{"product_id":"cold-water-oil-fiona-polack-9780367903923","title":"Cold Water Oil: Offshore Petroleum Cultures","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eCold Water Oil: Offshore Petroleum Cultures\u003c\/em\u003e is a collection of essays examining how societies conceive of fossil fuel extraction in the inhospitable but fragile waters of the North Atlantic and Arctic oceans.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWhat happens offshore matters. Currently, over a quarter of the world's oil and gas is produced from beneath the seas. The offshore petroleum industry is thus a crucial point of origin for global carbon emissions, and other environmental harms. \u003ci\u003eCold Water Oil: Offshore Petroleum Cultures\u003c\/i\u003e illuminates ignored histories, influential contemporary narratives, and emerging energy and environmental futures. The volume centres on North Atlantic and Arctic regions; the continuing but often strongly contested pursuit of oil and gas in frigid, tumultuous, and environmentally sensitive seas enforces the lengths to which corporations and governments will go to maintain the centrality of fossil fuels. The book's contributors focus on the cultural, social, and ecological implications of oil and gas extraction in the oceanic territories of Canada, Norway, the UK, Russia, the US, and the Ipiat of Alaska at a time of profound global uncertainty. In conversation with the energy and environmental humanities, and critical ocean studies, \u003ci\u003eCold Water Oil\u003c\/i\u003e considers a region central to debates about climate change and the planet's future. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eCold Water Oil engages students and researchers interested in climate change, energy humanities, critical ocean studies, and North Atlantic and Arctic issues.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Fiona Polack\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 036790392X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780367903923\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Routledge\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/20\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 274\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.91lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.62d","brand":"Fiona Polack","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43988590690559,"sku":"9780367903923","price":48.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_d7ddd01a-c521-4fb2-8958-d19d4818d514.jpg?v=1683295286","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/cold-water-oil-fiona-polack-9780367903923","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}