Ending Big Oil: Nationalising the Fossil Fuel Industry for a Just Transition in Norway
(2024) HEKM51 20241Department of Human Geography
Human Ecology
- Abstract
- Ecosocialist theorists increasingly call for nationalisation programmes to nationalise fossil fuel industry giants in order to orchestrate a just transition on a timetable compatible with pulling the emergency brake on climate collapse. Yet few such programmes exist. Synthesising utopian- and eco-socialist theoretical frameworks, this thesis uses class conflict informed participatory backcasting to broadly sketch the background conditions and ensuing potential policy pathways forward to achieve such a transition in Norway. Two initial pathways are located; a comprehensive but slow act of parliament pathway, and a shallow but rapid corporate restructuring pathway. A third pathway combining the fast-acting extraction bans of the second... (More)
- Ecosocialist theorists increasingly call for nationalisation programmes to nationalise fossil fuel industry giants in order to orchestrate a just transition on a timetable compatible with pulling the emergency brake on climate collapse. Yet few such programmes exist. Synthesising utopian- and eco-socialist theoretical frameworks, this thesis uses class conflict informed participatory backcasting to broadly sketch the background conditions and ensuing potential policy pathways forward to achieve such a transition in Norway. Two initial pathways are located; a comprehensive but slow act of parliament pathway, and a shallow but rapid corporate restructuring pathway. A third pathway combining the fast-acting extraction bans of the second pathway with the comprehensive nationalisation and just transition procedures of the first is proposed. Placing such a pathway into the context of current forecasts for Norway’s fossil future, it appears that whilst the backcasted nationalisation pathway is built on a semi-utopian framework, its realisation requires less magical thinking than reaching the expressed goals of the current Norwegian fossil fuel industry governance through current profit-driven ownership and governance structures. (Less)
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- author
- Dignan, Keira Melanie LU
- supervisor
- organization
- course
- HEKM51 20241
- year
- 2024
- type
- H2 - Master's Degree (Two Years)
- subject
- keywords
- Norway, fossil fuels, oil, gas, climate collapse, ecosocialism, utopian socialism, nationalisation, socialisation, climate justice, just transition, labour union, climate movement, participatory backcasting
- language
- English
- id
- 9151959
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- 2024-07-24 08:49:25
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