Amy Janzwood's book is published:听 (UBC, November 2025).
In the late 2000s, when the oil sands industry proposed expanding its capacity to transport fossil fuel products, an unprecedented coalition of Indigenous nations and communities, environmental non-governmental organizations, grassroots groups, and municipal governments mobilized in response.听Mega Pipelines, Mega Resistance听explores how these social movements challenged powerful corporate and government interests and reshaped the politics of energy infrastructure.
Amy Janzwood investigates campaign coalitions that were formed to oppose two mega pipeline projects: the expansion of Trans Mountain, which was ultimately completed; and Northern Gateway, which was never built. Drawing on a wide array of documents and in-depth insider interviews with oil executives, senior government officials, coalition organizers, and lawyers, she analyzes the strategic alliances and tactics that have empowered 鈥� and attempted to thwart 鈥� these movements. The campaigns effectively adapted their strategies to shifting legal, political, and economic conditions, maximizing their impact and wielding influence in ways that cannot be explained by political decisions or economic factors alone.
Mega Pipelines, Mega Resistance听is an ambitious study that underscores the power of campaign coalitions to sustain resistance, influence government policy, and shape industry decisions.
Beyond audiences of scholars and students of comparative and Canadian environmental and energy politics and policy,听Mega Pipelines, Mega Resistance听will appeal to policy-makers and activists interested in energy infrastructure and transitions, as well as in social movements.
Yann Allard-Tremblay's book is published: 听(Oxford, October 2025).
As some settler states set out on the difficult and highly contested political project of reconciliation--seeking a legitimate way of living and sharing the land among the Indigenous peoples, settlers, and others who now call these places home--it is important to evaluate the reality which will shape the path forward. In听Disjunctures, Yann Allard-Tremblay argues that, even given the variations within Indigenous and Euro-modern political traditions, the two are fundamentally too different to offer any theoretical or practical political options for a middle ground. Allard-Tremblay terms these irreconcilable and inconsistent paths toward reconciliation听disjunctures. While dominant Euro-modern political structures are modeled on justice, sovereign autonomy, and non-reciprocal and non-responsive governance, Indigenous traditions emphasize harmony and are non-hierarchical, non-coercive, and responsive to other humans, other-than-humans, and ecological contexts. These disjunctures do not make reconciliation impossible, but reveal that reconciliation can only be achieved by undertaking a deep transformation of dominant political structures and identities, and ways of being, doing, and knowing. Because Indigenous politics provide vital alternatives to oppressive and ecologically destructive relationships, Allard-Tremblay makes the case for a redirection of political theory and conduct toward Indigenous systems and decolonization.
Maria Popova and听Oxana Shevel's听book is published:听听(polity, January 2024).
In February 2022, Russian missiles rained on Ukrainian cities, and tanks rolled towards Kyiv to end Ukrainian independent statehood. President Zelensky declined a Western evacuation offer and Ukrainians rallied to defend their country. What are the roots of this war, which has upended the international legal order and brought back the spectre of nuclear escalation? How did these supposedly 鈥渂rotherly peoples鈥� become each other鈥檚 worst nightmare?
In听Russia and Ukraine: Entangled Histories, Diverging States, Maria Popova and Oxana Shevel explain how since 1991 Russia and Ukraine diverged politically, ending up on a collision course. Russia slid back into authoritarianism and imperialism, while Ukraine consolidated a competitive political system and pro-European identity. As Ukraine built a democratic nation-state, Russia refused to accept it and came to see it as an 鈥渁nti-Russia鈥� project. After political and economic pressure proved ineffective, and even counterproductive, Putin went to war to force Ukraine back into the fold of the 鈥淩ussian world.鈥� Ukraine resisted, determined to pursue European integration as a sovereign state. These irreconcilable goals, rather than geopolitical wrangling between Russia and the West over NATO expansion, are 鈥� the authors argue 鈥� essential to understanding Russia鈥檚 war on Ukraine.
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