Pipeline Politics: Capitalism, Extractivism, and Resistance in Canada

摘要: Economic and political pressures to extract Canada’s oil sands—among the most carbon-intensive polluting fossil fuels on planet—have increased manifold, while heightened risks of toxic spills, climate change, environmental degradation from fuel use production have solicited intense public concern. Yet, influenced by neoliberalism, solutions crises are often swept aside in favor market-based approaches economic social organization. In face such depoliticizing trends, an model that makes life Earth increasingly precarious, a loose network organizations citizens took action against pipelines response “failure institutional representation” (Dufour et al., 2015: 127). This movement—dubbed anti-fossil or anti-pipeline movement (Klein, 2014)—sought challenge dominant cultures politics fossil-fueled capitalism initiate conversation about building governing differently socio-ecologically precarious world. For reason, resistance specific infrastructure project, Energy East pipeline Canada, presents opportunity unpack how claims for post-carbon society enacted formulated. Drawing primarily reviews science literature risk, capitalism, politics, as well discourse analysis in-depth interviews with key actors, thesis aims explore problematize capitalist contemporary problems. It argues carves out space imaginary future beyond petroleum—and perhaps even modern itself.