Scholars
William K. Carroll
University of Victoria
Based in
Canada
North America
William K. Carroll’s research interests are in the political economy/ecology of corporate capitalism, social movements and social change, and critical social theory and method. Since 2015 he has co-directed The Corporate Mapping Project, an interdisciplinary initiative bringing scholars and activists together in research and knowledge mobilization on the power and influence of fossil capital in Canada. A member of the Sociology Department at the University of Victoria since 1981, and founding Director of UVic’s interdisciplinary program in Social Justice Studies, Dr. Carroll’s books include Regime of Obstruction: How Corporate Power Blocks Energy Democracy, available for free download.
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Country(ies) of Specialty
United States CanadaFocus areas of expertise
Greenwashing Climate policy and politics Climate Justice Social movementsPublications
Articles
William K. Carroll. 2021. “Regime of Obstruction: How Corporate Power Blocks Energy Democracy.” Edmonton: AU Press, edited.
William K. Carroll and J.P. Sapinski. 2018. Organizing the 1%: How Corporate Power Works. Halifax: Fernwood Publishing.
William K. Carroll. 2016. Expose, Oppose, Propose: Alternative Policy Groups and the Struggle for Global Justice. London and Halifax: Zed Books and Fernwood Publishing.
William K. Carroll and Kanchan Sakar. 2016. A World to Win: Contemporary Social Movements and Counter-Hegemony. Winnipeg: ARP Books, edited.
William K. Carroll. 2010. The Making of a Transnational Capitalist Class. London: Zed Books.
William K. Carroll. 2010. Corporate Power in a Globalizing World. Toronto: Oxford University Press, revised edition.
William K. Carroll. 2020. “Fossil Capitalism, Climate Capitalism, Energy Democracy: The Struggle for Hegemony in an era of Climate Crisis” Socialist Studies 14(1): 1-26.
William K. Carroll, Nicolas Graham and Mark Shakespear. 2020. “Foundations, ENGOs, Clean Growth Networks and the Integral State” Canadian Journal of Sociology 45:109-40.
Nicolas Graham, William K. Carroll and David Chen. 2020. “Carbon Capital’s Political Reach: A Network Analysis of Federal Lobbying by the Fossil Fuel Industry from Harper to Trudeau” Canadian Political Science Review 14: 1-31.
William K. Carroll. 2020. “Fossil Capital, Imperialism and the Global Corporate Elite.” Pp. 30-57 in Vishwas Satgar (ed.), BRICS and the New American Imperialism. Johannesburg: WITS University Press, doi 10.18772/22020035287.
William K. Carroll. 2018. “Rethinking the Transnational Capitalist Class” Alternate Routes: A Journal of Critical Social Research 29: 188-206.
William K. Carroll and Shannon Daub. 2018. “Corporate power, fossil capital, climate crisis: Introducing the Corporate Mapping Project” Studies in Political Economy 98 (2): 111-13.
William K. Carroll, Nicolas Graham, Michael Lang, Kevin McCartney and Zoe Yunker. 2018. “The Corporate Elite and the Architecture of Climate Change Denial: A Network Analysis of Carbon Capital’s Reach into Civil Society.” Canadian Review of Sociology 55 (3): 425-50.
Garry Gray and William K. Carroll. 2018. “Mapping Corporate Influence and Institutional Corruption Inside Canadian Universities.” Critical Criminology 26:491-507.
William K. Carroll, Nicolas Graham and Zoe Yunker. 2018. “Carbon Capital and Corporate Influence: Mapping elite Networks of Corporations, Universities and Research Institutes.” Pp. 58-74 in Jamie Brownlee, Chris Hurl and Kevin Walby (eds.), Corporatizing Canada. Toronto: Between the Lines.
William K. Carroll. 2017. “Canada’s Carbon-Capital Elite: A Tangled Web of Corporate Power.” Canadian Journal of Sociology 42: 225-60.
William K. Carroll and J.P. Sapinski. 2017. “Transnational Alternative Policy Groups in Global Civil Society: Enablers of Post-Capitalist Alternatives or Carriers of NGOization?” Critical Sociology 43: 875-92, with as co-author.
Eelke M. Heemskerk, Meindert Fennemaand William K. Carroll. 2016. “The Global Corporate Elite after the Financial Crisis: Evidence from the Transnational Network of Interlocking Directorates.” Global Networks 16: 68–88.
William K. Carroll and J.P. Sapinski. 2016. “Neoliberalism and the Transnational Capitalist Class.” Pp. 25-35 in Kean Birch, Julie MacLeavy and Simon Springer, eds. The Handbook of Neoliberalism. London: Routledge.
William K. Carroll. 2016. “The Changing Face(s) of Corporate Power in Canada.” Pp 12-23 in Edward G. Grabb and Monica Hwang (eds.), Social Inequality in Canada 6th edition.
Toronto: Oxford University Press.
William K. Carroll. 2016. “Expose, Oppose, Propose: Cognitive Praxis in the Struggle for Global Justice.” 47th Annual Sorokin Lecture. Saskatchewan: University of Saskatchewan
William K. Carroll. 2015. “Modes of Cognitive Praxis in Transnational Alternative Policy Groups.” Globalizations 12:710-727.
William K. Carroll and David Huxtable. 2014. “Building Capacity for Alternative Knowledge: The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives,” Canadian Review of Social Policy 70: 93-111.
William K. Carroll and David Huxtable. 2014. “Expose/Oppose/Propose: The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives and the Challenge of Alternative Knowledge.” Labour/Le travail, 74: 1-24.
William K. Carroll. 2012. “Global, Transnational, Regional, National: The Need for Nuance in Theorizing Global Capitalism.” Critical Sociology 38: 365-71.
Jerome Klassen and William K. Carroll. 2011. “Transnational Class Formation? Globalization and the Canadian Corporate Network.” Journal of World-Systems Research 17: 379-402.
William K. Carroll and J.P. Sapinski. 2010. “The Global Corporate Elite and the Transnational Policy-Planning Network, 1996–2006: A Structural Analysis.” International Sociology 25(4): 501-538.
William K. Carroll, Meindert Fennema and Eelke M. Heemskerk. 2010. “Constituting Corporate Europe: A Study of Elite Social Organization.” Antipode 42(4): 811-43.
William K. Carroll and Jerome Klassen. 2010. “Hollowing out Corporate Canada? Changes in the Corporate Network Since the 1990s.” Canadian Journal of Sociology 35(1): 1-30,.