The Networked Infrastructure of Fossil Capitalism: Implications of the New Pipeline Debates for Environmental Justice in Canada

Scott, Dayna Nadine

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“…Curiously, frontier natural resource extraction has received relatively little attention in theoretical work on the spatial fix (Zalik, 2015(Zalik, : 2451, perhaps because it is such an obvious and, therefore, seemingly uninteresting example. Yet, a few exceptions do exist, such as work by Zalik (2015), Barry (2013) and Scott (2013). Such scholars argue that oil and gas infrastructure, like pipelines, exemplify a spatial fix in response to the first contradiction of capitalism -capital's inherent tendency towards underconsumption or overproduction.…”

Section: The Spatial Fixmentioning

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Fixing extraction through conservation: On crises, fixes and the production of shared value and threat

Enns

Bersaglio

Sneyd

2019

Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space

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We are currently witnessing a global trend of intensifying and deepening relationships between extractive companies and biodiversity conservation organisations that warrants closer scrutiny. Although existing literature has established that these two sectors often share the same space and rely on similar logics, it is increasingly common to find biodiversity conservation being carried out through partnerships between extractive and conservation actors. In this article, we explore what this cooperation achieves for both sectors. Using illustrative examples of extractive-conservation collaboration across sub-Saharan Africa, we argue that new entanglements between extractive and conservation actors are motivated by multiple purposes. First, partnering with conservation actors serves as a spatial and socio-ecological fix for extractive companies in response to multiple crises that threaten the sector's productivity. Second, new forms of collaboration between extractive and conservation actors create pathways for both sectors to produce new value from nature. For the extractive sector, creating new value from nature works as a further fix to capitalist crises whereas, for the conservation sector, producing value through nature amounts to new opportunities for capital accumulation. Importantly, working together to produce shared value from nature within and beyond extractive concessions secures both sectors' control over the means of production. Theoretically, our analysis links literature on value in capitalist nature with that on spatial and socio-ecological fixes.

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Section: The Spatial Fixmentioning

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Fixing extraction through conservation: On crises, fixes and the production of shared value and threat

Enns

Bersaglio

Sneyd

2019

Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space

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“…In a metabolic analysis, infrastructures, such as the 'end' of a pipeline, are thereby conceived of as systems in which labour processes convert raw materials (crude oil, gas or bitumen), energy and labour, into commodities (gasoline, liquefied gas, petrochemicals) and into waste (especially water and atmospheric pollution) (Scott 2013). While emphasis is often placed on the complex networks of circulatory systems within urban environments or "socio-natures," the urbanization process extends beyond the city's (indeed also the nation state's) political borders (Ghosn 2010;Swyngedouw 2006).…”

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Forces of Production, Climate Change and Canadian Fossil Capitalism

Graham¹

2021

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The dissertation reinterprets the concept of forces of production through an ecological lens and analyzes the fettering of "green productive forces" in the context of the deepening climate crisis. In contrast to more established interpretations, I define forces of production broadly as the practices, processes, relations and objects through which we are purposefully linked to and transform the rest of nature. I demonstrate the basis for this interpretation in Marx's own work and develop its implication through contemporary scholarship. In present circumstances, it allows us to see that ecological knowledge itself, as well as associated developments in renewable energy technology and green infrastructure, represent advancements in productive forces. However, I argue that such green productive forces are today fettered by capitalist relations of production. The second portion of the dissertation analyzes this process through case studies focusing on Canadian fossil capitalism. In this context, I examine the deepening of fossil-fuelled productive forces and simultaneous blockages in the development and productive utilization of renewable energy and ecological knowledge. This includes a focus on carbon capital's strategic efforts to colonize such productive forces and fashion them in a manner that is consonant with the accumulation strategies and power relations permeating fossil capitalism.

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“…Given reconciliation projects from both above and below, however, it seems likely that critical race approaches to reconciliation will complete the loop from activism and academic publishing to post-secondary classrooms and even "black letter" law classes (Lawrence & Dua, 2005). There will undoubtedly be a certain violence to this translation and transplanting process, seen for example in the adoption and appropriation of community terms by the government, its ministries, and extractive industries (e.g., Government of Canada, 2019; Government of British Columbia, n.d.; Scott, 2013). While approaches characterized by respect and good allyship or guest relations will, I hope, balance out some of these translation costs (Koleszar-Green, 2018), it is clear that state and corporate interests actively and cooperatively work against this solidarity movement to maintain Canada's current settler-colonial, capitalist order.…”

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Reflections on Teaching Critical Migration Law in a Settler-colonial Context (Dispatch)

Bhatia¹

2021

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The Networked Infrastructure of Fossil Capitalism: Implications of the New Pipeline Debates for Environmental Justice in Canada

Cited by 23 publications

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Fixing extraction through conservation: On crises, fixes and the production of shared value and threat

Fixing extraction through conservation: On crises, fixes and the production of shared value and threat

Forces of Production, Climate Change and Canadian Fossil Capitalism

Reflections on Teaching Critical Migration Law in a Settler-colonial Context (Dispatch)

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