Anna Zalik
Biographic Data
| ID | 190025 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Anna Zalik |
| GIVEN NAMES | Anna |
| FAMILY NAME | Zalik |
| SIGNATURE | ZALIK A |
| AFFILIATIONS | York University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3596-2870 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 170 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
North American Neomercantilism and Energy Sector Integration: Trade Disputes, Green Marketing, and the Continental Infrastructural Regime
President Trump’s 2025 trade war placed North America’s continental energy and infrastructural regime at the center of hemispheric disputes, from cusma renegotiation to intensified competition over regionally proximate energy sources. This article examines how Mexico and Canada are repositioning within this system amid the global oscillation between neoliberalism and neomercantilism. We argue that internal tensions arising from this shift are add…
The conservation-extraction nexus in ocean Areas Beyond National Jurisdiction: Tension or co-constitution
Recent years have seen a sharp uptick in efforts to expedite resource extraction in, and expand biodiversity conservation to, Areas Beyond National Jurisdiction (ABNJ), the ~70% of oceans outside state space. In this symposium piece, we explore the co-constitution of the parallel acceleration of biodiversity conservation and economic exploitation that is unfolding in ways unique to the high seas, but consistent with global patterns wherein this c…
Whither hydrocarbons? The rescaling of global oil and gas markets amidst Covid-19 and a contested transition
Extraction, entanglements, and (im)materialities: Reflections on the methods and methodologies of natural resource industries fieldwork
This multi-authored collection of papers examines the complex realities of research on natural resource industries, including the messy entanglements of extraction, materiality, and everyday social life this research entails. Of central importance to the contributors is how scholars confront fieldwork challenges ethically, methodologically, and corporeally. The collection has two key objectives. First, it expands our understanding of extractive i…
Enhancing corporate standing, shifting blame: An examination of Canada's Extractive Sector Transparency Measures Act
Beyond transparency: A consideration of extraction's full costs
Consistently unreliable: Oil spill data and transparency discourse
The limits of audit culture extractivism: Risk and reinsurance in Canadian oil transport by rail and pipeline
Ocean frontiers: Epistemologies, Jurisdictions, Commodifications
The dynamic and unfolding relationship between the oceans and humans underwrites a general narrative of oceans in 'crisis' and the need for new governance and regulatory frameworks to attend to it. As concerns surrounding marine space have proliferated, sovereignty, territory and property in the oceans remain imprecise and subject to controversy, presenting challenges (and opportunities) for oceans governance. This special issue employs the conce…
Mining the seabed, enclosing the Area: Ocean Grabbing, Proprietary Knowledge and the Geopolitics of the Extractive Frontier Beyond National Jurisdiction
Over the past 15 years the International Seabed Authority (ISA), the United Nations agency charged with regulating extraction from the ocean floor and seabed in areas beyond national jurisdiction (a zone referred to as the "Area"), has assigned exploration contracts for deep sea mineral exploration for specific zones under its purview. Pressures have mounted in recent years for a rapid roll out of an ISA mineral exploitation regime. Under interna…
Environmental Policy Convergence in Canada's Fossil Fuel Provinces? Regulatory Streamlining, Impediments, and Drift
This article identifies notable trends in environmental policy surrounding oil and gas development in Canada's leading producing provinces (Alberta, British Columbia, Newfoundland and Labrador, and Saskatchewan) in the period from 2009 to 2014: environmental policy streamlining in particular via the consolidation of environmental policymaking in development-oriented agencies, the continuation and raising of barriers to public involvement in decis…
Environmental displacement: The common ground of climate change, extraction and conservation
In this introduction to a special section on environmental displacement, we introduce the concept and ground it in seemingly distinct processes of climate change, extraction, and conservation. We understand environmental displacement as a process by which communities find the land they occupy irrevocably altered in ways that foreclose or otherwise impede possibilities for habitation or else disrupt access to resources within these spaces of life,…
Displacement and denationalisation: The M exican G ulf 75 years after the expropriation
Recent oil and gas sector reforms in M exico transform protections on petroleum resources and labour that were implemented as a result of the 1938 nationalisation of the country's oil industry. This paper examines the E tileno XXI project, a private petrochemical plant led by a B razilian firm and supported by M exican and transnational capital, which manifests the role of early 21st‐century global commodity markets in restructuring M exico's ene…
Resource sterilization: Reserve replacement, financial risk, and environmental review in Canada's tar sands
