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Energy Impasse: Investigating the Cultural and Social Barriers to Energy Transition
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SSHRC Awarded IG 2017: Despite scientific consensus about the environmental costs of petrocarbon use and increasing political desire for energy transition, our societies remain fully dependent on fossil fuels. This research explores the ability---or inability---of contemporary culture to address the impediments and blockages that stand in the way of a transition from fossil fuels. Material to be examined includes: cultural representations (fiction, poetry, film), institutional public (government or NGO) and private (corporate) discourse, and public performances of counter-impasse (blockages, refusals, protests and other interventions).
Research results will include an academic book, public handbooks, Petrocultures website.
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- Date created
- 2016-10-16
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- Subjects / Keywords
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- IG
- Energy Humanities
- Culture, Change
- Fossil Fuels
- Ecocriticism
- Energy
- 1850-2016
- Ideology
- Successful SSHRC
- Fuel, fossil
- Comparative Literature
- Climate Change
- Energy Transition
- Book research
- Cultural Barriers
- Energy Impasse
- Environmental Studies
- Popular Culture
- Environmental Ethics
- Energy Futures
- Arts and Culture
- Social Barriers
- Natural Resources
- Insight Grant
- 2017
- Environmental Activism
- 19th Century
- 21st Century
- 20th Century
- Canada
- Europe
- USA
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- Type of Item
- Research Material
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- License
- © Szeman, Imre. All rights reserved other than by permission. This document embargoed to those without UAlberta CCID until 2025.