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dc.contributor.authorHarmer, Nichola
dc.date.accessioned2017-03-30T13:45:15Z
dc.date.issued2017-03-08
dc.identifier.issn2162-2671
dc.identifier.issn2162-268X
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10026.1/8744
dc.description.abstract

Crude geopolitics: territory and governance in post-peak oil imaginaries. Territory, Politics, Governance. Concerns over diminishing access to cheap fossil fuels and the impacts of their use on the environment have engendered the production of novels in which new ways of living and alternative forms of governance are imagined. From pioneering self-sufficiency expert John Seymour in the 1990s to twenty-first century novelists dealing with the twin crises of climate change and ‘peak oil’, these stories draw on existential concerns over resource depletion, environmental degradation and climate change to portray fundamentally altered socio-political futures. This article explores the political geographies of these imaginary futures as depicted in post-peak oil novels from the UK and the US. It traces the reterritorialization and rescaling of governance following the imagined disintegration of social and political structures post-peak oil, highlighting an emphasis on the creation of small, localized communities, drawing for their survival on their immediate physical geography. In doing so, the article also demonstrates how the novels provide a conceptual space in which diverse threads of political philosophical thought are drawn upon in order to construct new political geographies in the imagined post-oil societies.

dc.format.extent405-428
dc.languageen
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherInforma UK Limited
dc.subject16 Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions
dc.titleCrude geopolitics: territory and governance in post-peak oil imaginaries
dc.typejournal-article
dc.typeJournal Article
plymouth.issue4
plymouth.volume6
plymouth.publication-statusPublished
plymouth.journalTerritory, Politics, Governance
dc.identifier.doi10.1080/21622671.2017.1297251
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plymouth.organisational-group/Plymouth/Faculty of Science and Engineering/School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences
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dcterms.dateAccepted2017-01-12
dc.rights.embargodate2018-9-8
dc.identifier.eissn2162-268X
dc.rights.embargoperiod18 months
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