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