Event Date: February 16, 2017 - 12:30pm to 2:00pm
Location: FSS 5028, 120 University Private

Presented by CIPS and the International Political Economy Network

Click here to read William Carroll’s presentation slides

In an era of deepening climate crisis, Dr. William Carroll will discuss a research partnership mapping the various modalities through which carbon-sector corporations exert economic, cultural, and political power and the popular resistance that meets it at various flashpoints along the way. The oligarchic structure of corporate power presents great challenges to those striving for a just transition to energy democracy. The research focuses on corporations based in Canada, but situates them within transnational networks of ownership, governance, and commodity-chaining.

William Carroll has been a professor of Sociology at the University of Victoria since 1981. He helped to establish the Interdisciplinary Program in Social Justice Studies there in 2008 and served as its director until 2012. He recently completed a global-sociological study, Alternative policy groups and global civil society: Networks, discourses and practices of counter-hegemony, a community-engaged initiative in knowledge co-creation through participatory field research, among other research methods. His current project is a 6-year SSHRC partnership of five universities and five civil-society organizations: Mapping the power of the carbon-extractive corporate resource sector.

Carroll’s books include Expose, Oppose, Propose: Alternative Policy Groups and the Struggle for Global Justice, A World to Win: Contemporary Social Movements and Counter-Hegemony (with Kanchan Sarker), The Making of a Transnational Capitalist Class, Corporate Power in a Globalizing World, Remaking Media (with Bob Hackett), Critical Strategies for Social Research, Challenges and Perils: Social Democracy in Neoliberal Times (with R.S. Ratner), and Organizing Dissent.