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).
Pétrole
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.
Gasoline Dreams (Simon Orpana, 2021)
Simon Orpana, Gasoline Dreams: Waking Up from Petroculture (New York, NY: Fordham University Press, 2021).
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.
The ubiquity of Royal Dutch Shell in the Netherlands as a case of banal petroculture
In 1995 Michael Billig introduced the term ‘banal nationalism’ to refer to those representations and reproductions of the nation which are as ubiquitous as they tend to go unnoticed.
Petrocultures in the making: Oil in 1920s Scandinavian newspapers
Based on the assumption that the periodical press was crucial for synchronising the world and preparing for global energy transition in the early 20th C., the article proposes a historiography of oil that acknowledges newspapers’ excess capacity as research material and takes advantage of analyti
The endless potentiality: A century and a half of Greek oil aspirations (and what often becomes of them)
This article focuses on select instances of the history of Greek petroleum geology, spanning over 150 years of -mostly failed- oil exploration attempts.
Pervasive extractivism: Petroculture and sedimented histories in Sandrine Bessora’s Petroleum
Cet article a deux objectifs. Premièrement, il considère comment le roman de Sandrine Bessora, Petroleum (2004), utilise l’intertexte du mythe de Médée, s’inscrivant ainsi dans une tradition littéraire spécifique, pour explorer la manière dont l’histoire est écrite.
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.