Taylor The Nonhuman Narratives of Energy

Multispecies Encounters in Extraction Zones
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-3-031-94332-4
Verlag: Springer International Publishing
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 168 Seiten

Reihe: Progress in Mathematics

This book brings the emerging field of petrocultures and energy humanities discourse into conversation with the field of animal studies. Taylor examines how fossil fuels have frequently been described as the lifeblood of capitalist modernity, making petroleum appear as something intrinsic to human life. Through examining works such as Herman Melville's , Nnedi Okorafor’s andMichel Faber’s this book highlights the commodification of nonhuman life in the history of energy and, paradoxically, how these nonhuman actors have been unacknowledged and silenced through time.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Taylor, Josephine

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1: Introduction: Alliance of Fields, Petrocultures and Animal Studies.- 2: Politics of Attention and Ethics of Vulnerability.- 3: Magnifying the Peripheral, Meat and Oil.- 4: Infrastructure of Energy, Oil Spills and Road Kill.- 5: Transitions, Energy Futures and Multispecies Relations.- 6: Conclusion: Vulnerability and Co-Existence.

Über Autor(innen)

Josephine Taylor is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at University College Dublin, Ireland, where she works on the Energy Narratives and Change in Coastal Communities in Ireland project. She undertook her PhD research at Royal Holloway, University of London, UK, in Comparative Literature and Culture. Her research specialisations are interdisciplinary in scope, exploring areas of feminism, science fiction, energy cultures and animal studies.