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... This chapter aims to “see like the petrochemical industry” on a strategic level, extending the methodology of James Scott’s Seeing Like a State . Alongside observations at dozens of industry events, the analysis is based on business histories and corporate documents. The chapter examines...

... In the context of intensifying public concern over the ecological crisis, petrochemical battlegrounds have started to shift. The key battles are over the two biggest environmental crises that are putting pressure on the petrochemical industry: the climate emergency, and plastic pollution...

... This chapter examines the competing stakes in the planetary petrochemical crisis: the escalating threat of the petrochemical industry to planetary life, and the threat of the ecological crisis for the future of petro-capitalism. First, it addresses the problem of interpreting and responding...

... This chapter argues that proposals for decarbonisation, degrowth, and just transitions should be connected in struggles for just petrochemical transformations. Decarbonization offers an important dominant policy lever for downscaling the toxic petrochemical industry, but there are risks...

... This chapters reflects on some possibilities for transforming the complex, adaptive, and destructive petrochemical industry. First, it unpacks the industry’s idea of the “essential,” particularly in light of the COVID-19 pandemic, and in contrast with the idea of the “indispensable” in critical...

... Drawing on data from the Global Petrochemical Map, this chapter examines two key types of community mobilization over the impacts of the petrochemical industry, with overlapping yet distinct histories: first, environmental justice activism; and second, labor protests. It reflects...

... The introduction sets out the core research questions, argument, contribution, methodology, and structure of the book. First, it introduces the context of the global petrochemical industry as a toxic and contested yet essential and pervasive industry that society depends on, and one which faces...

... into a sublime work of art. The anthropogenic work of art is a planet carved for its resources, such as oil, and built out of petrochemicals. Part 1 situates the book in feminist, anti-colonial critiques of the Anthropocene and argues for turning to artists from wars and extractive zones for sensually perceiving...