Energy futures and present threats: critical infrastructure resilience, accumulation, and dispossession

Abstract

This article situates Canada’s national critical infrastructure security/resilience assemblage as encompassing pacification strategies that further accumulation and dispossession. It traces how specific practices enact preemptive anticipatory risk thinking in invoking an extractivist nation-state future and its threats, which are constituted as risks to be addressed in the present. In addition to criminalizing Indigenous land defenders and environmentalists, this assemblage generates frontiers for accumulation through an emphasis on increased financial investment in infrastructures.