Dismantling dependency, disarming a boom: petro-politics and the staples state in an era of climate crisis

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dc.contributor.authorNoble, Paul
dc.contributor.supervisorLawson, James Charles Barkley
dc.date.accessioned2015-04-29T15:53:02Z
dc.date.available2015-04-29T15:53:02Z
dc.date.copyright2015en_US
dc.date.issued2015-04-29
dc.degree.departmentDepartment of Political Science
dc.degree.levelMaster of Arts M.A.en_US
dc.description.abstractThis thesis has two central objectives. First, drawing on both the insights contained in the staples approach and the frames and narratives mobilized by contemporary political actors, it attempts to provide insight into the political-economic drivers underpinning the large and growing political influence of the Canadian oil sands. Second, it assesses the effects of this influence on Canadian society and the Canadian state. This influence is observable materially, as with the federal government’s oil sands-oriented policy changes and mobilization of the state security apparatus in its defense, and in less concrete ways, as with the rise of discourses conflating national interest with continued oil sands expansion. This thesis concludes that the effects of this influence have been negative and profound, and in an era of climate crisis, alternatives to Canada’s dominant political economic trends must be urgently sought.en_US
dc.description.proquestemailpaulnoblegreen@gmail.comen_US
dc.description.scholarlevelGraduateen_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1828/6054
dc.languageEnglisheng
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.rightsAvailable to the World Wide Weben_US
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.5/ca/*
dc.subjectCanadaen_US
dc.subjectCanadian Political Economyen_US
dc.subjectBitumenen_US
dc.subjectOil sandsen_US
dc.subjectTar sandsen_US
dc.subjectPipelineen_US
dc.subjectStaplesen_US
dc.titleDismantling dependency, disarming a boom: petro-politics and the staples state in an era of climate crisisen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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