The New Nature of Things? Canada's Conservative Government and the Design of the New Environmental Subject

• Published in: Antipode Vol. 48; no. 2; pp. 453 - 473
• Main Authors: Peyton, Jonathan, Franks, Aaron
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford Blackwell Publishing Ltd 01.03.2016; Wiley Subscription Services, Inc
• Subjects: Articulation; Canada; certainty; Conservatism; Economic development; Environmental protection; environmental subject; Extraction; extractive economies; governance; Harper, Stephen; Natural environment; Power; Regulation; Resource management; territory; Canada

Since coming to power in 2006, Canada's government under Stephen Harper has worked to recalibrate federal regulatory, legislative and economic development frameworks as they overlap in the littoral zone of the environment. We argue that Harper's Conservative government is pursuing a totali...