TMX and the crisis of consent: Cracks in Canada’s settler-colonial political order

Authors

  • Isaac Thornley

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.25071/g3adr829

Author Biography

  • Isaac Thornley

    Isaac Thornley is a PhD candidate in the Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change at York University. His research draws on political ecology and psychoanalytic Marxist theories of ideology to analyze contemporary political conflicts surrounding fossil fuel pipelines in Canada (in particular, the Trans Mountain Expansion).

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Published

2023-04-01

How to Cite

TMX and the crisis of consent: Cracks in Canada’s settler-colonial political order. (2023). Canada Watch. https://doi.org/10.25071/g3adr829