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.
Politique
Creating the conditions for Western European petroculture: The Marshall Plan, the politics of the OEEC, and the transition from coal to oil
In the postwar years, petroleum products pervaded more and more aspects of Western European life.
Oil pricing and the challenge of an Arab oil trans-nationalism: Abdallah al-Tariqi and Arab oil globalization
Economics was a major field of struggle for anti-imperialist oil experts and activists.
Contested sovereignties: Oil, labour and the Saharan frontier, 1956-66
Emerging in the midst of a painful war of independence and deeply intertwined with the contested claims to territorial and economic sovereignty, the Algerian oil industry, and its labour force, occupied a unique place at the forefront of the Algerian decolonisation process.
Texas, the Tulsa Race Massacre, and White-supremacist energies: Petroleum workers and anti-Black violence in the Mid-Continent oilfields
This article examines the early twentieth-century oil workforce in the Mid-Continent petroleum region of the United States, focusing on the centrality of white supremacy within the oil industry.
Shifting Narratives of Electricity and Energy in Periods of Transition
Ce dossier vise à fournir des compréhensions nuancées et à plusieurs niveaux des choix historiques et des perceptions concernant l’approvisionnement et les technologies électriques, en prenant en considération divers gro
A Way out of Darkness: Thinking about the Future of Spain through the Promises of Electricity and Energy Abundance, 1898–1931
Cet article historicise l’électricité et l’abondance énergétique et leur relation avec la reconfiguration du pouvoir politique dans un contexte de déclin national (auto-perçu).
The West German educational reactor SUR-100 and its diplomatically intended export to Latin America
Developed in West Germany in the 1960s, the SIEMENS type SUR-100 zero-power reactor was designed both for educational purposes and as a demonstration object for an engineering discipline still in emergence.
Powering Up Canada: A History of Power, Fuel, and Energy from 1600 (Ruth W. Sandwell, ed., 2016)
Ruth W. Sandwell (ed.), Powering Up Canada: A History of Power, Fuel, and Energy from 1600 (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2016).
Demanding demand: Political configurations of energy flexibility in Berlin, 1920-2020
Berlin’s modern history provides an instructive window on the evolution of energy flexibility in an urban context.