Pivoting on the process of reserve replacement undertaken by key oil transnationals in Canada as a spatial fix for capital, the article considers how individual firms employ formal review processes to project their strategic interests. The proponent firm shapes, through its own participation, the regulatory terrain on which competitors will subsequently operate. In Alberta's tar sands, the oil industry's reserve replacement process serves as a sp…
The Dilemmas of Global Resistance against Extractive Capital: The Oilwatch Network in Africa
This article examines the emergence and campaigns of Oilwatch Africa and their implications for North-South tensions among global advocacy networks. The paper explores how the actions of civil society networks in the global South also express internal tensions shaped by local and national power relations. These relations are affected by political, economic, and cultural variations in the social conditions of the communities that these networks se…
Oil ‘futures’: Shell’s Scenarios and the social constitution of the global oil market
Zones of Exclusion: Offshore Extraction, the Contestation of Space and Physical Displacement in the Nigerian Delta and the Mexican Gulf
This article examines two aid interventions that manifest the merging of community development/relief and industrial security policy in the petroleum offshore of the Nigerian Niger Delta and the Mexican Gulf. In the Nigerian case, the article considers the crisis in the Warri region of Delta State in 2003, the subsequent evacuation of local residents, and the surrounding context of oil‐related violence. Simmering since the 1990s, the 2003 Warri c…
Liquefied Natural Gas and Fossil Capitalism
The contemporary ecological crisis places a new spin on the notion of the "resource curse," evoking widespread concerns regarding hydrocarbon dependency. Whether environmental, in the form of global warming, or socio-political, through wars over oil, "fossil capitalism" is now understood as a global problem. The development of a global market in natural gas, heavily dependent on the development of the Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) industry, offers …
The Niger delta: ‘Petro Violence’ and ‘Partnership Development’1
This article examines the globalisation of corporate strategic philanthropy as played out in the Niger Delta of Nigeria — a region that has been marked by a history of state and petroleum industry collusion both in social repression and environmental destruction. Social control of the Delta has rested largely on what Watts (2001) conceptualises as ‘petro violence’, the joint security imposed by the Nigerian military and oil companies to police th…
The Niger delta: ‘Petro Violence’ and ‘Partnership Development’1
This article examines the globalisation of corporate strategic philanthropy as played out in the Niger Delta of Nigeria — a region that has been marked by a history of state and petroleum industry collusion both in social repression and environmental destruction. Social control of the Delta has rested largely on what Watts (2001) conceptualises as ‘petro violence’, the joint security imposed by the Nigerian military and oil companies to police th…
Oil ‘futures’: Shell’s Scenarios and the social constitution of the global oil market
Ocean frontiers: Epistemologies, Jurisdictions, Commodifications
The dynamic and unfolding relationship between the oceans and humans underwrites a general narrative of oceans in 'crisis' and the need for new governance and regulatory frameworks to attend to it. As concerns surrounding marine space have proliferated, sovereignty, territory and property in the oceans remain imprecise and subject to controversy, presenting challenges (and opportunities) for oceans governance. This special issue employs the conce…
Environmental displacement: The common ground of climate change, extraction and conservation
In this introduction to a special section on environmental displacement, we introduce the concept and ground it in seemingly distinct processes of climate change, extraction, and conservation. We understand environmental displacement as a process by which communities find the land they occupy irrevocably altered in ways that foreclose or otherwise impede possibilities for habitation or else disrupt access to resources within these spaces of life,…
Mining the seabed, enclosing the Area: Ocean Grabbing, Proprietary Knowledge and the Geopolitics of the Extractive Frontier Beyond National Jurisdiction
Over the past 15 years the International Seabed Authority (ISA), the United Nations agency charged with regulating extraction from the ocean floor and seabed in areas beyond national jurisdiction (a zone referred to as the "Area"), has assigned exploration contracts for deep sea mineral exploration for specific zones under its purview. Pressures have mounted in recent years for a rapid roll out of an ISA mineral exploitation regime. Under interna…
Environmental Policy Convergence in Canada's Fossil Fuel Provinces? Regulatory Streamlining, Impediments, and Drift
This article identifies notable trends in environmental policy surrounding oil and gas development in Canada's leading producing provinces (Alberta, British Columbia, Newfoundland and Labrador, and Saskatchewan) in the period from 2009 to 2014: environmental policy streamlining in particular via the consolidation of environmental policymaking in development-oriented agencies, the continuation and raising of barriers to public involvement in decis…
