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--0000000000001502a6059723408a Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable *please circulate* (and apologies for cross-postings) - - - Call for Papers Petrocultures 2020: Transformations <https://petrocultures2020.wixsite.com/transformations> Stavanger, Norway August 26-29, 2020 *Deadlines* (full instructions below) *15 December 2020: *Pre-Formed Panels, Workshops, or Roundtables *20 January 2020*: Individual Papers All submissions and inquiries can be sent to: [email protected] - - - *Confirmed keynotes:* *Stephanie LeMenager*, Barbara and Carlisle Moore Professor of English and Environmental Studies, University of Oregon *Cyril Obi*, Program Director for the African Peacebuilding Network (APN) and the Next Generation Social Sciences in Africa program *Michael Watts*, Professor Emeritus of Geography and Development Studies at the University of California, Berkeley *Gisa Weszkalnys*, Associate professor of Anthropology, London School of Economics *petrocultures2020* We live in turbulent times, and the role of petroleum is at the heart of global and local political debate. Indeed, a transition to a world without oil as its primary source of fuel and energy is needed if we want to reach the international climate targets, but the feasibility, realism and not least timing is strongly debated. Oil will indeed come to an end, but whether the closing date is set by emptied reservoirs, greener alternatives, or political decisions, is still to be determined. Recognizing that the =E2=80=9Cage of oil=E2=80=9D is being challenged, petr= ocultures2020 invites scholars and artists, journalists and activists, politicians and business actors to critically engage in the debate and the alternatives. The conference will be held at the Norwegian Petroleum Museum and a nearby conference venue in Stavanger, the energy capital of Norway. In petrocultures2020 we will host presentations, exhibits and conversations regarding the transformations needed to influence the transition from our current culture and dependency on oil. Looming over these discussions we recognize the wealth and progress enabled by our exploitation and use of oil. We acknowledge the technical and structural solutions developed and renewable transitions initiated by parts of the petroleum industry. We also observe the linkages that exist between the burning of fossil fuels, human induced climate change and differing levels of socio-environmental conflict. We thus emphasize oil=E2=80=99s dual role as the basis of prosper= ity and implication in environmental destruction and global conflict. Accepting this we aim to create a forum for a constructive exchange about the way green transition initiatives are narrated =E2=80=93 including the way oil i= s narrated in the past, present and future =E2=80=93 across social and politi= cal divides. It is also of interest to investigate how the petroleum industry can/will be a part of this transition, and what consequences the transition will have for the workers presently depending on the industry. Worker participation in the industry has historically and may well also in the future be a central aspect to reduce the inherent conflicts of a transition= . Under the banners of 5 thematic sections, petrocultures2020 seeks to advance conversations about the multiple dimensions of oil. We do so, recognizing that oil is not only as a source of energetic power, but of political, economic and social power. It is in this light we question oil= =E2=80=99s significance and remaining power in an era of impending transformation. *themes* *oil:narratives.* From fairy tales to curses, from celebratory tales of pioneers to dismal accounts of victims, oil has inspired contrasting narratives around the world. These encompass origins, belonging, identity, progress and development, for oil has been rendered in ways that matter to not only oil companies and governments, but to most people on the planet. It has helped found our world and continues to modulate it, establishing not only the present of the people of the world, but also their past and future. This section invites scholars to engage with oil as a catalyst for narratives that have framed nations, corporations, groups and individuals. We seek contributions that grapple with the forms that narratives take around oil, that ponder how they shape history and the ways in which they shape imaginaries of post-petroleum worlds. *oil:nature.* Oil has served as the main catalyst for the 20th century=E2= =80=99s economic growth and exploitation of natural resources. Oil has re-defined our relationship to and understanding of the nature-culture divide. Extractive frontiers have continuously expanded, inspiring the recent scientific proposal that we are now living in a new geological epoch in which humans have left an indelible impact on the planet i.e. the Anthropocene. In this section we invite papers and presentations that seek to explore this symbolic proposal and the possibility of it signalling the need for a profound change in human-nature relations. We wish to encourage thought and discussion of its impacts on personal identity, and ramifications for how we address pollution, social justice, public health and rights to land, water streams and seascapes. *oil:conflict.