Upcoming seminar downtown

[Iain Marjoribanks]

Hey guys,

Anybody interested in attending this one?

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Date: Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 4:49 PM
Subject: Upcoming Lecture: Canadian Mining and the Universities Series - March 29
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A great lecture coming up: please forward widely!


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Subject: Upcoming Lecture: Canadian Mining and the Universities Series - March 29


Canadian Mining and the Universities Series Presents:

“Extracting Consent (or Enemies of the State?): Canadian Industry and Corporate (Dis) Possession”

Public Lecture: Dr. Anna Zalik, Faculty of Environmental Studies, York University
March 29 , 2012, at 7:30 p.m.
SFU Harbour Ctr, Room 7000



Over the past decade Canadian oil, gas and mining firms have become leading actors shaping Canada’s environmental and foreign policy, reputationally and otherwise. Social and ecological violations associated with industry activities and outright suppression of dissent has prompted considerable protest, both domestically and internationally. Attempts have been made to substantively regulate extractive industry formally and through civil disobedience. In part in response to public criticism, industry has sought consent for its operations through various corporate institutional sponsorships, notably at Canadian universities.

This presentation examines recent controversies surrounding Canadian oil, gas and mining industries here, in Latin America and West Africa. What are the implications of such industrial activity for the erosion of democracy?

Bio: Anna Zalik is Associate Professor in the Faculty of Environmental Studies at York University. Her work has examined corporate strategy through the merging of industrial security practice with social development interventions in strategic oil and gas exporters. Over the past decade she has conducted extended fieldwork in Canada, Mexico and Nigeria on this topic. Her current research projects include studies of the criminalization of protest in extractive sites, and the role of substantive transparency as related to the political economy of the oil and gas industry.

Anna teaches in the area of global environmental politics and critical development studies. Her research examines the political ecology and political economy of industrial extraction, with a focus on the merging of corporate security and social welfare interventions in strategic oil and gas exporters, particularly Nigeria, Mexico and Canada.

Recent publications include `Protest as Violence in Oilfields: The Contested Representation of Profiteering in Two Extractive Sites` in Feldman, Geisler and Menon Accumulating Insecurity (U. Georgia Press 2011) and `Shipping the Next Prize: The Trade in Liquefied Natural Gas from Nigeria and Mexico` in Sellers and Melling Dangerous Trade: Histories of Environmental Hazards across a Globalizing World (Temple 2011). From 2005-2007, she was a Ciriacy-Wantrup Postdoctoral Fellow in Natural Resources and Political Economy at the University of California at Berkeley.

Currently, Anna is engaged in two collaborative, funded research projects: The first examines environmental regulatory processes on Canadian oil and gas frontiers, and the second concerns substantive transparency and the oil and gas industry in the Gulf of Guinea.

This event is presented by Stephen Collis, SFU Department of English, and Co-sponsored by SFU Geography Dept. and UBC Geography, and The Institute for the Humanities, SFU