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Energy Impasse: Investigating the cultural and social barriers to energy transition
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SSHRC Insight grant awarded 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
- 2016-10-15
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- Subjects / Keywords
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- Culture, change
- Insight Grant
- SSHRC
- Successful Grant
- Energy impasse
- Book research
- Climate change
- Culture, popular
- Activism, environment
- Fuel, fossil
- Ecocriticism
- Energy
- Environmental ethics
- IG
- Literature, comparative
- Energy humanities
- Environmental studies
- Energy futures
- Energy transition
- 21st Century
- 20th Century
- 19th Century
- USA
- Canada
- Europe
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- Type of Item
- Research Material