in strategic corporate research at Cornell University’s IRL Worker Institute. She is currently the director of policy analysis for the Alberta Federation of Labour, where she focuses on occupational health and safety, workers’ compensation boards, and pensions.

William K. Carroll is a professor of sociology at the University of Victoria and was the founding director of UVic’s interdisciplinary Social Justice Studies program. Prominent among his interests are corporate power, global capitalism, social movements and the organization of dissent, policy alternatives, and the restoration of democracy. He is the author of numerous books, including, most recently, Organizing the 1%: How Corporate Power Works (with J. P. Sapinski); Expose, Oppose, Propose: Alternative Policy Groups and the Struggle for Global Justice; A World to Win: Contemporary Social Movements and Counter-Hegemony (with Kanchan Sarker); and The Making of a Transnational Capitalist Class: Corporate Power in the 21st Century. Since 2015, he has co-directed “Mapping the Power of the Carbon-Extractive Corporate Resource Sector,” also known as the Corporate Mapping Project.

Shannon Daub is the director of the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, BC Office, and co-director of the Corporate Mapping Project. In addition to environmental issues, her research interests include corporate power, social movements, and democratic capacity.

Jessica Dempsey is an associate professor in the Department of Geography at the University of British Columbia, where she works in the area of political ecology. Her current research examines the growing emphasis on economic and financial approaches to conservation and also explores the political economic drivers of biodiversity loss.

Emily Eaton is an associate professor in the Department of Geography and Environmental Studies at the University of Regina. She is the author of two books, Fault Lines: Life and Landscape in Saskatchewan’s Oil Economy (with photographer Valerie Zink) and Growing Resistance: Canadian Farmers and the Politics of Genetically Modified Wheat. Her work concerns environmental, social, and economic aspects of oil and resource development as well as the prospects for energy transition in oil-dependent communities.

Chuka Ejeckam is Director of Research and Policy at the BC Federation of Labour. As a policy researcher and writer working in the labour movement, he has focused on automation, deindustrialization, precarious employment, and climate change. He is also a master’s student in political science at the University of British Columbia, where his research centres on reparative drug policy, economic and political inequality, and structural racism.

Simon Enoch is director of the Saskatchewan Office of the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives and an adjunct professor in the Department of Politics and International Studies at the University of Regina. He completed a master’s degree in labour studies at McMaster University before earning his PhD in communication and culture from Ryerson University. His interests include corporate social responsibility, political ecology, and media discourse.

Nicolas Graham recently completed his PhD in the Department of Sociology at the University of Victoria, where he is also a sessional instructor. His work in the areas of critical political economy and political ecology has appeared in the Canadian Review of Sociology, BC Studies, and Capitalism Nature Socialism. He is currently conducting research into competing political projects for energy transition.

Shane Gunster teaches in the School of Communication at Simon Fraser University and is also a research associate with the Canadian Centre for Political Alternatives. His research interests cluster around advocacy and news media coverage in the area of climate and energy politics. He is one of the co-authors of Journalism and Climate Crisis: Public Engagement, Media Alternatives (2017) and is currently working on a book about the climate crisis and populism.

Nicole Hill is a PhD candidate in sociology at the University of Alberta. She is interested in perspectives on culture, bodies, and gender that are informed by intersectional feminisms. Her current research explores the social and cultural dimensions of violence that birthing people experience in the context of maternity health care in Alberta.

Mark Hudson is an associate professor in the Department of Sociology and the coordinator of the Global Political Economy program at the University of Manitoba, as well as a research associate at the Manitoba Office of the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives and a researcher with the Corporate Mapping Project. His work primarily concerns the political economic mediation of human relationships with non-human nature, although he has written as well on community economic development, ideology in economics, and welfare state policy, among other topics. He is a co-author of Neoliberal Lives: Work, Politics, Nature, and Health in the Contemporary United States (2019) and of Fair Trade, Sustainability, and Social Change (2013), as well as the author of Fire Management in the American West: Forest Politics and the Rise of Megafires (2011).

Jouke Huijzer is a doctoral candidate and teaching assistant in the Department of Political Science at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel. He holds a graduate degree from the University of Amsterdam and worked at the University of Victoria in the fall of 2015, conducting research for the Corporate Mapping Project. He has a passionate interest in elites, their resources, and their ideas (or the lack thereof). He is currently writing a dissertation on the ideological “void on the left” in the Low Countries.

Ian Hussey is a research manager at the University of Alberta’s Parkland Institute and a member of the steering committee of the SSHRC-funded Corporate Mapping Project. Before joining the Parkland Institute, Hussey worked for several international development organizations and was the co-founder and executive director of the Canadian Fair Trade Network. He holds an MA in sociology from the University of Victoria, and his PhD coursework and exams at York University focused on the sociology of colonialism and on political economy. His writing has appeared in the Globe and Mail, New Political Economy, the Edmonton Journal, the National Observer, and The Tyee.

