Energy futures and present threats: critical infrastructure resilience, accumulation, and dispossession
@article{Dafnos2020EnergyFA, title={Energy futures and present threats: critical infrastructure resilience, accumulation, and dispossession}, author={Tia Dafnos}, journal={Studies in Political Economy}, year={2020}, volume={101}, pages={114 - 134} }
Abstract This article situates Canada’s national critical infrastructure security/resilience assemblage as encompassing pacification strategies that further accumulation and dispossession. It traces how specific practices enact preemptive anticipatory risk thinking in invoking an extractivist nation-state future and its threats, which are constituted as risks to be addressed in the present. In addition to criminalizing Indigenous land defenders and environmentalists, this assemblage generates… CONTINUE READING
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