{"product_id":"petroturfing-refining-canadian-oil-through-social-media-paperback-softback-9781517914332","title":"Petroturfing; Refining Canadian Oil Through Social Media (Paperback \/ softback) 9781517914332","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003ePetroturfing\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eRefining Canadian Oil Through Social Media\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eJordan B. Kinder (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781517914332\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 11 June 2024\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e288 pages, 11 black and white illustrations\u003cbr\u003e21.6 x 14 x 1.3 cm, 0.34 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e \"Through the enormous explanatory power of ‘petroturfing,’ Jordan B. Kinder names and theorizes the hybrid engines of Canadian petroculture-resource extraction, settler colonialism, environmental racism, and social media-and their ill effects at planetary scale. Brilliantly revealing pro-oil’s concerted hypocrisies and social media strategies to misinform the public and grease the elbows of ‘fossil fascist creep,’ this is a profound and necessary book.\"-Janet Walker, coeditor of \u003ci\u003eSustainable Media: Critical Approaches to Media and Environment\u003c\/i\u003e and coeditor-in-chief of \u003ci\u003eMedia+Environment\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e   \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \"Jordan B. Kinder’s \u003ci\u003ePetroturfing\u003c\/i\u003e​ offers great insight into an underdeveloped aspect of the cultural study of energy, the ‘oil culture wars’ sponsored in social media by Canada’s (and the United States’) alt-right that undermine just transitions to renewable energy and economic dignity.\"-Stephanie LeMenager, author of \u003ci\u003eLiving Oil: Petroleum Culture in the American Century\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e   \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \"A rich but demanding book.\"-\u003ci\u003eLiterary Review of Canada\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e   \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \"\u003ci\u003ePetroturfing\u003c\/i\u003e is a pathbreaking work that challenges us to rethink the role of social media in shaping public discourse and policy.\"-\u003ci\u003eCanadian Geographies\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e   \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e   \u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHow social media has become a critical tool for advancing the interests of the Canadian oil industry\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e   \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003ePetroturfing\u003c\/i\u003e presents an incisive look into how Canada’s pro-oil movement has leveraged social media to rebrand the extractive economy as a positive force. Adapting its title from the concept of astroturfing, which refers to the practice of disguising political and corporate media campaigns as grassroots movements, the book exposes the consequences of this mutually informed relationship between social media and environmental politics. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e   \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Since the early 2010s, an increasingly influential network of pro-oil groups, organizations, and campaigns has harnessed social media strategies originally developed by independent environmental organizations in order to undermine resistance to the fossil fuel industry. Situating these actions within the broader oil culture wars that have developed as an outgrowth of contemporary right-wing media, \u003ci\u003ePetroturfing\u003c\/i\u003e details how this coalition of groups is working to reform the public view of oil extraction as something socially, economically, and ecologically beneficial.  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e   \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e By uncovering these concerted efforts to influence the “energy consciousness,” Jordan B. Kinder reveals the deep divide between Canada’s environmentally progressive reputation and the economic interests of its layers of government and private companies operating within its borders. Drawing attention to the structures underlying online political expression, \u003ci\u003ePetroturfing\u003c\/i\u003e highlights the limitations of social media networks in the work of promoting environmental justice and contributing to a more equitable future. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e Contents \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Introduction \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e 1. From Dirty to Ethical: Igniting the Oil Culture Wars \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e 2. Petroculture’s Promise: Oil Executive Epistemologies and the Economic Imaginary \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e 3. Resource Hetero- and Homonationalism: The Petrosexual Imaginary \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e 4. Reconciling Extraction: The Settler Colonial Imaginary \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e 5. Sustaining Petrocultures: Extractive Landscapes, Forces of Production, and the Postenvironmentalist \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Imaginary \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e 6. From the Highway to the Legislature: Fossil Fascist Creep \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Conclusion: Exiting the Trenches of the Oil Culture Wars \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Acknowledgments \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Notes \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Index \u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Univ Of Minnesota Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52523156209944,"sku":"9781517914332","price":21.56,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/petroturfing-refining-canadian-oil-through-social-media-paperback-softback-9781517914332","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}