* Numerous historical and contemporary events =E2=80=93 from = the Chaco War to recent Saudi bombings in Yemen =E2=80=93 remind us that oil ha= s been and remains a catalyst of conflicts. International wars, civil war, criminal violence and varying forms of socio-environmental contestation are linked to control of oil production, indicating oil=E2=80=99s influence acr= oss scales and temporalities. We invite scholars to reopen and reframe taken-for-granted assumptions about the resource curse, and to consider anew the significance of oil in geopolitics, economic development and alliances over extractive energy sources. We provide a space for scholars who work on violent contexts and aim to attract analysts who focus on the dynamics of militancy and alternative forms of socio-political and legal action to question oil governance. While inviting papers that reveal the inner workings of large-scale conflicts, we also anticipate papers that unpack how social movements and community campaigns oppose, benefit and tame oil production and exploration =E2=80=93 frequently in the face of rep= ressive prosecution and potential assassination. *oil:work.* While scholarship on the petroleum industry is vast, research on oil workers and their communities is rather limited. Yet, oil workers are intrinsic to an understanding of oil cultures as well as the politics of oil. Their history is as old and tortuous as the history of commodified oil, hence this section invites papers that analyse the embedding of labour histories of oil in wider global histories of labour. On the one hand, oil workers are relatively few and difficult to organise, considering the economic and technological intensity of the petroleum industry and the physical infrastructure, on the other, oil workers and their organisations have played important roles in democratic transitions and economic struggles. Papers on all kinds of cultural and political expression of oil, work and workers are welcome, as are those that tackle how oil workers constitute themselves as groups and in trade unions, how their work schedules influence their social lives, and how their trade interacts with their situated social status. We open for discussions and exploration on the role of workers in the petroleum industries in a green transition. *oil:visions* invites all papers that plumb visions of the cultural and historical transformations wrought by the oil industry, and interrogate transformations away from oil based societies. These visions can be artistic, critical or otherwise creative, and can refer to the past, present, or future, including solarpunk and post-apocalyptic visions of desirable futures. We welcome contributions that explore how literature, film, the visual arts, and other narrative and aesthetic forms of expression render visible phenomena around oil and the many transformations that exist in ontological kinship with it. Papers will draw out how the arts visualize, channel and evoke concerns and enthusiasm about justice, progress, technology, ecology, prosperity, scarcity, abundance and capital in an age of transformation. Ingrained and reflected here is the vital question of how visions of oil =E2=80=93 past, present and future =E2=80=93= shape the politics of transformation in the present. *Individual Papers:* Please submit a 400 word (max) abstract that identifies the themes your paper responds to along with a 200 word (max) bio by *20 January 2020*. *Pre-Formed Panels, Workshops, or Roundtables:* Please submit a two page panel description that identifies the themes the panel responds to as well as the institution, research group, or network organizing the panel, workshop, or roundtable by *15 December 2019*. Panels must also include 250 word abstracts and brief bios for the individual papers that comprise the panel. All submissions and inquiries can be sent to the organizers' email: [email protected]. Please follow the conference website here <https://petrocultures2020.wixsite.com/transformations> for more details and updates. Jordan *Jordan B. Kinder, PhD* Research Director Petrocultures Research Group Futures Energy Systems, University of Alberta [email protected] *After Oil* <http://afteroil.ca/> // *Petrocultures* <http://petrocultures.com/> // Just Powers <http://justpowers.ca/> // Futur= e Energy Systems <https://futureenergysystems.ca/> https://jbkinder.github.io/ =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D General list info and FAQ: http://comm.umn.edu/~grodman/cultstud.html --0000000000001502a6059723408a Content-Type: text/html; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <div dir=3D"ltr"><div dir=3D"ltr"><div dir=3D"ltr"><div dir=3D"ltr"><div di= r=3D"ltr"><p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size= :medium;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><b>= <span style=3D"font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)">please cir= culate<span></span></span></b></p><p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"margin:0c= m 