Landlocked

A study of oil-rich Alberta reveals the entwined relationships among geoscience, governance, and power. The Canadian province of Alberta holds the worlds fourth-largest reserve of fossil fuels, with oil sands famous for bitumen, a viscous form of petroleum. A critical testing ground for international environmental ideas and energy policies, Alberta pioneered state-led efforts to understand, extract, and sell bitumen. Without natural access to ocean ports, Alberta must negotiate pipeline routes with neighboring provinces and nations to reach global markets. But Alberta is also landlocked in another sense: it is caught in an extractive relationship with oil-rich earth. In Landlocked, Jeremy J. Schmidt focuses on Albertas energy industry, particularly its use of water and oil, to argue for a new way of understanding how political authority is forged and maintained through the environment. Schmidt details how water and oil were enrolled in early state-making projects, such as irrigation, and examines the consequences of Albertas efforts to extract value from land, including a series of events in 2013 that released 4.2 million barrels of bitumen into underground environments. By uncovering the ways that geosciences supported activitiesfrom land settlement to the dispossession of Indigenous peoplesthat produced environmental policies and approaches to management and governance, he shows that they arent merely instruments of state power but central to Albertas political identity and legitimacy.

Autor:
Jeremy J. Schmidt)

Características técnicas:

• Tamaño cerrado 152 x 229 mm
• 328 páginas interiores
• Tapa rústica
• Encuadernación lomo cuadrado

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