Oil, Environmentalism and Conservative identity politics in Alberta, Western Canada.

我申请的是一门授课课程，但我对在加拿大西部，特别是阿尔伯塔省，进行石油与保守（和民粹主义）政治之间的交集的后期研究很感兴趣。在这个地区，石油在抵制加拿大中央集权方面发挥了重要作用，一些参与者甚至呼吁阿尔伯塔省和/或加拿大西部独立。这意味着我会考虑写一篇关于任何相关主题的论文，特别是自然资源开采，环境政治，新自由主义经济学的选举/政治影响，以及民粹主义和民族认同。关注来自北美各地的案例研究将是特别相关的，但是我也想将这个主题的方法与讨论类似主题和来自殖民世界的民族志数据时使用的方法进行比较，这样就不会不必要地偏袒欧洲中心主义的知识。

I am applying for a taught course, however I am interested in conducting research at a later stage into the intersectionbetween oil and conservative (and populist) politics in Western Canada, in particular in the province of Alberta. This is aplace where oil has played a major role in cementing resistance to Canadian centralization, with some actors going as faras to call for Alberta's and/or Western Canada's independence. This means I will consider writing a dissertation on anyrelated topic, including and especially natural resource extraction, environmental politics, the electoral/politicalimplications of neoliberal economics, as well as populism and national identity. Attention to case studies from acrossNorth America will be especially pertinent, however I would also like to compare approaches to this topic withapproaches used when discussing similar themes and ethnographic data from the colonized world, so as not tounnecessarily privilege eurocentric epistemes.