0cm 0.0001pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(0,0,= 0)"><span style=3D"font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)">(and a= pologies for cross-postings)<br><font size=3D"3">- - -<span></span></font><= /span></p><p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size= :medium;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><sp= an style=3D"font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)"><br></span></= p><p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:medium;= font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style= =3D"font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)">Call for Papers<span>= </span></span></p><p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;f= ont-size:medium;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(0,0= ,0)"><span style=3D"font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)">=C2= =A0</span></p><p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-= family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style=3D"f= ont-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)"><a href=3D"https://petrocu= ltures2020.wixsite.com/transformations"><font size=3D"4">Petrocultures 2020= : Transformations</font></a><font size=3D"3"><span></span></font></span></p= ><p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:medium;f= ont-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style= =3D"font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)">Stavanger, Norway<spa= n></span></span></p><p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt= ;font-size:medium;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(0= ,0,0)"><span style=3D"font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)">Aug= ust 26-29, 2020</span></p><p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"margin:0cm 0cm 0.= 0001pt;font-size:medium;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color= :rgb(0,0,0)"><span style=3D"color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,sans-seri= f"><br></span></p><p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;f= ont-size:medium;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(0,0= ,0)"><span style=3D"color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><u>De= adlines</u>=C2=A0(full instructions below)</span></p><p class=3D"MsoNormal"= style=3D"margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:medium;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font = face=3D"arial, sans-serif"><b>15 December 2020:=C2=A0</b>Pre-Formed Panels,= Workshops, or Roundtables</font><span style=3D"font-family:Arial,sans-seri= f;color:rgb(34,34,34)"><br></span></p><p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"margi= n:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:medium;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font face=3D"arial, = sans-serif"><b>20 January 2020</b>: Individual Papers<br></font></p><p clas= s=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:medium;font-fami= ly:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style=3D"color= :rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><br></span></p><p class=3D"Mso= Normal" style=3D"margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:medium;font-family:"= ;Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style=3D"font-size:11p= t;font-family:Helvetica;color:rgb(35,31,32)">All submissions and inquiries = can be sent to:=C2=A0<a href=3D"mailto:[email protected]">petrocu= [email protected]</a><span></span></span></p><p class=3D"MsoNormal" styl= e=3D"margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:medium;font-family:"Times New R= oman",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style=3D"font-size:11pt;font-famil= y:Helvetica;color:rgb(35,31,32)"><span><br></span></span></p><p class=3D"Ms= oNormal" style=3D"margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:medium;font-family:&quo= t;Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style=3D"font-size:11= pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:rgb(35,31,32)"><span>- - -=C2=A0</span></spa= n></p><p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:med= ium;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></p= ><p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:medium;f= ont-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style= =3D"font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)"><u>Confirmed keynotes= :</u><span></span></span></p><p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"margin:0cm 0cm= 0.0001pt;font-size:medium;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;co= lor:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style=3D"font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34= ,34)">=C2=A0</span></p><p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"margin:0cm 0cm 0.000= 1pt;font-size:medium;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rg= b(0,0,0)"><b><span lang=3D"EN-GB" style=3D"font-size:11pt;font-family:Calib= ri,sans-serif;color:rgb(35,31,32)">Stephanie LeMenager</span></b><span