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Cold Water Oil: Offshore Petroleum Cultures is a collection of essays examining how societies conceive of fossil fuel extraction in the inhospitable but fragile waters of the North Atlantic and Arctic oceans.
What happens offshore matters. Currently, over a quarter of the world's oil and gas is produced from beneath the seas. The offshore petroleum industry is thus a crucial point of origin for global carbon emissions, and other environmental harms. Cold Water Oil: Offshore Petroleum Cultures illuminates ignored histories, influential contemporary narratives, and emerging energy and environmental futures. The volume centres on North Atlantic and Arctic regions; the continuing but often strongly contested pursuit of oil and gas in frigid, tumultuous, and environmentally sensitive seas enforces the lengths to which corporations and governments will go to maintain the centrality of fossil fuels. The book's contributors focus on the cultural, social, and ecological implications of oil and gas extraction in the oceanic territories of Canada, Norway, the UK, Russia, the US, and the Iñupiat of Alaska at a time of profound global uncertainty. In conversation with the energy and environmental humanities, and critical ocean studies, Cold Water Oil considers a region central to debates about climate change and the planet's future.
Cold Water Oil engages students and researchers interested in climate change, energy humanities, critical ocean studies, and North Atlantic and Arctic issues.
Contents
1. Heading Offshore: Introducing Cold Water Oil, Fiona Polack and Danine Farquharson 2. "We Are Torn About Our Future:" Big Oil and Iñupiaq Community Health in Arctic Alaska, Chie Sakakibara and Rosemary Ahtuangaruak 3. Encountering the Nonhuman in North Atlantic Oil Catastrophes, Fiona Polack 4. Dynamic Positioning: North Sea Petroculture's Backwash, Graeme Macdonald 5.The Call of Cthoilu: The Weird Subject of Cold Water Oil, Jason Haslam 6. Contested and Emergent Futures: Film and Energy Regimes of the Newfoundland Offshore, Rachel Webb Jekanowski 7. Dispatches from Two Cold Water Oil Cultures: Norway and Newfoundland and Labrador, Brigt Dale and Danine Farquharson 8. Art and the Offshore, Sue Jane Taylor 9. Time for Oil: Competing Petrotemporalities in Norway's Lofoten/Vesterålen/Senja Archipelago, Berit Kristoffersen, Gavin Bridge, and Philip Steinberg 10. From Land to Polar Sea: Russia's Ill-Starred Quest for a New Petroleum Province in the Arctic Offshore, Nina Poussenkova 11. Svalbard and Oil: Dangerous games in the Arctic?, Helge Ryggvik 12. Raw, Dense, and Loud: A Whale's Perspective on Cold Water Energy, Amy Donovan
