<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><br><br><div dir="ltr">Sent from my iPhone</div><div dir="ltr"><br>Begin forwarded message:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><b>From:</b> "Palm, Michael William" <mpalm@email.unc.edu><br><b>Date:</b> June 13, 2023 at 19:22:54 PDT<br><b>To:</b> CULTSTUD-L@lists.umn.edu<br><b>Subject:</b> <b>[CULTSTUD-L] Petrocultures 2024 LA: CFP</b><br><b>Reply-To:</b> A listserv devoted to Cultural Studies <CULTSTUD-L@lists.umn.edu><br><br></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr">
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We are delighted to have Los Angeles as our host city since LA epitomizes many of the paradoxes and precarities of early 21st-century petroculture. Before it became a media and entertainment capital of the world, Los Angeles was an oil town, with the spectacle
of derricks occupying many of its treasured beaches. Over the course of the 20th century, LA evolved into a quintessential petro-city, famous for its endless freeways, traffic jams, smog, and consumer culture–and less famous for refineries, pipelines, pumpjacks,
and container ships that are key features of the land- and waterscape. </div>
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LA remains an oil town today. There are 26 oil and gas fields and 5,000 active and idle wells within city limits. But, unlike most petrocities, LA is now taking definite strides toward enacting a post-fossil future. In December 2022, the Los Angeles City Council
voted unanimously to ban new fossil fuel production and to phase out existing wells within 20 years (also unanimously adopted by the Los Angeles County Supervisors). This followed a California state ban on sales of new gasoline-powered cars by 2035. It seems
we are poised for a period of rapid change but questions remain: Is there such a thing as a sustainable megacity, even after oil? How can the abundance of petro- infrastructures be repurposed or retrofit for a post-oil future? Can the post-fossil transition
be leveraged to create more equitable and just urban environments and experiences? Can LA’s media culture help to accelerate the end of petroculture? To what degree does the promise of a cleaner future for LA merely push extractive processes and problems onto
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The central theme for Petrocultures 2024 LA will be "Oil Cities and Post-Oil Cities." We especially invite paper and panel proposals related to the intersection of energy, infrastructure, and urban life, particularly those that seek to draw connections between
Global North and South. But as in Petrocultures events past, we also welcome paper and panel proposals on any topic of current interest in energy and environmental humanities. This is your forum: Tell us where you think energy humanities is going from here.
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<div><span style="font-family:Tahoma"><font size="2" face="Tahoma"><a href="http://comm.unc.edu/people/department-faculty/michael-palm/" target="_blank" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://comm.unc.edu/people/department-faculty/michael-palm/&source=gmail&ust=1650461839945000&usg=AOvVaw2NvHnV7q_lBPAh1rIBeNUQ"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",Times,serif">Michael
Palm</span></a></font><font size="2" face="Tahoma"><font><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",Times,serif"> (he, him)</span></font></font></span>
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<div style="font-family:Tahoma"><font size="2" face="Tahoma"><font><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",Times,serif">University of North Carolina Chapel Hill </span></font></font></div>
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</span><a href="https://unc-ch-aaup.org/" title="https://unc-ch-aaup.org/" target="_blank" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://unc-ch-aaup.org/&source=gmail&ust=1650461839945000&usg=AOvVaw0CNc8QSZ39ckKdiMDHXfNN"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",Times,serif">AAUP
Chapter,</span></a><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",Times,serif"> UNC-CH<br>
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<div style="font-family:Tahoma"><font size="2" face="Tahoma"><font><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",Times,serif">Author of
</span><i><a href="https://www.routledge.com/Technologies-of-Consumer-Labor-A-History-of-Self-Service/Palm/p/book/9780815364740" title="https://www.routledge.com/Technologies-of-Consumer-Labor-A-History-of-Self-Service/Palm/p/book/9780815364740" target="_blank" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.routledge.com/Technologies-of-Consumer-Labor-A-History-of-Self-Service/Palm/p/book/9780815364740&source=gmail&ust=1650461839945000&usg=AOvVaw0d57Ort8JgXwR9Q8yRsI3u"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",Times,serif">Technologies
of Consumer Labor</span></a></i><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",Times,serif">
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<span style="font-family:Tahoma"><font size="2" face="Tahoma"><font><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",Times,serif;font-size:9pt">The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill sits on the land of the Occaneechi, Shakori, Eno, and Sissipahaw peoples</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",Times,serif;font-size:9pt">.
Enslaved people were sold as escheated property to help fund the establishment of UNC, and the labor of enslaved people built UNC-Chapel Hill and undergirded its operations until Emancipation.
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