Pitt Scott Financial Petroleum Cultures

Narrating Volatile Futures, 1973–2050
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-3-031-99661-0
Verlag: Springer International Publishing
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 218 Seiten

Reihe: Palgrave Studies in Literature, Culture and Economics

draws upon literature, film, architecture, photography, infrastructure, advertisements, and financial reports to explore how financial narratives shape the future of energy and climate. Using frameworks from the energy, environmental, and economic humanities, the book argues that financial representations dominate contemporary petroleum cultures. It focuses on the competing narratives of finance, celebratory and critical, determining how energy is perceived, imagined, and used. Encompassing critiques of ideology and infrastructure, this book offers a new understanding of the political visions enabled and constrained by the financial sector in an increasingly volatile world.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Pitt Scott, Harry

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: Plotting Petrodollars: Oil Crisis and the Conspiracy Novel.- Chapter 3: Architecture of the Offshore: Lloyd’s in Transition.- Chapter 4: Derivative Aesthetics: Representing Volatility.- Chapter 5: Delay: Horrors on the Permafrost.- Chapter 6: Making Light Work: Genres of Solar Finance.- Chapter 7: Transitional Utopias: Financial Representation and Utopian Negation.- Chapter 8: Coda: Energy Futures.

Über Autor(innen)

Harry Pitt Scott is a Leverhulme and Lord Kelvin Adam Smith Early Career Research Fellow in the School of Critical Studies at the University of Glasgow, UK.