lang= =3D"EN-GB" style=3D"font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb= (35,31,32)">, Barbara and Carlisle Moore Professor of English and Environme= ntal Studies, University of Oregon<span></span></span></p><p class=3D"MsoNo= rmal" style=3D"margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:medium;font-family:"T= imes New Roman",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style=3D"font-size:11pt;= font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(35,31,32)"><span>=C2=A0</span></sp= an></p><p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:me= dium;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><b><sp= an lang=3D"EN-GB" style=3D"font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;co= lor:rgb(35,31,32)">Cyril Obi</span></b><span lang=3D"EN-GB" style=3D"font-s= ize:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(35,31,32)">, Program Dire= ctor for the African Peacebuilding Network (APN) and the Next Generation So= cial Sciences in Africa program<span></span></span></p><p class=3D"MsoNorma= l" style=3D"margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:medium;font-family:"Time= s New Roman",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style=3D"font-size:11pt;fon= t-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(35,31,32)"><span>=C2=A0</span></span>= </p><p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:mediu= m;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><b><span = lang=3D"EN-GB" style=3D"font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color= :rgb(35,31,32)">Michael Watts</span></b><span lang=3D"EN-GB" style=3D"font-= size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(35,31,32)">,=C2=A0</span= ><span lang=3D"EN-GB" style=3D"font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-seri= f;color:rgb(34,34,34)">Professor=C2=A0</span><span lang=3D"EN-GB" style=3D"= font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(35,31,32)">E</span>= <span lang=3D"EN-GB" style=3D"font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif= ;color:rgb(34,34,34)">meritus of Geography and Development Studies at the U= niversity of California, Berkeley<span></span></span></p><p class=3D"MsoNor= mal" style=3D"margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:medium;font-family:"Ti= mes New Roman",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style=3D"font-size:11pt;f= ont-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(35,31,32)"><span>=C2=A0</span></spa= n></p><p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:med= ium;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><b><spa= n lang=3D"EN-GB" style=3D"font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;col= or:rgb(34,34,34)">Gisa Weszkalnys</span></b><span lang=3D"EN-GB" style=3D"f= ont-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)">, Associa= te professor of Anthropology, London School of Economics</span><span style= =3D"font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(35,31,32)"><spa= n></span></span></p><p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt= ;font-size:medium;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(0= ,0,0)"><span style=3D"font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)">=C2= =A0</span></p><p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-= size:medium;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"= ><span style=3D"font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)">=C2=A0</s= pan></p><p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:m= edium;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font face=3D"arial, sans-serif"><u>petrocultures20= 20</u></font></p><p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;fo= nt-size:medium;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(0,0,= 0)"><span style=3D"font-size:11pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:rgb(35,31,32)= ">We live in turbulent times, and the role of petroleum is at the heart of = global and local political debate. Indeed, a transition to a world without = oil as its primary source of fuel and energy is needed if we want to reach = the international climate targets, but the feasibility, realism and not lea= st timing is strongly debated. Oil will indeed come to an end, but whether = the closing date is set by emptied reservoirs, greener alternatives, or pol= itical decisions, is still to be determined. Recognizing that the =E2=80=9C= age of oil=E2=80=9D is being challenged, petrocultures2020 invites scholars= and artists, journalists and activists, politicians and business actors to= critically engage in the debate and the alternatives. The conference will = be held at the Norwegian Petroleum Museum and a nearby conference venue in = Stavanger, the energy capital of Norway.