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Focusing on Alberta’s 2018 “Keep Canada Working” campaign during the Trans Mountain Pipeline Expansion controversy, the chapter identifies a rhetoric of “symbolic nationalization” that recoded a foreign-capital-dominated private sector as a national commons. This resource-nationalist imaginary mobilized unity and sovereignty tropes to mask uneven risks and benefits, promising prosperity while obscuring material contradictions on the ground. The chapter situates these strategies within petro-state dynamics and the “resource nationalism” literature to show how national belonging is enlisted to normalize extractivism.

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“Keep Canada Working”: Promoting Resource Nationalism via Symbolic Nationalization

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    2026年

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  • Sibo Chen

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Focusing on Alberta’s 2018 “Keep Canada Working” campaign during the Trans Mountain Pipeline Expansion controversy, the chapter identifies a rhetoric of “symbolic nationalization” that recoded a foreign-capital-dominated private sector as a national commons. This resource-nationalist imaginary mobilized unity and sovereignty tropes to mask uneven risks and benefits, promising prosperity while obscuring material contradictions on the ground. The chapter situates these strategies within petro-state dynamics and the “resource nationalism” literature to show how national belonging is enlisted to normalize extractivism.