2nd call: Apologies for cross-postings…..
Call for Papers
Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers
Washington, DC April 14-18, 2010
*Theorizing Petro-capitalism: Oil, Accumulation, Struggle*
Matthew T. Huber, Department of Geography, Maxwell School of Syracuse
University
Byron Miller, Department of Geography, University of Calgary
The political economy of oil offers an entry point into a number of
issues that concern geographers – economic/ecological crisis, resource
sovereignty/nationalism, geopolitics, environmental justice,
financialization, and (sub)urban spatial restructuring. While a number
of these topics have been examined in isolation, oil’s stickiness to
multiple geographical themes suggests a broader opening to theorize the
central role of petroleum resources (and the struggles that produce
them) in shaping the production and reproduction of capitalist social
relations.
This call for papers seeks contributions aiming to theorize the
political economy (and ecology) of what Michael Watts calls
“petro-capitalism.” While we welcome historical and contemporary
examples, we seek papers that use oil to ask broader conceptual
questions about political economy, nature, and space. Examples of
possible approaches include ecological Marxism, critical geopolitics,
theories of imperialism, the regulation approach, governmentality, and
theories of materiality.
Possible topics of interest include:
- rent and (petro)state formation
- petrodollars and financialization
- the political ecology of oil extraction
- oil, violence, and environmental justice
- oil consumption, social reproduction, and everyday life
- oil, automobility, and (sub)urban spatiality
- oil, carbon, and the politics of climate change
- peak oil, scarcity, and the production of geological knowledge
This session is sponsored by the Socialist and Critical Geography
Specialty Group and The Energy and Environment Specialty Group.
Questions and/or abstracts of no longer than 250 words should be sent to
either Matt Huber ([log in to unmask]) or Byron Miller
([log in to unmask]) by *October 21^st 2009*.* *
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Dr. Byron Miller
Associate Professor and Associate Head, Department of Geography
Director, Urban Studies Program
Adjunct Associate Professor of Planning
Fellow, Institute for Advanced Policy Research
address:
Department of Geography
328 Earth Sciences Building
University of Calgary
2500 University Drive
Calgary, AB T2N 1N4
Canada
telephone: (403) 220-7321
fax: (403) 282-6561
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