Topics in Public Policy

Klein, Seth. 2020. A Good War: Mobilizing Canada for the Climate Emergency. Toronto: ECW Press. Paperback is $25.00

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

Calverley, Dan and Kevin Anderson 2022. [“net zero”] What’s in a name? 23 August. [supplementary bibliography “Fossil Capitalism” available on e-class]

Adkin, Laurie E. (2017). “Crossroads in Alberta: Climate Capitalism or Ecological Democracy?” Socialist Studies vol. 12, no. 1 (Spring), 2-31

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

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]

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]

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]

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.]

Klein, Seth. (2021). “Remaking the economy, then and now.” Ch. 6 in A Good War, 143-205

Klein, Seth. (2021). “Paying for mobilization, then and now.” Ch. 8 in A Good War, 243-264

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.]

Klein, Seth. “Indigenous leadership.” Ch. 9 in A Good War, 267-292

Capitalism, Nature, Socialism 32 (4) (March): 111-129. [on e-class]

Pineault, Eric. (2018). “The Capitalist Pressure to Extract: The Ecological and Political Economy of Extreme Oil in Canada.” Studies in Political Economy 99, no. 2. [on e-class] [supplementary bibliography “Climate Policy in Canada” available on e-class]

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

Swampy, Dale. 2022. Testimony before the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Natural

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]

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),

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

What are the right directions for green transformation in Canada? [This class may be held by Zoom, depending on the availability of guests.]

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)

Seth Klein, A Good War: Mobilizing Canada for the Climate Emergency (Toronto: ECW Press) has been ordered for the Campus Bookstore. The paperback is $25.00

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] [supplementary bibliographies “Climate Science,” “Climate Capitalism,” and “Obstruction, Denial, Delay” available on e-class]

Corntassel, Jeff. 2012. Re-envisioning resurgence: Indigenous pathways to decolonization and sustainable self-determination. Decolonization: Indigeneity, Education & Society 1 (1): 86

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] [on e-class] 7

Perkins, Patricia. 2019. Climate justice, commons, and degrowth. Ecological Economics 160, pp. 183-190

Lee, Marc. (2021). From clean growth to climate justice. Ch. 14 in William K. Carroll (ed.), Regime of Obstruction: How Corporate Power Blocks Energy Democracy. Edmonton: Athabasca University Press. [additional readings available in the “Hopeful Futures” bibliography] 8

Klein, Seth. (2021). Remaking the economy, then and now. Ch. 6 in A Good War, 143-205

Klein, Seth. (2021). Paying for mobilization, then and now. Ch. 8 in A Good War, 243-264

Klein, Seth. (2021). Indigenous leadership. Ch. 9 in A Good War, 267-292

MacNeil, Robert. (2021). On the immorality and futility of Canadian climate policy under Trudeau. Capitalism, Nature, Socialism 32 (4) (March): 111-129. [on e-class]

Pineault, Eric. (2018). “The Capitalist Pressure to Extract: The Ecological and Political Economy of Extreme Oil in Canada.” Studies in Political Economy 99, no. 2. [on e-class] [supplementary bibliography “Climate Policy in Canada” available on e-class]

Olszynski, Martin. 2022. Brief to the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Natural Resources, Study of Proposed Government Cap on the Greenhouse Gas Emissions of the Oil and Gas

Reed, Graeme, Nicolas Brunet, Deborah McGregor, Curtis Scurr, Tonio Sadik, Jamie Lavigne, and Sheri 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

Swampy, Dale. 2022. Testimony before the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Natural

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

Klein, Seth. (2021). Ready to rally: marshalling public opinion, then and now. Ch. 3 in A Good War, pp. 59-97