Assembling Petroleum Production and Climate Change in Ecuador and Norway

ISBN-13: 9780367607807 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 224 str.

Marta T

Opis

This book addresses some of the controversies and uncertainties associated with reducing the extensive exploitation of fossil fuels, due to their role in global warming. It will be of great interest to students and scholars of petroleum production, climate change, environmental policy and environmental sociology.

Spis treści

1. Introduction  2. Norwegian oil as a provider of safety and/or (future) insecurity  3. Translating Lofoten  4. The contested oil of the Ecuadorian Amazon  5. Becoming Yasuní-ITT: A process of assembling and reassembling  6. Lofoten and Yasuní-ITT: Comparing interfering networks  7. Enactments between presence and absence: A conclusion

O autorze

Elisabeth Marta Tómmerbakk is an Associate Professor at the University of Cuenca, Ecuador. She holds a PhD in Sociology from Nord University, Norway, and her research interests include petroleum conflicts, climate policies and mitigation mechanisms, knowledge production and knowledge systems, territorializations, and socio-material practices.