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• Winner of Lifeblood 2014

Overview

If our oil addiction is so bad for us, why don't we kick the habit? Looking beyond the usual culprits--Big Oil, petro-states, and the strategists of empire-- Lifeblood finds a deeper and more complex explanation in everyday practices of oil consumption in American culture. Those practices, Matthew T. Huber suggests, have in fact been instrumental in shaping the broader cultural politics of American capitalism.

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Author:   Matthew T. Huber
Publisher:   University of Minnesota Press
Imprint:   University of Minnesota Press
Dimensions:   Width: 14.00cm , Height: 3.80cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   0.295kg
ISBN:  

9780816677856

ISBN 10:   0816677859
Pages:   288
Publication Date:   09 August 2013
Audience:   General/trade ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Professional and scholarly ,  General ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Contents Introduction: Oil, Life, Politics 1. The Power of Oil? Energy, Machines, and the Forces of Capital2. Refueling Capitalism: Depression, Oil, and the Making of “the American Way of Life”3. Fractionated Lives: Refineries and the Ecology of Entrepreneurial Life4. Shocked! “Energy Crisis,” Neoliberalism, and the Construction of an Apolitical Economy5. Pain at the Pump: Gas Prices, Life, and Death under Neoliberalism Conclusion: Energizing Freedom AcknowledgmentsNotesBibliographyIndex

Reviews

Compellingly presented and enlivened by fascinating archival research, Huber s arguments about the ecology of politics and the centrality of oil to the making of entrepreneurial life are important and intriguing. Gavin Bridge, Durham University

Compellingly presented and enlivened by fascinating archival research, Huber's arguments about the 'ecology of politics' and the centrality of oil to the making of 'entrepreneurial life' are important and intriguing.--Gavin Bridge, Durham University

<p><br>Compellingly presented and enlivened by fascinating archival research, Huber's arguments about the 'ecology of politics' and the centrality of oil to the making of 'entrepreneurial life' are important and intriguing.<br><br>--Gavin Bridge, Durham University<br>

Author Information

Matthew T. Huber is assistant professor of geography at the Maxwell School of Syracuse University.

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