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Imre Szeman
Who will lead the transition from fossil fueldependent societies into renewable energy futures?
Energy transition is crucial to the struggle against climate change. But even while embracing the death of…
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The author examines the complex relationship between literature and politics by exploring the production of nationalist literature in the former British empire. Taking as case studies the British Caribbean, Nigeria…
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Brings together key essays by Imre Szeman, a leading scholar in the field of energy humanities and a critical voice in debates about globalization and neoliberalism. Szeman’s most important and…
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Offers a provocative look at oil’s firm grip on American politics and everyday lives. This book brings together essays and artwork produced in a collaborative environment to stimulate new ways…
Contributors include: Margaret Atwood, Paolo Bacigalupi, Lesley Battler, Ursula Biemann, Dominic Boyer, Italo Calvino, Warren Cariou, Dipesh Chakrabarty, Una Chaudhuri, Claire Colebrook, Stephen Collis, Erik M. Conway, Amy De'Ath, Adam…
In the shadow of climate change, it is common to presume that solar energy is the big solution to our energy problems. It is a fuel source of infinite supply…
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Eric Cazdyn,Imre Szeman
After Globalization offers a new way of thinking about globalization – both what it was and how it still operates as a social narrative. In lively and unflinching prose, the…
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Imre Szeman,Susie O'Brien
Popular Culture: A User s Guide, International Edition ventures beyond the history of pop culture to give readers the vocabulary and tools to address and analyze the contemporary cultural landscape…
In lively and unflinching prose, Eric Cazdyn and Imre Szeman argue that contemporary thought about the world is disabled by a fatal flaw: the inability to think an after to…
Cultural Theory presents a comprehensive collection of the essential readings that have shaped and defined the field of contemporary cultural theory.
Offers a collection of the readings that have shaped and defined the field of contemporary cultural theory.
This special issue of explores the meaning(s) of globalization for the practice of literary studies and for the concept of literature itself
Imre Szeman,Petrocultures Research Group
Explores the social, cultural and political changes needed to make possible a full-scale transition from fossil fuels to new forms of energy. Written collectively by participants in the first After…
An anthology that brings work by contemporary Canadian cultural analysts together with that of an earlier generation, including Harold Cardinal, Northrup Frye, Harold Innis, and Marshall McLuhan.
Jennifer Wenzel,Patricia Yaeger
A collection of brief reflections on keywords related to energy, including the various substances and forces with which humans have produced energy, and their past, present, and future implications for…
Simon Orpana
A graphic novel that confronts our habits, narratives, and fantasies head-on to help
break our petroleum dependency
What if the biggest barriers to responding to climate change are not technological…
Suitable for students and scholars of literary theory and philosophical reflection on literature and culture, this title offers an overview of the most important thinkers and topics in the field…
A wide-ranging interdisciplinary study of oil and energy culture.
This Companion addresses the contemporary transformation of critical and cultural theory, with special emphasis on the way debates in the field have changed in recent decades.
The Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism has become the indispensable resource for scholars and students of literary theory and discourse. The long-awaited second edition includes 48 new…
Suitable for students and scholars of literary theory and for philosophical reflection on literature and culture, this book is an overview of the important thinkers and topics in the field…
Offers a multifaceted perspective on how global changes in the organization of power have transformed the ability of individuals and communities to create their own meanings.
There are very few figures in history that have exerted as much and as varied an influence as Karl Marx. His work represents an unrivalled intervention into fields as various…
This volume brings together works written by international theorists since the fall of the Berlin Wall, showing how today’s crisis-ridden global capitalism is making Marxist theory more relevant and necessary…
Brings together contributions from established and merging scholars in a number of different disciplines who each examine the concept of culture as it is understood and deployed within their respective…
Pierre Dardot (Independent scholar, France),Christian Laval (Paris Nanterre University, France)
Around the globe, contemporary protest movements are contesting the oligarchic appropriation of natural resources, public services, and shared networks of knowledge and communication. These struggles raise the same fundamental demand…
The work of Pierre Bourdieu has had an enormous impact on research in fields as diverse as aesthetics, education, anthropology, and sociology. This is a collection of essays focusing on…