Zones of Exclusion: Offshore Extraction, the Contestation of Space and Physical Displacement in the Nigerian Delta and the Mexican Gulf
This article examines two aid interventions that manifest the merging of community development/relief and industrial security policy in the petroleum offshore of the Nigerian Niger Delta and the Mexican Gulf. In the Nigerian case, the article considers the crisis in the Warri region of Delta State in 2003, the subsequent evacuation of local residents, and the surrounding context of oil‐related violence. Simmering since the 1990s, the 2003 Warri c…
Extraction, entanglements, and (im)materialities: Reflections on the methods and methodologies of natural resource industries fieldwork
This multi-authored collection of papers examines the complex realities of research on natural resource industries, including the messy entanglements of extraction, materiality, and everyday social life this research entails. Of central importance to the contributors is how scholars confront fieldwork challenges ethically, methodologically, and corporeally. The collection has two key objectives. First, it expands our understanding of extractive i…
Liquefied Natural Gas and Fossil Capitalism
The contemporary ecological crisis places a new spin on the notion of the "resource curse," evoking widespread concerns regarding hydrocarbon dependency. Whether environmental, in the form of global warming, or socio-political, through wars over oil, "fossil capitalism" is now understood as a global problem. The development of a global market in natural gas, heavily dependent on the development of the Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) industry, offers …
The conservation-extraction nexus in ocean Areas Beyond National Jurisdiction: Tension or co-constitution
Recent years have seen a sharp uptick in efforts to expedite resource extraction in, and expand biodiversity conservation to, Areas Beyond National Jurisdiction (ABNJ), the ~70% of oceans outside state space. In this symposium piece, we explore the co-constitution of the parallel acceleration of biodiversity conservation and economic exploitation that is unfolding in ways unique to the high seas, but consistent with global patterns wherein this c…
Consistently unreliable: Oil spill data and transparency discourse
Displacement and denationalisation: The M exican G ulf 75 years after the expropriation
Recent oil and gas sector reforms in M exico transform protections on petroleum resources and labour that were implemented as a result of the 1938 nationalisation of the country's oil industry. This paper examines the E tileno XXI project, a private petrochemical plant led by a B razilian firm and supported by M exican and transnational capital, which manifests the role of early 21st‐century global commodity markets in restructuring M exico's ene…
Enhancing corporate standing, shifting blame: An examination of Canada's Extractive Sector Transparency Measures Act
Beyond transparency: A consideration of extraction's full costs
The limits of audit culture extractivism: Risk and reinsurance in Canadian oil transport by rail and pipeline
The Niger delta: ‘Petro Violence’ and ‘Partnership Development’1
This article examines the globalisation of corporate strategic philanthropy as played out in the Niger Delta of Nigeria — a region that has been marked by a history of state and petroleum industry collusion both in social repression and environmental destruction. Social control of the Delta has rested largely on what Watts (2001) conceptualises as ‘petro violence’, the joint security imposed by the Nigerian military and oil companies to police th…
Liquefied Natural Gas and Fossil Capitalism
The contemporary ecological crisis places a new spin on the notion of the "resource curse," evoking widespread concerns regarding hydrocarbon dependency. Whether environmental, in the form of global warming, or socio-political, through wars over oil, "fossil capitalism" is now understood as a global problem. The development of a global market in natural gas, heavily dependent on the development of the Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) industry, offers …
Zones of Exclusion: Offshore Extraction, the Contestation of Space and Physical Displacement in the Nigerian Delta and the Mexican Gulf
This article examines two aid interventions that manifest the merging of community development/relief and industrial security policy in the petroleum offshore of the Nigerian Niger Delta and the Mexican Gulf. In the Nigerian case, the article considers the crisis in the Warri region of Delta State in 2003, the subsequent evacuation of local residents, and the surrounding context of oil‐related violence. Simmering since the 1990s, the 2003 Warri c…
The Dilemmas of Global Resistance against Extractive Capital: The Oilwatch Network in Africa
This article examines the emergence and campaigns of Oilwatch Africa and their implications for North-South tensions among global advocacy networks. The paper explores how the actions of civil society networks in the global South also express internal tensions shaped by local and national power relations. These relations are affected by political, economic, and cultural variations in the social conditions of the communities that these networks se…
Oil ‘futures’: Shell’s Scenarios and the social constitution of the global oil market
Resource sterilization: Reserve replacement, financial risk, and environmental review in Canada's tar sands
