WaywardHouseEssays
All essays on WaywardHouse, organised by topic.
Historical Geography
1 essay-
21 min
The Ideology of Extraction
The global economy was built on extracting valuable commodities from distant frontiers. From the spice trade to modern...
Economic Geography
9 essays-
25 min
Rockets and Feathers
Gasoline pump prices in Alberta respond within hours to crude price increases and over weeks to decreases. This...
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18 min
Two Front Doors and a Mountain
Alberta's tourism economy runs through two airports, concentrates in a thin mountain corridor, peaks hard in July and...
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26 min
The Checkout Problem
Alberta produces cattle, grain, and energy, yet households face some of the highest grocery prices in Canada. This...
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31 min
Alberta's Pipeline Geography
A long-form narrative geography of Alberta's hydrocarbon pipeline system — tracing the infrastructure that connects the province to...
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43 min
Landlocked by Default: The Economic Geography of Alberta's Connectivity Crisis
Alberta sits deep within the North American continent, far from tidewater yet tightly connected to global markets. This...
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43 min
The Burning Strait
The Strait of Hormuz sits at the centre of the global energy system, where geography, politics, and shipping...
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20 min
Contested Ground
A treatise on the global oil market Alberta actually sells into — shaped by wars, sanctions, a shadow...
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19 min
The Texas of the North
An analytical comparison of Alberta, Texas, and Oklahoma as energy economies — covering the structural parallels, the crucial...
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18 min
A Trade Reality Check
A detailed data foundation for understanding Alberta's role in Confederation — grounding policy debate in measurable economic reality,...
Monitoring
1 essay-
30 min
What Light Reveals
A photograph tells you what a place looks like. A hyperspectral image tells you what it is made...