"Beyond Geopolitics: Fossil Fuels and the Social Reproduction of Capitalism": A talk by Matt Huber
Matt Huber argues that the geopolitical fixation on petroleum resources emerges out of historically specific relationships between fossil fuel energy, capitalism, and everyday social reproduction. Making explicit the centrality of fossil energy to social reproduction links the geopolitical geographies of coercion, violence and war to the nationalistic geographies of consent, spatialized freedom, and the "American way of life." Huber received his PhD in Geography from Clark University in 2009.
Matt Huber will be in residence at the IAS during the fall of 2009 with the Environment, Culture, and Sustainability Quadrant.
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