Emma Jackson is an organizer with 350 Canada and Climate Justice Edmonton. Before joining 350 Canada, she worked with the Corporate Mapping Project as a research assistant at the Parkland Institute. She holds an Honours BA in geography from Mount Allison University and recently earned her MA in sociology from the University of Alberta.

Michael Lang is a PhD candidate in the Department of Sociology at the University of Victoria, where he also works as a research assistant with the Corporate Mapping Project. His academic interests lie with the politics and political economy of water and the environment more broadly. His SSHRC-supported doctoral research explores key historical moments in BC energy policy relating to hydroelectricity and shale gas development.

James Lawson is an associate professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Victoria, where he is also the director of the Human Dimensions of Climate Change program. He teaches and researches primarily in the areas of Canadian political economy, environmental politics, and the political economy of resource extraction.

Marc Lee is a senior economist with the BC Office of the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, where he has been based since 1998. For many years, he led the CCPA’s Climate Justice Project (CJP), which has published a wide range of research on fair and effective approaches to climate action that integrate principles of social justice,. As one of Canada’s leading progressive commentators on economic and social policy issues, he continues to write about climate and energy policy, as well as about strategies for affordable housing. Over the years, Lee has tracked federal and provincial budgets and economic trends and has published on a wide range of topics, from poverty and inequality to globalization and international trade to public services and regulation. He is past chair of the Progressive Economics Forum, a national network of heterodox economists.

Alicia Massie is a Joseph-Armand Bombardier doctoral scholar and a PhD candidate in the School of Communication at Simon Fraser University. She works as an educator, labour organizer, and community activist. In both her activism and academic work, she focuses on the intersections of gender, labour, and race in late capitalism, as well as investigating Canadian petro-capitalism from a socialist-feminist perspective.

Fiona MacPhail is a professor of economics at the University of Northern British Columbia. Her research program centres on inequalities, work, and public policy. As a member of the Corporate Mapping Project, she is interested in the political economy of fossil fuel projects, particularly in northern British Columbia.

Kevin McCartney is a PhD student in geography at the University of British Columbia. His work to date has focused on corporate power in climate denialist networks in Canada. His SSHRC-supported master’s research examined corporate influence in energy policy development through ENGO sponsorship. His doctoral work, also SSHRC-supported, engages energy workers and resource communities on issues of climate change, energy transition, justice, and dignity, with a focus on petro-cultures and extractive subjectivities. He lives and studies on unceded Musqueam territory.

Robert Neubauer is an assistant professor in the Department of Rhetoric, Writing, and Communications at the University of Winnipeg. His work explores environmental and energy politics through the overlapping lenses of political economy, media studies, and ideology critique. He is particularly interested in the role of discourse coalitions—networks of civil society, industry, and state actors jointly advocating shared policy agendas—in promoting populist discourse in Canadian energy politics. His current work uses content, discourse, and network analysis to chart the development of industry-backed, pro–fossil fuel “echo chambers” and alternative media ecosystems on social media. He received his PhD from the School of Communication at Simon Fraser University and is, by most accounts, a pretty decent cook.

Éric Pineault is a professor at the University of Québec in Montréal, where he teaches political economy in the Department of Sociology and ecological economics in the Environmental Sciences Institute. His current research focuses on the political economy of the ecological transition in Canada, as well as of the extractive sector in Canada and globally. A core team member of the Corporate Mapping Project, he is the author of Le piège Énergie Est (2016), a book that critically examines the proposed Energy East pipeline project.

Lise Rajewicz served as a researcher for the Corporate Mapping Project while she was a student at the University of Calgary, where she earned a BA in human geography. She has since worked in a variety of settings that reflect her commitment to environmental stewardship, climate change advocacy, and public education. She recently joined the Calgary office of Bluesource, where she is responsible for coordinating projects designed to reduce methane emissions.

James K. Rowe is an associate professor in the School of Environmental Studies at the University of Victoria. His interests lie with social movement strategy, which he approaches from the perspective of political economy and political ecology, with a particular focus on the roots of injustice. He is especially concerned with the role of existential fears and resentments in the creation of injustice and the concomitant need for social movements to develop strategies capable of addressing these fears.

Karena (Kara) Shaw teaches in the School of Environmental Studies at the University of Victoria. where she is also a member of the Institute for Integrated Energy Systems. A political theorist by training, she is particularly interested in the political dynamics of environmental and social change. Past research has engaged with feminist, Indigenous, and environmental politics, all of which are embedded in her current focus on the political ecology of energy transitions. This research explores how communities are simultaneously resisting and embracing diverse energy technologies and, in the process, how they are reshaping political, social, and ecological possibilities.

Zoë Yunker is a student at the University of British Columbia’s Graduate School of Journalism and a researcher and project coordinator with the Corporate Mapping Project. Her work focuses on issues of climate justice, Indigenous rights, energy politics, and the climate impacts of pension capital. She holds a master’s degree in sociology from the University of Victoria.