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

我申请的是一门授课课程，但我有兴趣在后期进行研究，研究加拿大西部，特别是阿尔伯塔省的石油和保守（和民粹主义）政治之间的交叉点。这是一个石油在巩固对加拿大中央集权的抵抗中发挥了重要作用的地方，一些行动者甚至呼吁阿尔伯塔和/或加拿大西部独立。这意味着我将考虑写一篇关于任何相关主题的论文，包括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，以及民粹主义和国家认同。对来自北美各地的案例研究的关注将是特别相关的，然而，我也想比较这个主题的方法与讨论类似主题时使用的方法和来自殖民地世界的人种学数据，以免不一定特权欧洲中心的认识。

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.