Liam Fox

PhD Candidate (he/him)

Campus

Fields of Study

Areas of Interest

Energy transitions and climate justice; settler capitalism; extractive work cultures; populism

Supervisor(s)

Deborah Cowen and Scott Prudham

Biography

I'm broadly interested in energy-extractive labour geographies, especially in Canada. In my current project, I try to explain and situate the reasons some energy workers in Alberta do not support - and in some cases are actively organized against - Just Transition and fossil fuel wind-down policies. Empirically, I look at the ways colonial categories of race and gender have shaped the formation of the extractive working class in labour struggles in the central Alberta region, and how they have engendered an attachment to extractive culture that endures in the present.

Publications

Fox, Liam. “Pipelines in the ‘Public Interest’? The Jurisdictional Work of a Concept in Canadian Pipeline Assessment.” Antipode 54, no. 5 (2022): 22. https://doi.org/10.1111/anti.12848.

Fox, Liam. “Pollution Is Colonialism (Book Review).” Social & Cultural Geography, September 7, 2021, 1–2. https://doi.org/10.1080/14649365.2021.1976909.

Education

MA Simon Fraser University 2019
BA Hons University of Toronto 2017

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