BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Centre for Climate Justice//NONSGML Events//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://climatejustice.ubc.ca/events/event/ X-WR-CALDESC:Centre for Climate Justice - Events BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20240223T0130Z-1708651850.706-EO-16320-45@10.19.146.1 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20260719T210605Z CREATED:20240222T173041Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240222T181015Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20240313T123000 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20240313T133000 SUMMARY: Jurisdiction and the Trans Mountain Pipeline: A study of the co-co nstitution of public and private power in Canada DESCRIPTION: Shiri will present current work on the TransMountain Pipeline arguing that\, despite the association of socialism with state nationalizat ion\, Canada’s bid to buy the Trans Mountain pipeline was less a move to re distribute a private resource to the public sphere\, and more a bid to unde rwrite capital with public funds. Tienhaaara and Walker have called […] X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

Shiri will present current work on the Tra nsMountain Pipeline arguing that\, despite the association of socialism wit h state nationalization\, Canada’s bid to buy the Trans Mountain pipeline w as less a move to redistribute a private resource to the public sphere\, an d more a bid to underwrite capital with public funds. Tienhaaara and Walker have called this gamble “neo-liberal nationalization.” In addition to fina ncial resources\, though\, Canada was also able to de-risk the pipeline via ownership because it shifted corporate governance to the federal governmen t\, usurping provincial jurisdiction\, and controlling Indigenous assertion s of territorial authority.

By renegotiating the political and financ ial jurisdiction governing the Trans Mountain pipeline\, Canada worked to r esolve tensions between its infrastructural power and the mobile capital of corporations\, which can pick and choose which national infrastructure to access. These logics are often understood as opposite forces of power that animate the world system of accumulation. Therefore\, the Trans Mountain pi peline gives us a golden opportunity to examine the way companies and state s threaten each other’s power within an interdependent relationship. But al so how these tensions are resolved through negotiations over the line demar cating public and private spheres.

Speaker: Shiri Pa sternak

Shiri PasternakShiri Pasternak is an Associate Professor in Criminology at Toronto Metropolitan University in Toronto. She holds a PhD in Planning and Geography from the University of Toronto. She is the author of the awa rd-winning book Grounded Authority: the Algonquins of Barriere Lake Against the State (University of Minnesota Press\, 2017)\, which is about the Algo nquins' rejection of the federal land claim policy from the perspective of Indigenous law and jurisdiction. She is the co-founder and former Research Director for the Yellowhead Institute\, an Indigenous-led think tank based in the Faculty of Arts at Toronto Metropolitan University.

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