Cold Water Oil

Cold Water Oil: Offshore Petroleum Cultures is a collection of essays examining how societies conceive of fossil fuel extraction in the inhospitable but fragile waters of the North Atlantic and Arctic oceans. Around a third of the world's oil and gas isproduced from beneath the ocean floor, and this proportion is increasing as companies push into deeper and more remote areas. Nonetheless, only spectacular spills and blowouts bring the offshore petroleum industry widespread attention. The volume offers the first interdisciplinary study of diverse cultural imaginaries driving continued development in these regions, and points to alternatives. Cold Water Oil is a major contribution to energy humanities and critical ocean studies scholarship, and broader interrogations of climate change and environmental issues. Connecting the perspectives of North American and European scholars, it intervenes in regional and global debates about natural resource extraction off northern coasts. Cold Water Oil will be of great interest to students and researchers interested in climate change, energy humanities, critical ocean studies, and North Atlantic and Arctic issues--