<span></span></span></p><p class=3D= "MsoNormal" style=3D"margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:medium;font-family:&= quot;Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style=3D"font-size= :11pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:rgb(35,31,32)"><span>=C2=A0</span></span>= </p><p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"margin:0cm 0cm 12pt;font-size:medium;fo= nt-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style= =3D"font-size:11pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:rgb(35,31,32)">In petrocultu= res2020 we will host presentations, exhibits and conversations regarding th= e transformations needed to influence the transition from our current cultu= re and dependency on oil. Looming over these discussions we recognize the w= ealth and progress enabled by our exploitation and use of oil. We acknowled= ge the technical and structural solutions developed and renewable transitio= ns initiated by parts of the petroleum industry. We also observe the linkag= es that exist between the burning of fossil fuels, human induced climate ch= ange and differing levels of socio-environmental conflict. We thus emphasiz= e oil=E2=80=99s dual role as the basis of prosperity and implication in env= ironmental destruction and global conflict. Accepting this we aim to create= a forum for a constructive exchange about the way green transition initiat= ives are narrated =E2=80=93 including the way oil is narrated in the past, = present and future =E2=80=93 across social and political divides. It is als= o of interest to investigate how the petroleum industry can/will be a part = of this transition, and what consequences the transition will have for the = workers presently depending on the industry. Worker participation in the in= dustry has historically and may well also in the future be a central aspect= to reduce the inherent conflicts of a transition.<br><br>Under the banners= of 5 thematic sections, petrocultures2020 seeks to advance conversations a= bout the multiple dimensions of oil. We do so, recognizing that oil is not = only as a source of energetic power, but of political, economic and social = power. It is in this light we question oil=E2=80=99s significance and remai= ning power in an era of impending transformation.<br><br><b><u>themes<br></= u></b><br><b>oil:narratives.</b>=C2=A0From fairy tales to curses, from cele= bratory tales of pioneers to dismal accounts of victims, oil has inspired c= ontrasting narratives around the world. These encompass origins, belonging,= identity, progress and development, for oil has been rendered in ways that= matter to not only oil companies and governments, but to most people on th= e planet. It has helped found our world and continues to modulate it, estab= lishing not only the present of the people of the world, but also their pas= t and future. This section invites scholars to engage with oil as a catalys= t for narratives that have framed nations, corporations, groups and individ= uals. We seek contributions that grapple with the forms that narratives tak= e around oil, that ponder how they shape history and the ways in which they= shape imaginaries of post-petroleum worlds.<br><br><b>oil:nature.</b>=C2= =A0Oil has served as the main catalyst for the 20th century=E2=80=99s econo= mic growth and exploitation of natural resources. Oil has re-defined our re= lationship to and understanding of the nature-culture divide. Extractive fr= ontiers have continuously expanded, inspiring the recent scientific proposa= l that we are now living in a new geological epoch in which humans have lef= t an indelible impact on the planet i.e. the Anthropocene. In this section = we invite papers and presentations that seek to explore this symbolic propo= sal and the possibility of it signalling the need for a profound change in = human-nature relations. We wish to encourage thought and discussion of its = impacts on personal identity, and ramifications for how we address pollutio= n, social justice, public health and rights to land, water streams and seas= capes.<br>=C2=A0<br><b>oil:conflict.</b>=C2=A0Numerous historical and conte= mporary events =E2=80=93 from the Chaco War to recent Saudi bombings in Yem= en =E2=80=93 remind us that oil has been and remains a catalyst of conflict= s. International wars, civil war, criminal violence and varying forms of so= cio-environmental contestation are linked to control of oil production, ind= icating oil=E2=80=99s influence across scales and temporalities. We invite = scholars to reopen and reframe taken-for-granted assumptions about the reso= urce curse, and to consider anew the significance of oil in geopolitics, ec= onomic development and alliances over extractive energy sources. We provide= a space for scholars who work on violent contexts and aim to attract analy= sts who focus on the dynamics of militancy and alternative forms of socio-p= olitical and legal action to question oil governance. While inviting papers= that reveal the inner workings of large-scale conflicts, we also anticipat= e papers that unpack how social movements and community campaigns oppose, b= enefit and tame oil production and exploration =E2=80=93 frequently in the = face of repressive prosecution and potential assassination.<br><br><b>oil:w= ork.