Nation-Building After Oil

In this first miniseries of Season 2, we've been exploring "Petronationalism": the way corporate overlap with state enterprise around the world has created a situation of oil imperialism that underpins a great deal of national and international trauma over the last 150 years. What could we do if we were no longer reliant on, and shaping national myths around, hydrocarbon economies? What would our next steps be, with respect to notions of national identity, without global power plays framed by fossil fuel dominance?REFERENCESBallard, J. G. "The Subliminal Man", New Worlds. 1963.https://readerslibrary.org/wp-....content/uploads/The- Father Charles. "Twenty Years Ago" (audio recording). 1937.https://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/5111/Fisher, Marc. Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?. Zero Books, 2009.https://www.collectiveinkbooks.....com/zer0-books/our- H. Bruce. "What are we to make of J.G. Ballard's Apocalypse?", Voices for the Future: Essays on Major Science Fiction Writers, Volume Two (Ed. Thomas Clareson). Popular Press, 1976.https://www.jgballard.ca/criti....cism/ballard_apocaly Fredric. "Future City", New Left Review. May/June 2003.https://newleftreview.org/issu....es/ii21/articles/fre The Seeds of Time. 2004.http://cup.columbia.edu/book/t....he-seeds-of-time/978 A good review of the volume is available here: https://www.jstor.org/stable/26285557)Robinson, Kim Stanley. The Ministry for the Future. Orbit, Hachette Book Group, 2020.https://www.hachettebookgroup.....com/titles/kim-stanl