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Landlocked

Water, Energy, and Planetary Politics in Alberta


320 pages | 20 halftones | 6 x 9

Earth Sciences: Environment

Geography: Environmental Geography

History: Environmental History

Table of Contents

Introduction. One Hundred Atmospheres of Pressure: Landlocked Politics and Environmental Legitimacy
1. A State of the Earth: Geosciences and Planetary Politics
2. Private Land, Public Water: Crafting Colonial Environments
3. Provincializing Energy: State Geoscience and Fossil Economies
4. NASA of the North: From Bitumen Resource to Oil Reserve
5. Water for Life: Dam Resistance and the Disarming of Democracy
6. Accelerating Geology: Emergency Management and Scientific Controversy
7. A State of the Climate: Carbon Populism and Extraction from Future Atmospheres
Epilogue. Landlocked Legitimacy

Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index

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