Publications by aesc members & UAlberta authors

Titles are listed in chronological order, with most recent at the top, as items are provided to the website administrators.

Laurie Adkin, “Petro-Universities and the Production of Knowledge for the Post-carbon Future.” In William K. Carroll, ed. Regime of Obstruction: How Corporate Power Blocks Energy Democracy. Edmonton: University of Athabasca Press, forthcoming in April 2021.

Laurie Adkin, Knowledge for an Ecologically Sustainable Future? Innovation Policy and Alberta Universities. Edmonton: Parkland Institute, June 2020.

Laurie Adkin, “The Limits to Capitalism,” presentation to the Studies in Political Economy symposium, October 2019, published as a blog in multiple venues, including: “Life on the Left,” “The Bullet,” “Presse-toi a Gauche,” et “A l’Encontre”. Link here to the SP Bullet reprint: https://socialistproject.ca/2020/01/the-limits-of-capitalism/

Laurie Adkin, “Technology Innovation as a Response to Climate Change:  The Case of the Climate Change Emissions Management Corporation of Alberta.” Review of Policy Research, published online July 5, 2019, https://doi.org/10.1111/ropr.12357  https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/ropr.12357 

Angele Alooke, Nichole Hill, Ian Hussey, Indigenous Gendered Experiences of Work in an Oil-Dependent, Rural Alberta Community is a mixed-methods study based on a series of extensive interviews with 16 Indigenous workers from the northern Alberta hamlet of Wabasca employed in a range of oilfield occupations (published February 2019 by the Parkland Institute).

Ian Urquhart, 2018. Costly Fix: Power, Politics, and Nature in the Tar Sands. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.

Laurie Adkin. 2017. “Crossroads in Alberta: Climate Capitalism or Ecological Democracy.” Socialist Studies 12, no. 1 (Spring): 2-31. https://socialiststudies.com/index.php/sss/article/view/27191 

Sheena Wilson, Adam Carlson, and Imre Szeman, eds., Petrocultures: Oil, Politics, Culture. Montreal; Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2017.  http://www.mqup.ca/petrocultures-products-9780773550384.php

Laurie E. Adkin, ed., First World Petro-Politics: The Political Ecology and Governance of Alberta. Toronto, ON: University of Toronto Press, 2016. http://www.utppublishing.com/First-World-Petro-Politics-The-Political-Ecology-and-Governance-of-Alberta.html

Sheena Wilson and Andrew Pendakis, eds.  IMAGINATIONS SPECIAL ISSUE  “Sighting Oil”  vol. 3, no. 2, November 2013.

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