</b>=C2=A0While scholarship on the petroleum industry is vast, research= on oil workers and their communities is rather limited. Yet, oil workers a= re intrinsic to an understanding of oil cultures as well as the politics of= oil. Their history is as old and tortuous as the history of commodified oi= l, hence this section invites papers that analyse the embedding of labour h= istories of oil in wider global histories of labour. On the one hand, oil w= orkers are relatively few and difficult to organise, considering the econom= ic and technological intensity of the petroleum industry and the physical i= nfrastructure, on the other, oil workers and their organisations have playe= d important roles in democratic transitions and economic struggles. Papers = on all kinds of cultural and political expression of oil, work and workers = are welcome, as are those that tackle how oil workers constitute themselves= as groups and in trade unions, how their work schedules influence their so= cial lives, and how their trade interacts with their situated social status= . We open for discussions and exploration on the role of workers in the pet= roleum industries in a green transition.<br><br><b>oil:visions</b>=C2=A0inv= ites all papers that plumb visions of the cultural and historical transform= ations wrought by the oil industry, and interrogate transformations away fr= om oil based societies. These visions can be artistic, critical or otherwis= e creative, and can refer to the past, present, or future, including solarp= unk and post-apocalyptic visions of desirable futures. We welcome contribut= ions that explore how literature, film, the visual arts, and other narrativ= e and aesthetic forms of expression render visible phenomena around oil and= the many transformations that exist in ontological kinship with it. Papers= will draw out how the arts visualize, channel and evoke concerns and enthu= siasm about justice, progress, technology, ecology, prosperity, scarcity, a= bundance and capital in an age of transformation. Ingrained and reflected h= ere is the vital question of how visions of oil =E2=80=93 past, present and= future =E2=80=93 shape the politics of transformation in the present.<span= ></span></span></p><p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;= font-size:medium;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(0,= 0,0)"><u><span style=3D"font-size:11pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:rgb(35,3= 1,32)">Individual Papers:</span></u><span style=3D"font-size:11pt;font-fami= ly:Helvetica;color:rgb(35,31,32)">=C2=A0Please submit a 400 word (max) abst= ract that identifies the themes your paper responds to along with a 200 wor= d (max) bio by <b>20 January 2020</b>.<br><br><u>Pre-Formed Panels, Worksho= ps, or Roundtables:</u>=C2=A0Please submit a two page panel description tha= t identifies the themes the panel responds to as well as the institution, r= esearch group, or network organizing the panel, workshop, or roundtable by = <b>15 December 2019</b>. Panels must also include 250 word abstracts and br= ief bios for the individual papers that comprise the panel.<br><br>All subm= issions and inquiries can be sent to the organizers' email:=C2=A0<a hre= f=3D"mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</a>.<s= pan></span></span></p><p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001= pt;font-size:medium;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb= (0,0,0)"><span style=3D"font-size:11pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:rgb(35,3= 1,32)"><span>=C2=A0</span></span></p><p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"margin= :0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:medium;font-family:"Times New Roman",= serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style=3D"font-size:11pt;font-family:Helvetica= ;color:rgb(35,31,32)">Please follow the conference website=C2=A0</span><spa= n lang=3D"EN-US"><a href=3D"https://petrocultures2020.wixsite.com/transform= ations" target=3D"_blank" title=3D"https://petrocultures2020.wixsite.com/tr= ansformations" style=3D"color:rgb(149,79,114)"><span lang=3D"EN-US" style= =3D"font-size:11pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:rgb(16,129,247)"><span lang= =3D"EN-US">here</span></span></a></span><span style=3D"font-size:11pt;font-= family:Helvetica;color:rgb(35,31,32)">=C2=A0for more details and updates.<s= pan></span></span></p><p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001= pt;font-size:medium;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb= (0,0,0)"><span style=3D"font-size:11pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:rgb(35,3= 1,32)"><span>=C2=A0</span></span></p><p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"margin= :0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:medium;font-family:"Times New Roman",= serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style=3D"font-size:11pt;font-family:Helvetica= ;color:rgb(35,31,32)">Jordan=C2=A0=C2=A0<span></span></span></p><p class=3D= "MsoNormal" style=3D"margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:medium;font-family:&= quot;Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><b><span style=3D"font-s= ize:7.5pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:rgb(35,31,32)">Jordan B. 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