Free dissertation release
Official versions are forthcoming on the University of Toronto’s TSpace thesis hosting platform and on paper from the Asquith Press at the Toronto Reference Library, but I see no reason not to make my PhD dissertation available as a free PDF to anyone who is interested:
I have been fighting for years to get this out into the world, so it makes no sense to wait for an arbitrary convocation date and then through further administrative delays.
If you are studying the fossil fuel divestment movement at universities or climate change activism generally in Canada, the US, and UK you may find the extended bibliography useful.
North York mural
Excavation with snow
Lawrence Park Collegiate Institute
Otter Crescent
House with unusual round entryway
John Polanyi Collegiate Institute
Resisting fossil fuel recruitment at universities
A tactic that has developed in parallel to campus fossil fuel divestment campaigns has been activists resisting on-campus recruitment by fossil fuel corporations. With an industry that needs to be rapidly phased out to avoid climatic catastrophe, it doesn’t make sense to be training new people to join.
The UK eNGO People & Planet has a fossil free careers campaign. Birkbeck, University of London has banned fossil fuel firms from its career service. This month, three other UK universities did the same.
UN secretary general António Guterres recently said: “My message to you is simple: don’t work for climate wreckers. Use your talents to drive us towards a renewable future.”
A familiar companion
Ten days post-defence, and I noticed that the habit of never being able to shower without thinking of 2-5 things I should change in the dissertation endures.
It’s sensible enough in this context, since my main current task is getting the print and PDF versions done and in the hands of the masses.