Regime of Obstruction makes visible complex connections between corporate power and the extraction and use of carbon energy. Anchored in sociological and political theory, this volume provides hard data and empirical research that traces the power and influence of the fossil fuel industry through economics, politics, media, and higher education.

William K. Carroll is a critical sociologist with research interests in the political economy/ecology of corporate capitalism, social movements and social change, and critical social theory and method. He is the co-director of “Mapping the power of the carbon-extractive corporate resource sector,” a SSHRC-funded partnership of several universities and civil-society organizations.William K. Carroll is a critical sociologist with research interests in the political economy/ecology of corporate capitalism, social movements and social change, and critical social theory and method. He is the co-director of “Mapping the power of the carbon-extractive corporate resource sector,” a SSHRC-funded partnership of several universities and civil-society organizations.