“Standing Up for Canadian Oil & Gas Families”: Tracing Gender, Family, and Work In the Alberta Petro-economy

Drawing on the social media content of four pro-oil Facebook groups, we argue that these ‘subsidized publics’ play an increasingly critical role in facilitating oil and gas companies’ continued accumulation of fossil capital. We adopt O’Shaughnessy and Krogman’s (2011) analytical framework to revea...

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Main Authors: Alicia Massie, Emma Jackson
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Toronto Libraries 2020-02-01
Series:MediaTropes
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Online Access:https://mediatropes.com/index.php/Mediatropes/article/view/33669