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

Auteurs-es

  • Isaac Thornley

DOI :

https://doi.org/10.25071/g3adr829

Biographie de l'auteur-e

  • 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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2023-04-01

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