Climate and Capital in the Age of Petroleum: Locating Terminal Landscapes (Jeff Diamanti, 2021)
Jeff Diamanti, Climate and Capital in the Age of Petroleum: Locating Terminal Landscapes (New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2021).
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Pervasive petrocultures: histories, ideas and practices of fossil fuels
Ce numéro spécial est consacré au concept de pétroculture et à sa relation avec l’histoire de l’énergie et les sciences humaines de l’énergie.
“Blue-Eyed Arabs” & the Silver Snake: Alaskan petrocultures and the Trans-Alaska pipeline system
Following fierce construction controversies in the late 1960s and the early 1970s, the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System became a familiar cultural hallmark and the most iconic pipeline in the world.
Oceanic irrealism. Danish petrofiction below the surface
This article ventures seaward to examine how two contemporary Danish novels paradoxically uses irrealist features to make visible the existent opacity and mythology of oil.
A healthy climate for Swiss homes: The medicalisation of indoor climate in the late 19th century
Indoor climate gained attention in Switzerland in the late 19th century as a means to preserve human health.
Epilogue. Field notes from the end of the world: Light, darkness, energy, and endscape in polar night
This personal essay describes light(s) and darkness(es) in Longyearbyen, Svalbard (Norway) during polar night in January 2019.
Past, present and prospective energy transitions: an invitation to historians
This paper argues that historians and their disciplinary practices can enhance the analysis of energy transitions by non-historians.
The Shock of the Anthropocene (Christophe Bonneuil and Jean-Baptiste Fressoz, 2017)
Christophe Bonneuil and Jean-Baptiste Fressoz, The Shock of the Anthropocene (London, New York: Verso, 2017) Translator, David Fernbach