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

我正在申请一门讲授课程，但我有兴趣在以后阶段对加拿大西部，特别是艾伯塔省的石油与保守(和民粹主义)政治之间的交叉进行研究。在这个地方，石油在巩固对加拿大中央集权的抵抗方面发挥了重要作用，一些参与者甚至呼吁艾伯塔省和/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。对北美各地的案例研究的关注将特别相关，但我也想将对这一主题的方法与讨论类似主题和来自殖民世界的人种学数据时使用的方法进行比较，以免不必要地优先考虑欧洲中心主义认识论。

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.