week 9.1 blog clean
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Cara Daggett ([email protected]
m)Office Hours: Thursday after
class (til @ 7pm) – Gilman atrium
Energy &
Global Politics
October 13, 2015
Class Outline- Course Feedback & Updated Syllabus
- Writing Exercise - Analyze Huber’s Introduction
- Lecture & Discussion- Huber: Oil and the American Way of Life
- Thursday: Oil and Capitalism (Huber); Nuclear Power
- Tuesday: - Papers Due- Nuclear Debates
Writing Analysis - Mitchell1) Stable Context
- ‘Oil Curse’
2) Destabilizing Move- Global Dimensions
3) Thesis- In order to understand the oil curse, we
must go beyond a nation-scale examination of corruption and consider the global dimensions of fossil fuels and their material characteristics.
4) Outline of Argument
Writing Analysis1) Look at Huber intro (pp. 27-30) and analyze
how he sets up the chapter.
2) Identify:- Stable context- Destabilizing move he makes- Key thesis statements
The Great Depression & The ‘American way
of life’The New Deal
- Ideological- Material
Material Foundations of the American Way of Life:
1) Wages2) Housing3) Infrastructure
WagesWagner Act, 1935- ‘Great Compromise’ between labor and
capital
Workers & Purchasing Power
Home Ownership“The broad interests of the nation require that special safeguards should be thrown around home ownership as a guarantee of social and economic stability.” (FDR)
Infrastructure
- Work / Home Divide
- Public Infrastructure of Automobility
The (white, male) American Way of Life
Capital, Labor, EnvironmentGreat ‘class compromise’ of New Deal
=‘enormous ecological compromise’
The Problem for the New Deal
Scarcity
•Workers / Demand
Glut•Oil Supply
Fossil Fuel CapitalismCompetition +
Private Property =
Collapse of Oil Prices
The Contradictions of OilOil Glut vs. Depression ScarcityCapitalist commodity vs. Regulate CompetitionNational Resource vs. State / Property RightsPublic Commitment to build Privatized Lives
The New Deal State Role
Oil
American Way of
Life
Oil & Entrepreneurial Life
“Thus the biggest barrier to energy change is not technical but the cultural and political structures of feeling that have been produced through regimes of energy consumption.” (169)
Political Crises
Great Depression- New Deal
- Regulated OilRESULT:
“cultural politics of entrepreneurial
life”
Climate Change- Compare &
Contrast Crises- A New New
Deal?- A New American
Way of Life?