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Social Text (2022) 40 (1 (150)): 135–155.
Published: 01 March 2022
...Salvatore Paolo De Rosa Abstract This article discusses the politics of direct action against fossil fuels put forward by climate justice movements, focusing in particular on the tactic of the blockade. Drawing on the conceptual toolkit of urban political ecology, the argument moves from a critique...
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Social Text (2022) 40 (4 (153)): 153–179.
Published: 01 December 2022
... infrastructure: the extant infrastructure of fossil fuels poses an obstacle to energy transition, while the act of making infrastructure visible and “following the pipeline” is regarded by incisive petrocritics as necessary but insufficient. What do cooling towers, electric pylons, or railways make happen...
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Social Text (2024) 42 (2 (159)): 89–98.
Published: 01 June 2024
... Deal proposals are founded. Yet there is no “deal” for meaningful dismantling of the fossil-capitalist world system that is hurtling humanity toward the abyss—precisely the opposite: a recent report from the World Meteorological Society shows that fossil fuel emission rates are now above prepandemic...
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Social Text (2022) 40 (1 (150)): 39–67.
Published: 01 March 2022
... factor in the coup or not, global competition for the rare earth metals that are key to energy storage technologies is undeniably heating up. The World Bank estimates that demand for lithium and other rare earth metals will grow 450 percent by 2050 as the world transitions from fossil fuels to renewable...
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Social Text (2013) 31 (1 (114)): 63–81.
Published: 01 March 2013
... of this shift.1 In tandem with this crisis, however, extreme forms of biopolitical commodification are increasingly the order of the day. Take fossil fuels, for instance. As conventional sources of petroleum have become more scarce and difficult to access, Big Oil has developed new sites, sources...
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Social Text (2022) 40 (1 (150)): 1–20.
Published: 01 March 2022
... to safer sites. 16 Climate apartheid requires ideologies of violent othering. 17 As Naomi Klein puts it, “Fossil fuels require sacrifice zones: they always have. You can't have a system built on sacrificial places and sacrificial people unless intellectual theories that justify their sacrifice exist...
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Social Text (2023) 41 (2 (155)): 19–44.
Published: 01 June 2023
.... Funding-related victories, January 2016–January 2023. 2016 January US David Koch forced off board of AMNH March UK Tate drops BP April UK Edinburgh International Festival drops BP December US AMNH drops fossil fuel investments 2017 Neth. Rijksmuseum drops Aramco...
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Social Text (2018) 36 (1 (134)): 65–71.
Published: 01 March 2018
... that is licensed, authorized, and endorsed by governmental agencies. This is a slow as well as an instantaneous violence, as when the pipelines for oil continue to be built, and the long-term effects of fossil fuel extraction are joined by the instant contaminating effects of spills and other anticipated accidents...
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Social Text (2019) 37 (1 (138)): 1–26.
Published: 01 March 2019
... thought forms its (subjective) objects through its apprehension and classification of materiality. An example is the figure of the indigene, whom Elizabeth A. Povinelli argues has long been positioned as a living fossil in the politics of late liberal recognition, 1 who is further sedimented outside...
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Social Text (2021) 39 (4 (149)): 149–180.
Published: 01 December 2021
... , 2021 ). Daggett Cara New . The Birth of Energy: Fossil Fuels, Thermodynamics, and the Politics of Work . Durham, NC : Duke University Press , 2019 . Ellison Marc . “ Covid in Scotland: Rise in Rental Bookings for Illegal Parties .” BBC Scotland News , February 8 , 2021...
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Social Text (2018) 36 (2 (135)): 123–141.
Published: 01 June 2018
... exceptionalism and militarization to seize assets, lands, natural resources, and fossil fuels around the world at the sharpened thresholds between us and them, with and against, and civilized and savage. As Lisa Lowe eloquently puts it, “What we might identify as residual within the histories of settler...
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Social Text (2022) 40 (4 (153)): 1–16.
Published: 01 December 2022
... by the material needs and interests of fossil capital. In preventing pipeline construction, the blockades in fact propose an alternative vision of infrastructure tangled up with and enabling different “forms of life” (Jennifer Wenzel, this issue) that for their part also function as “infrastructures...
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Social Text (2007) 25 (2 (91)): 143–168.
Published: 01 June 2007
... the work of social critic Paul Goodman, who advocated “utopian planning” as a form of realism. Goodman realized that the absence of alternatives to militarism, modernist planning, and dependency on fossil fuel  –  based transit created...
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Social Text (2007) 25 (1 (90)): 17–39.
Published: 01 March 2007
..., and the University of Arizona’s Malcolm Hughes, who together had authored a seminal paper on “the hockey-stick effect” of fossil fuel emissions in producing global warming.17 In June 2005, Republican congressman Joe Barton, Exxon/Mobil–backed chair of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, issued...
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Social Text (2000) 18 (4 (65)): 83–107.
Published: 01 December 2000
... been disconnected from any true nationalist politics in nineteenth-century Scotland and had stagnated into “a fossilized and recessive culture” with an “in-growing nature,” that eventually sprouted a Hyde-like “possessing...
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Social Text (2022) 40 (4 (153)): 125–151.
Published: 01 December 2022
... in plantations, plants, long-dead fossilized plants, and industrialized labor is a geochemical equation of extraction in the conversion of surplus.” 26 The connection between electrification and enslavement, explicitly made by GE, not only shapes how electricity mediates human relations with the environment...
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