Beyond Petrotoxic Apparatuses

IF 3.1 Q2 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES

Environment and Society-Advances in Research Pub Date : 2021-09-01 DOI:10.3167/ares.2021.120108

Néstor L. Silva

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Abstract

Literature on petroleum and its toxicities understands both as simultaneously social and ecological. Beginning with scholarship on petroleum and its toxicity that captures that simultaneity and mutual constitution, this review defines petrotoxicity as the socioecological toxicity inherent in petroleum commodification. The term signals that petroleum’s social and ecological toxicities are not merely related, but always/already interdependent and inherent in petroleum commodification. Thinking about petrotoxicity this way frames it as something similar to repressive and ideological apparatuses. Althusserian apparatuses shape subjects and spaces in violent and bureaucratic ways. Generating and resisting petrotoxic apparatuses are consistent themes of literature on petrotoxicity. Thinking with Stuart Hall’s critique of Louis Althusser, this review concludes by highlighting scholarship showing the limits of this popular framing of power, ecology, and intervention vis-à-vis petroleum. Long-term fieldwork in North Dakota’s Bakken region informs this article at various points.

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超越石油有毒设备

关于石油及其毒性的文献既理解为社会的，也理解为生态的。从对石油及其毒性的研究开始，这篇综述捕捉到了这种同时性和相互构成，将石油毒性定义为石油商品化所固有的社会生态毒性。该术语表明，石油的社会和生态毒性不仅是相关的，而且在石油商品化中始终/已经相互依存和固有的。以这种方式思考石油毒性将其定义为类似于镇压和意识形态的装置。阿尔都塞机器以暴力和官僚的方式塑造主体和空间。生成和抵抗岩石毒性装置是关于岩石毒性的文献的一致主题。考虑到斯图尔特·霍尔对路易斯·阿尔都塞的批评，这篇综述最后强调了学术界对权力、生态和干预对石油的限制。北达科他州巴肯地区的长期实地调查为本文提供了不同的信息。

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Environment and Society-Advances in Research ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES-

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2.30

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0.00%

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审稿时长

16 weeks

期刊介绍： Environment and Society: Advances in Research is an annual review journal, publishing articles that have been commissioned in response to specific published calls.The field of research on environment and society is growing rapidly and becoming of ever-greater importance not only in academia but also in policy circles and for the public at large. This growth reflects the urgency of debate and the pace and scale of change with respect to the water crisis, deforestation, biodiversity loss, the looming energy crisis, nascent resource wars, environmental refugees, climate change, and environmental justice, which are just some of the many compelling challenges facing society today and in the future. It also reflects the richness and insights of scholarship exploring diverse cultural forms, social phenomena, and political-economic formations in which society and nature are intricately intertwined, if not indistinguishable. As a forum to address these issues, we are delighted to present an important peer-reviewed annual: Environment and Society: Advances in Research. Through this journal we hope to stimulate advanced research and action on these and other critical issues and encourage international communication and exchange among all relevant disciplines. Environment and Society publishes critical reviews of the latest research literature on environmental studies, including subjects of theoretical, methodological, substantive, and applied significance. Articles also survey the literature regionally and thematically and reflect the work of anthropologists, geographers, environmental scientists, and human ecologists from all parts of the world in order to internationalize the conversations within environmental anthropology, environmental geography, and other environmentally oriented social sciences. The publication will appeal to academic, research, and policy-making audiences alike.