Darin Barney’s scientific contributions

... Unlike skilled selves, industrious selves have long been protagonists in the vision of Canada as a resource nation that circulated among politicians and in the media over the period in question. This vision is part of a well-documented tendency among the country's elite to discursively link sovereignty and national identity to major 'nation-building' technological infrastructure projects that facilitate the extraction and transportation of natural resources (Aronczyk 2017, Barney 2017. The construction of the Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) in the 19th Century is the original project around which this vision of the country orients itself because the project physically linked Eastern Canada to what would become Canada's Western provinces, making the natural resource extracted from these regions available for export. ...

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On being an “oil and gas worker”: dominant discourse, self-representation, and Canada’s energy future