Topics in Comparative Politics

Readings

• Klein, Seth. 2020. A Good War: Mobilizing Canada for the Climate Emergency. Toronto: ECW Press. Paperback is $25.00
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• Alook, A., E. Eaton, D. Gray-Donald, J. Laforest, C. Lameman, & B. Tucker. 2023. The End of This World: Climate Justice in So-Called Canada. Toronto: Between the Lines. $25.95 from the publisher
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• Calverley, Dan and Kevin Anderson 2022. [“net zero”] What’s in a name? 23 August. [supplementary bibliography “Fossil Capitalism” available on e-class]
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• Adkin, Laurie E. 2017. “Crossroads in Alberta: Climate Capitalism or Ecological Democracy?” Socialist Studies vol. 12, no. 1 (Spring), 2-31
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• Carroll, William K., Shannon Daub, & Shane Gunster. 2022. Regime of obstruction: fossil capitalism and the many facets of climate denial in Canada, 216-233. In David Tindall, Mark C. J. Stoddart, and Riley E. Dunlap eds. Handbook of Anti-Environmentalism, pp. 216
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• Lamb, W., Mattioli, G., Levi, S., Roberts, J., Capstick, S., Creutzig, F., . . . Steinberger, J. 2020. Discourses of climate delay. Global Sustainability, 3, E17. [on e-class]
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• Hickel, Jason. 2022. A new political economy for a healthy planet. In Reimaging the Human- Environmental Relationship for Stockholm+50. United Nations University, Centre for Policy Research. May. http://collections.unu.edu/eserv/UNU:8832/UNUUNEP_Hickel_RHER.pdf ↗
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• Paulson, Susan, Giacomo D’Alisa, Federico Demaria, and Giorgos Kallis with Feminisms and Degrowth Alliance. 2020. From pandemic toward care-full degrowth. Interface: a journal for and about social movements. April. [6 pp]
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• Perkins, Patricia. 2019. Climate justice, commons, and degrowth. Ecological Economics 160, pp. 183-190. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolecon.2019.02.005 ↗
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• Corntassel, Jeff. 2012. Re-envisioning resurgence: Indigenous pathways to decolonization and sustainable self-determination. Decolonization: Indigeneity, Education & Society 1 (1): 86-101. Indigenous Environmental Network. n.d. “Indigenous principles of just transition.” [supplementary bibliography “Hopeful Futures” available on e-class]
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• Corkal, V. and E. Beedell. 2022. Making good green jobs the law. Winnipeg: IISD, January. [35 pp.] David Suzuki Foundation. 2020. Talking Transition: Shaping Canada’s clean power pathways. By James Glave /Glave Strategies for the David Suzuki Foundation. [16 pp.]
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• Klein, Seth. “Remaking the economy, then and now.” Ch. 6 in A Good War, 143-205
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• Klein, Seth. “Paying for mobilization, then and now.” Ch. 8 in A Good War, 243-264
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• Wale, Janna. 2023. “Bad Forecast: The Illusion of Indigenous Inclusion and Representation in Climate Adaptation Plans in Canada.” Yellowhead Institute Special Report, May. [9 pp.]
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• Klein, Seth. “A climate mobilization plan for Canada: bringing it all together.” In A Good War, 365-372, and « Epilogue, » pp. 375-381. L’Institut de l’énergie Trottier. (2017). « Le climat, l’état, et nous. » Declaration of organisations and experts addressed to the Government of Quebec. In English here: https://iet.polymtl.ca/en/climat-etat-nous/ [1 p.] ↗
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• Klein, Seth. “Indigenous leadership.” Ch. 9 in A Good War, 267-292
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• Reed, G., N. Brunet, D. McGregor, C. Scurr, T. Sadik, J. Lavigne, and S. Longboat. 2022. “Toward Indigenous visions of nature-based solutions: an exploration into Canadian federal climate policy.” Climate Policy vol. 22, no. 4, pp. 514-533
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• Swampy, Dale. 2022. Testimony before the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Natural
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• Carroll, W. K. 2021. Canada’s Fossil-Capital Elite: a tangled web of corporate power. Ch. 5 in William K. Carroll, ed. Regime of Obstruction: How Corporate Power Blocks Energy Democracy. Edmonton: Athabasca University Press. [open access to e-book through the publisher]
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• Dordi, T., O. Weber, E. Rhodes, & M. McPherson. 2023. “A voice for change ? Capital markets as a key leverage point in Canada’s fossil fuel industry.” Energy Research & Social Science 103 (September),
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• Evidently, this is a very broad category of actors. It includes “intellectuals” like academics who are positioned right across the policy spectrum, working in association with think-tanks, research institutes, post-secondary education institutions, and social movement organizations. The readings in this set include interventions by ENGOs, academics, and labour organizations
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• CAN-RAC et al. 2022. Brief submitted jointly by Climate Action Network Canada - Réseau action climat Canada (CAN-RAC), Shift: Action for Pension Wealth & Planet Health, West Coast Environmental Law Association, International Institute for Sustainable Development,
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• What are the right directions for green transformation in Canada? [This class may be held by Zoom, depending on the availability of guests.]
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• Klein, Seth. (2021). “Ready to rally: marshalling public opinion, then and now.” Ch. 3 in A Good War, pp. 59-97. Alook et al., ch. 7 (pp. 153-176)
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