| dc.contributor.author | Wall, Karen | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2013-07-09T20:49:40Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2013-07-09T20:49:40Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2013-07-09T20:49:40Z | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/2149/3373 | |
| dc.description | The paper presented, “’Sharpest Knives in the Drawer’: Culture at the Intersection of Oil and State”, is an expanded version of a chapter written for a book collection on Oil and Democracy currently under review with AUP (Eds. L Stefanick and M. Shrivasteva). The presentation also drew on previous work in the area of Alberta cultural history, and visual arts in particular. The text was supplemented for the presentation with slides of historical and contemporary works created with the oil industry as subject matter and as context of production. Compilation of this visual presentation helped to develop some of the ideas behind the theoretical framework and supplemented discussion to expand upon ideas. These ideas will be developed further in subsequent work on the topic. Conference participation was valuable in allowing new perspectives on the theme of the panel and on my own paper from an audience composed mainly of political scientists, which is not usually a primary area of my own research. Two of the audience members also approached me later with instances of oil industry visual culture that they had collected or remarked upon, which I will acquire for my project. | en |
| dc.description.abstract | The infusion of the petroleum industry into the social and cultural imaginary goes deep in Alberta, where the oil economy and provincial governments have together shaped discourses of prosperity, identity and citizenship for generations. Cultural production and consumption is deeply implicated in these processes, and art has been instrumental as well as oppositional in the shaping of meanings around environment, natural resources, and extractive industries. This paper considers the potentially paradoxical role of the visual arts in practices of democratic dissent and social change in the context of oil capitalism. | en |
| dc.language.iso | en | en |
| dc.relation.ispartofseries | 92.927.G1423; | |
| dc.subject | Petroleum industry | en |
| dc.subject | Oil capitalism | en |
| dc.title | Sharpest Knives in the Drawer: Culture at the Intersection of Oil and State | en |
| dc.type | Presentation | en |
