1st Edition
Assembling Petroleum Production and Climate Change in Ecuador and Norway
By Elisabeth Marta Tómmerbakk
Copyright 2022
236 Pages
6 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
236 Pages
6 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
236 Pages
6 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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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.
Elisabeth Marta Tómmerbakk explores why a transition towards a post-carbon society is so difficult to accomplish by examining how the relationship between petroleum production and climate change is politically framed and... Read more
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
Biography
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.
