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

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1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgements ix
4. Introduction 1
5. Part I The Organization of Fossil Capital
6. 1 Boom, Bust, and Consolidation: Corporate Restructuring in the Alberta Oil Sands 35
7. 2 Lines of Work, Corridors of Power: Extraction, Obstruction, and Counter-obstruction Along Fossil Fuel Production Networks 61
8. 3 Landscapes of Risk: Financial Representations of Catastrophe 91
9. 4 Who Owns Big Carbon? Mapping the Network of Corporate Ownership 111
10. 5 Canada’s Fossil-Capital Elite: A Tangled Web of Corporate Power 143
11. Part II The Struggle for Hearts and Minds
12. 6 Fossil Capital’s Reach into Civil Society: The Architecture of Climate Change Denialism 171
13. 7 “Our Oil” Extractive Populism in Canadian Social Media 197
14. 8 Episodes in the New Climate Denialism 225
15. 9 “Doing Things Better Together” Industry Capture of Climate Policy in British Columbi 249
16. 10 Petro-Universities and the Production of Knowledge for the Post-carbon Future 273
17. 11 The Oil Industry Is Us: Hegemonic Community Economic Identity in Saskatchewan’s Oil Patch 307
18. 12 Indigenous Gendered Experiences of Work in an Oil-Dependent, Rural Alberta Community 331
19. 13 Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Canada’s Carbon Economy and Indigenous Ambivalence 355
20. Part III Resistance and Beyond
21. 14 From Clean Growth to Climate Justice 377
22. 15 Flashpoints of Possibility: What Resistance Reveals About Pathways Toward Energy Transition 399
23. 16 Toward a Typology of Fossil Fuel Flashpoints: The Potential for Coalition Building 429
24. 17 Fossil Fuel Divestment, Non-reformist Reforms, and Anti-capitalist Strategy 453
25. 18 Conclusion: Prospects for Energy Democracy in the Face of Passive Revolution 479
26. Contributors 505