Abstract
Advancing relational accounts of ‘resource-making’ processes by deploying insights from science and technology studies, this article outlines crucial new lines of inquiry for geographical research on unconventional fossil fuels. The exploitation of various carbon-rich substitutes for hydrocarbons has rapidly expanded over the last two decades, to become a highly contentious issue which augments scientific dissensus and generates new collective engagements with the subsurface. The article invites geographers to examine the epistemically and politically transformative potential of such resource-making controversies in terms of reconfiguring: the production of geoscientific knowledge, anticipation of post-conventional energy systems, and temporal strategies of (de)economizing extractive futures.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 333-356 |
Number of pages | 24 |
Journal | Progress in Human Geography |
Volume | 44 |
Issue number | 2 |
Early online date | 20 Feb 2019 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 1 Apr 2020 |
Keywords
- anticipation
- controversies
- economization
- fracking
- geopolitics
- materiality
- resources
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Geography, Planning and Development