The new edited volume Oil Spaces: Exploring the Global Petroleumscape is a significant contribution to the growing field of historical scholarship focused on the relationships among the world’s primary energy sources (biomass, coal, oil, and gas), commodity flows, and cultural production. The book takes a broad view of petroleum’s “diverse spatial emanations” (7)—defined as spaces of exploration, extraction, distribution, transportation, consumption, and mediation—in describing the physical and social geographies that have accumulated over the past 150 years and that have reinforced our current petroleum path dependency. Drawing on studies conducted by philosopher and sociologist Henri Lefebvre and urban researchers Neil Brenner and Christian Schmid, among others, editor Carola Hein and the contributing authors present the petroleumscape as an analytical model for exploring the circular production of oil-related spaces and their representations around the planet.1 This collection of fifteen essays follows upon a 2017 conference of the same name; marking...
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September 2022
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September 01 2022
Review: Oil Spaces: Exploring the Global Petroleumscape
Carola Hein, ed.
Oil Spaces: Exploring the Global Petroleumscape
New York
: Routledge
, 2022
, 292 pp., 129 b/w illus. $160 (cloth), ISBN 9780367417512; $44.95 (paper), ISBN 9780367417499
Andrew R. Tripp
Andrew R. Tripp
Texas A&M University
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Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians (2022) 81 (3): 387–388.
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Andrew R. Tripp; Review: Oil Spaces: Exploring the Global Petroleumscape. Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 1 September 2022; 81 (3): 387–388. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/jsah.2022.81.3.387
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