University of Cambridge > Talks.cam > POLIS Staff and PhD Student Colloquium > Defining Dependence- The Hydrocarbon Society and the Dangers of Foreign Oil

  Browse A-Z

Log in

Cambridge users (raven)details Other usersdetails No account?details

Information on

Subscribing to talksdetails Finding a talkdetails Adding a talkdetails Disseminating talksdetails Help and Documentationdetails

Defining Dependence- The Hydrocarbon Society and the Dangers of Foreign Oil

Add to your list(s) Download to your calendar using vCal

If you have a question about this talk, please contact Elif Cetin.

Please join us for a discussion of Sebastian's recent work. Hard copies of the paper will be available from the CIS office in Mill Lane in the week before the Colloquium. Alternatively e-mail Elif Cetin at ec409@cam.ac.uk for a copy.

To say that U.S. dependence on foreign oil is dangerous and threatens America’s national security would be considered a truism in most quarters. The paper examines this claim by enquiring into the material and cultural conditions of existence of U.S dependence on foreign oil and the ways in which this problem has been defined in American foreign policy discourse: how do we get from the simple fact of U.S. oil imports to the notion of ‘dependence’ and all the dangers and threats commonly associated with this condition? What does it mean to say that the U.S. is dependent on foreign oil? And what have been the manifest political consequences of this mode of representation? Approaching these issues from an interpretative point of view, this paper argues that foreign oil dependence is a cultural construction best understood within the wider framework of the U.S. ‘hydrocarbon society’.

This talk is part of the POLIS Staff and PhD Student Colloquium series.

Tell a friend about this talk:

This talk is included in these lists:

Note that ex-directory lists are not shown.

Other lists

Cambridge Area Sequencing Informatics Meeting VI (2014) Cambridge Epigenetics Club MedSIN talks

Other talks

The Digital Doctor: Hope, Hype, and Harm at the Dawn of Medicine’s Computer Age MOVED TO 28 JUNE 2018 It takes two to tango:platelet collagen receptor GPVI-dimer in thrombosis and clinical implications Computer vision techniques for measuring deformation Surrogate models in Bayesian Inverse Problems Colorectal cancer. Part 1. Presentation, Diagnosis and Intervention. Part 2. Cellular signalling networks in colon cancer and the models to study them - a basic research perspective Fluorescence spectroscopy and Microscale thermophoresis The Partition of India and Migration Horizontal transfer of antimicrobial resistance drives multi-species population level epidemics Picturing the Heart in 2020 Speculations about homological mirror symmetry for affine hypersurfaces Sustainability of livestock production: water, welfare and woodland Electrophysiological approaches in Lewy body dementia: helpful or not?
 

© 2006-2025 Talks.cam, University of Cambridge. Contact Us | Help and Documentation | Privacy and Publicity