Hydraulic fracturing and the corporate colonization of the subsurface
| dc.contributor.author | Fryer, M. Zoe, author | |
| dc.contributor.author | Macdonald, Bradley, advisor | |
| dc.contributor.author | Mumme, Stephen, committee member | |
| dc.contributor.author | McIvor, David W., committee member | |
| dc.contributor.author | Bubar, Roe, committee member | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2024-01-01T11:25:24Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2024-01-01T11:25:24Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2023 | |
| dc.description.abstract | The United States presidential election of 2000 played a prominent role in determining the trajectory of the country for the next quarter of a century. The new millennium ushered in a new era with the George W. Bush administration chosen by the courts and the electoral college, the proliferation of hydraulic fracturing, Citizens United which flooded politics with money, restrictions in democracy, and persistent global climate crises. This dissertation will explore the role of the state in facilitating the corporate colonization of the subsurface. Drawing upon the ideas within Ralph Miliband's The State in Capitalist Society, this dissertation will critically analyze American pluralism and the state to reveal the many ways in which American democracy by the people has become democracy by the corporations. Analysis will be conducted using power structure research wherein key governmental positions held by the gas and oil elite will be identified, while using the overall framework of Miliband's state apparatus, including the five areas of the executive, the administrative, the coercive, the judicial, and the sub-state. The primary argument maintained throughout this dissertation is that the gas and oil industry elite have commandeered American democracy and policies to provide for their own benefit, at the expense of the American people and the health of the environment. The conclusion will include the work of Michael Lowy to argue for an eco-socialist leaning future wherein the gas and oil and subsurface are reclaimed as property of the state to be held in preservation. | |
| dc.format.medium | born digital | |
| dc.format.medium | doctoral dissertations | |
| dc.identifier | Fryer_colostate_0053A_18140.pdf | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10217/237467 | |
| dc.language | English | |
| dc.language.iso | eng | |
| dc.publisher | Colorado State University. Libraries | |
| dc.relation.ispartof | 2020- | |
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| dc.subject | fracking | |
| dc.subject | Miliband | |
| dc.subject | socialism | |
| dc.subject | hydraulic fracturing | |
| dc.subject | ecosocialism | |
| dc.subject | pluralism | |
| dc.title | Hydraulic fracturing and the corporate colonization of the subsurface | |
| dc.type | Text | |
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| thesis.degree.discipline | Political Science | |
| thesis.degree.grantor | Colorado State University | |
| thesis.degree.level | Doctoral | |
| thesis.degree.name | Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) |
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