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Call for Papers: Third World Oil Crises: Global Connections, Everyday Repercussions, and the 1970s
Virtual Workshop, Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, University of Edinburgh, 25-27 August 2021
The workshop Third World Oil Crises: Global Connections, Everyday Repercussions, and the 1970s will explore how the oil crisis and its aftermath reshaped livelihoods, environments, and politics across the Third World. Moving beyond macroeconomic and diplomatic narratives, it will address a more open-ended set of inquiries that examine the social, environmental, political, cultural, and intellectual histories of the oil crisis. Suggested themes for papers may include (but are certainly not limited to):
- changed notions of citizenship and the politics of deprivation, shortage, and austerity
- the search for alternative forms of energy, materials, and commodities
- altered conceptions of development, the future, and temporality
- new forms of grassroots and transnational social movements
- novel or fragmented transnational political solidarities
- ideas of sustainability and ecological consciousness
- the emergence of new economic practices
- social consequences of the ‘crisis’ in petroleum-producing states
Submission deadline: 1 July 2021
