Unsustainable oil : facts, counterfacts and fictions / Jon Gordon.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gordon, Jon, 1979- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ecocriticism.

Environmental protection in literature.

Oil sands industry--Alberta.

Oil sands industry.

Alberta.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (192 pages) : illustrations, maps

Edition:

First edition.

Distribution:

Ottawa, Ontario : Canadian Electronic Library, 2016.

Place of Publication:

Edmonton, Alberta : The University of Alberta Press, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"Bitumen extraction is the lifeblood of Alberta, and there are many stories about the boom-and-bust economy. But what does literature have to say about the "progress" of petroculture? Jon Gordon maps out a new field of study by examining the relationship between culture and energy extraction, moving towards nuance and away from the entrenched rhetorical positions that currently dominate discussion. His examination of theoretical, political, and environmental issues in this groundbreaking book contribute to our understanding of the culture and the ethics of energy production within the Canadian context. Unsustainable Oil offers readers a chance to consider literature's potential in confronting the hegemony of the oil and gas industry, and will be particularly well-received by scholars and students of Cultural Studies, Literature, Ecocriticism, Energy Humanities, and Indigenous Studies."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Prologue : Fast Food Vacation

Introduction : Unsustainable Rhetoric

1 Lyric Oil : Re-presenting Fossil Fuels As a Cultural By-Product

2 Oil Sacrifices : Petroculture and (E)utopian Imaginings of Progress

3 Impossible Choices : Fort Mac and Oil as a "Matter of Concern"

4 Irrational Oil : Ethos, Extraction!, Elder Brother, and Free Speech

5 Pipeline Facts, Poetic Counterfacts : Metaphor and Self-Deception in a Bitumen Nation

6 Oil Desires : Appetites and Fast Violence in the Bituminous Sands

Conclusion : Living (with) Bitumen

Epilogue : Whitney Lakes Provincial Park.

Notes:

Issued as part of the Canadian Electronic Library. Canadian publishers collection.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-222) and index.

ISBN:

9781772121001

1772121002

9781772120981

1772120987

OCLC:

946876808