Pivoting on the process of reserve replacement undertaken by key oil transnationals in Canada as a spatial fix for capital, the article considers how individual firms employ formal review processes to project their strategic interests. The proponent firm shapes, through its own participation, the regulatory terrain on which competitors will subsequently operate. In Alberta's tar sands, the oil industry's reserve replacement process serves as a sp…
Environmental displacement: The common ground of climate change, extraction and conservation
In this introduction to a special section on environmental displacement, we introduce the concept and ground it in seemingly distinct processes of climate change, extraction, and conservation. We understand environmental displacement as a process by which communities find the land they occupy irrevocably altered in ways that foreclose or otherwise impede possibilities for habitation or else disrupt access to resources within these spaces of life,…
Displacement and denationalisation: The M exican G ulf 75 years after the expropriation
Recent oil and gas sector reforms in M exico transform protections on petroleum resources and labour that were implemented as a result of the 1938 nationalisation of the country's oil industry. This paper examines the E tileno XXI project, a private petrochemical plant led by a B razilian firm and supported by M exican and transnational capital, which manifests the role of early 21st‐century global commodity markets in restructuring M exico's ene…
Environmental Policy Convergence in Canada's Fossil Fuel Provinces? Regulatory Streamlining, Impediments, and Drift
This article identifies notable trends in environmental policy surrounding oil and gas development in Canada's leading producing provinces (Alberta, British Columbia, Newfoundland and Labrador, and Saskatchewan) in the period from 2009 to 2014: environmental policy streamlining in particular via the consolidation of environmental policymaking in development-oriented agencies, the continuation and raising of barriers to public involvement in decis…
The limits of audit culture extractivism: Risk and reinsurance in Canadian oil transport by rail and pipeline
Ocean frontiers: Epistemologies, Jurisdictions, Commodifications
The dynamic and unfolding relationship between the oceans and humans underwrites a general narrative of oceans in 'crisis' and the need for new governance and regulatory frameworks to attend to it. As concerns surrounding marine space have proliferated, sovereignty, territory and property in the oceans remain imprecise and subject to controversy, presenting challenges (and opportunities) for oceans governance. This special issue employs the conce…
Mining the seabed, enclosing the Area: Ocean Grabbing, Proprietary Knowledge and the Geopolitics of the Extractive Frontier Beyond National Jurisdiction
Over the past 15 years the International Seabed Authority (ISA), the United Nations agency charged with regulating extraction from the ocean floor and seabed in areas beyond national jurisdiction (a zone referred to as the "Area"), has assigned exploration contracts for deep sea mineral exploration for specific zones under its purview. Pressures have mounted in recent years for a rapid roll out of an ISA mineral exploitation regime. Under interna…
Enhancing corporate standing, shifting blame: An examination of Canada's Extractive Sector Transparency Measures Act
Beyond transparency: A consideration of extraction's full costs
Consistently unreliable: Oil spill data and transparency discourse
Extraction, entanglements, and (im)materialities: Reflections on the methods and methodologies of natural resource industries fieldwork
This multi-authored collection of papers examines the complex realities of research on natural resource industries, including the messy entanglements of extraction, materiality, and everyday social life this research entails. Of central importance to the contributors is how scholars confront fieldwork challenges ethically, methodologically, and corporeally. The collection has two key objectives. First, it expands our understanding of extractive i…
Whither hydrocarbons? The rescaling of global oil and gas markets amidst Covid-19 and a contested transition
The conservation-extraction nexus in ocean Areas Beyond National Jurisdiction: Tension or co-constitution
Recent years have seen a sharp uptick in efforts to expedite resource extraction in, and expand biodiversity conservation to, Areas Beyond National Jurisdiction (ABNJ), the ~70% of oceans outside state space. In this symposium piece, we explore the co-constitution of the parallel acceleration of biodiversity conservation and economic exploitation that is unfolding in ways unique to the high seas, but consistent with global patterns wherein this c…
North American Neomercantilism and Energy Sector Integration: Trade Disputes, Green Marketing, and the Continental Infrastructural Regime
President Trump’s 2025 trade war placed North America’s continental energy and infrastructural regime at the center of hemispheric disputes, from cusma renegotiation to intensified competition over regionally proximate energy sources. This article examines how Mexico and Canada are repositioning within this system amid the global oscillation between neoliberalism and neomercantilism. We argue that internal tensions arising from this shift are add…
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