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The Fairytale Continues Abroad: Learning from Norwegian Oil?
April 17, 2014 at 2:30 PM to 4:30 PM
| Location: | 2203 Dunton Tower |
| Cost: | Free |
| Key Contact: | Laura MacDonald |
| Contact Email: | laura.macdonald@carleton.ca |
| Contact Phone: | 613-520-2600 x 8858 |
Over the last decade, Norway has become known not only as a good governance example for oil and gas management, but as the 鈥渇airytale鈥� country that escaped the resource curse. In this lecture, aims to reveal both the truth and the fiction of these now-widespread ideas. As such, he will explore the foundations and development of the , and will reveal the contentious reality of both the industry鈥檚 and the country鈥檚 development, the necessary influence of organized labour and civil society, and the gradual move to a neoliberal economic model of exponential growth and extraction.
This event is sponsored by the SSHRC-supported聽Canada-Europe Transatlantic Dialogue and the聽Latin American and Caribbean Studies Research Group,聽in collaboration with the Centre for European Studies at 杏吧原创 University.