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Contemporary life is founded on oil - a cheap, accessible, and rich
source of energy that has shaped cities and manufacturing economies
at the same time that it has increased mobility, global trade, and
environmental devastation. Despite oil's essential role, full
recognition of its social and cultural significance has only become
a prominent feature of everyday debate and discussion in the early
twenty-first century. Presenting a multifaceted analysis of the
cultural, social, and political claims and assumptions that guide
how we think and talk about oil, Petrocultures maps the complex and
often contradictory ways in which oil has influenced the public's
imagination around the world. This collection of essays shows that
oil's vast network of social and historical narratives and the
processes that enable its extraction are what characterize its
importance, and that its circulation through this immense web of
relations forms worldwide experiences and expectations.
Contributors' essays investigate the discourses surrounding oil in
contemporary culture while advancing and configuring new ways to
discuss the cultural ecosystem that it has created. A window into
the social role of oil, Petrocultures also contemplates what it
would mean if human life were no longer deeply shaped by the
consumption of fossil fuels.
Joy Kogawa is a Member of the Order of Canada and a Member of the
Order of British Columbia with numerous honorary degrees and
lifetime achievement awards to her name. The essays in this
collection explore Joy Kogawa's life work, both literary and
activist. The list of contributors includes RocA-o G. Davis, Glenn
Deer, Jonathan Hart, Julie McGonegal, Ann-Marie Metten, Tim
Nieguth, Irene Sywenky, Barbara Turnbull, and Sheena Wilson. These
essays give attention to Joy Kogawa's work beyond Obasan, with the
intention of stimulating future scholarship on the author's
multi-dimensional literary accomplishments. This collection
includes an interview with Joy Kogawa.
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