Julie MacArthur

Julie MacArthur is an associate professor and the Canada Research Chair in Reimagining Capitalism at Royal Roads University. Her work investigates the political economy of low carbon transitions, with a particular focus on how grassroots and community-led initiatives can scale up to make radical and transformative impacts to both adaptation and mitigation.

She has published widely on community energy initiatives in Canada and New Zealand, on participatory policy design, Green New Deal politics, and the gendered employment trends across energy sub-sectors. She is the author of Empowering Electricity: Co-operatives, Sustainability and Power Sector Reform in Canada (UBC 2016) and co-editor of Environmental Politics and Policy in Aotearoa New Zealand (University of Auckland 2022).