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Assembling Consent in Alberta: Hegemony and the Tar Sands

Part I: Tar Sands Expansionism

From: A Line in the Tar Sands

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In Chapter 2 Randolph Haluza-DeLay summarizes some of the key methods used to represent the tar sands and build public consent, to the continuing destruction they cause. Topics include public consent, the capital-state partnership, Alberta’s economy and politics, hegemonic representations of the tar sands, and the Northern Gateway and Keystone XL pipelines.

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Randolph Haluza-Delay

Randolph Haluza-DeLay is an Associate Professor of Sociology at King’s University College in Edmonton. He teaches and has published widely in sociology, environmental education, geography, and leisure studies, and co-edited How the World’s Religions are Responding to Climate Change: Social Scientific Investigations (Routledge).