10. Mobilizing to Address the Impacts of Oil Sands Development: First Nations in Environmental Governance

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Figures xi
4. Tables and Appendices xv
5. Preface xvii
6. Acknowledgments xxi
7. FIRST WORLD PETRO-POLITICS. The Political Ecology and Governance of Alberta 1
8. 1. Ecology and Governance in a First World Petro-State 3
9. 2. Fossil Capitalism and the Rentier State: Towards a Political Ecology of Alberta’s Oil Economy 51
10. 3. Alberta’s Neoliberal Environment 78
11. 4. The Ecological and Political Landscapes of Alberta’s Hydrocarbon Economy 114
12. 5. The Petro-Politics of Environmental Regulation in the Tar Sands 152
13. 6. Turning Up the Heat: Hegemonic Politics in a First World Petro-State 190
14. 7. The Alberta Oil/Tar Sands and Mainstream Media Framings between Globalization and Polarization 241
15. 8. The Gendered and Racialized Subjects of Alberta’s Oil Boomtown 263
16. 9. Constructing Participation in the Regulation of Alberta’s Sour Gas 297
17. 10. Mobilizing to Address the Impacts of Oil Sands Development: First Nations in Environmental Governance 329
18. 11. Duty to Consult or Licence to Operate? Corporate Social Practice and Industrial Conflict in the Alberta Tar Sands and the Nigerian Niger Delta 356
19. 12. ‘All Against the Haul’: The Long Road to the Athabasca Tar Sands 385
20. 13. In the Path of the Pipeline: Environmental Citizenship, Aboriginal Rights, and the Northern Gateway Pipeline Review 417
21. 14. Social Movements Scaling Up: Strategies and Opportunities in Opposing the Oil Sands Status Quo 456
22. 15. Alberta’s Electricity Future 499
23. 16. Alberta, Fossil Capitalism, and the Political Ecology of Change 527
24. 17. Democracy and the Albertan Petro-State 561
25. Contributors 601
26. Index 605