IN3’s Urban Transformation and Global Change Laboratory (TURBA Lab) is pleased to invite you to the Seminar: «Searching for ‘The New Oil’: Pre-emptive hope and post-oil futures in Norway’s oil capital», given by Anders Riel Müller, Associate Professor of City and Regional Planning at the University of Stavanger.
The seminar —part of the Urban Transformation and Global Change Seminar Series— will be held, virtually and in person, on Wednesday, November 22 at 11:00 h (CET) in Room 5 of the Can Jaumandreu (Building U).
Venue
Can Jaumandreu (Building U - Room 5)
Perú, 52
08018 Barcelona
Espanya
When
22/11/2023 11.00h
Organized by
Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, IN3's Urban Transformation and Global Change Laboratory (TURBA Lab)
Program
Abstract
This presentation explores strategies in second-tier cities and regions that constitute highly specialized nodes of the global petroleumscape. The paper high-light the important repair and maintenance work aimed at upholding the petroleumscape taking place in second tier regions who face to be losers as they are highly dependent on oil-revenue. Through the concept of pre-emptive hope, the paper explores how post-oil economic imaginaries uphold the status-quo by extending the present and delimiting alternative futures. Through a case study of Norway’s oil capital Stavanger, the paper discusses how narratives of ‘The New Oil’ offers optimistic narratives of post-oil futures, yet also pre-empt these futures from happening. The New Oil narratives constitute examples of pre-emptive hope as a form of repair and maintenance of the petroleumscape — visions of the future that mandates the need to maintain the present status quo of wealth and privilege, which only oil and gas extraction can provide.
Associate Professor of City and Regional Planning at the University of Stavanger. His main research interest is to understand how imaginaries of progress shape political, economic and cultural relations of production and consumption, with a particular focus on aspects of justice. He is currently leading the Research Network for Smart Sustainable Cities and the research and innovation project Future Energy Hub. He holds a master’s degree in Environmental, Technological and Socio-economic planning and a PhD in Global Studies (Political Economy).