“Jodidísimos”: The Local Politics of Hydrocarbon Acceptance in Colombia’s Eastern Plains

Silva, Néstor L.

doi:10.1353/lag.2018.0044

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“…How the petroleum-based shaping of space and history generates hydrocarbon-reliant subjects and spaces in ways redolent of repression has been studied in Trinidad and Tobago (Hughes 2017;Jobson 2018), Argentina (Shever 2012), Nigeria (Adunbi 2013), and the United States (Bond 2013;Huber 2013;Seiler 2008). Other research analyzes petrotoxic subject-and space-making as overtly violent repression (Gill 2016;Sawyer 2004;Silva 2018;Watts 2008).…”

Section: Petrotoxicity As Repressive Apparatusmentioning

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“…Th e same can be true of the politics and analytics of denouncing petroleum pollution (Fiske 2018;Lu et al 2017). In that sense, the crisis narrative can function as precursor to corporate social responsibility and community investment practices that oil assemblages already use to mitigate petrotoxicity without having to eliminate it (Appel 2019;Bond 2013;Rogers 2015;Silva 2018).…”

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Beyond Petrotoxic Apparatuses

Silva

2021

Environment and Society

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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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