The Alexander L. Kielland disaster and its aftermath
The Alexander L. Kielland disaster is the largest industrial accident in Norway to date, and its aftermath has been significant for survivors, next-of-kin and the industry itself.
Politics
Climate Obstruction (Kristoffer Ekberg, Bernhard Forchtner, Martin Hultman, Kristi M. Jylhä, 2023)
Kristoffer Ekberg, Bernhard Forchtner, Martin Hultman, Kristi M. Jylhä, Climate Obstruction: How Denial, Delay and Inaction are Heating the Planet (Abingdon and New York, NY: Routledge, 2023).
Pervasive petrocultures: histories, ideas and practices of fossil fuels
This special issue focuses on the concept of petroculture and its relationship with energy history and energy humanities.
Creating the conditions for Western European petroculture: The Marshall Plan, the politics of the OEEC, and the transition from coal to oil
In the postwar years, petroleum products pervaded more and more aspects of Western European life.
Oil pricing and the challenge of an Arab oil trans-nationalism: Abdallah al-Tariqi and Arab oil globalization
Economics was a major field of struggle for anti-imperialist oil experts and activists.
Contested sovereignties: Oil, labour and the Saharan frontier, 1956-66
Emerging in the midst of a painful war of independence and deeply intertwined with the contested claims to territorial and economic sovereignty, the Algerian oil industry, and its labour force, occupied a unique place at the forefront of the Algerian decolonisation process.
Texas, the Tulsa Race Massacre, and White-supremacist energies: Petroleum workers and anti-Black violence in the Mid-Continent oilfields
This article examines the early twentieth-century oil workforce in the Mid-Continent petroleum region of the United States, focusing on the centrality of white supremacy within the oil industry.
Shifting Narratives of Electricity and Energy in Periods of Transition
This special issue aims at providing nuanced and multi-layered understandings of historical choices regarding, and perceptions of, electric supply and electrical technologies, by taking into consideration diverse groups, actors, agencies, and communities in distinct historical and regional settin
A way out of darkness: Thinking about the future of Spain through the promises of electricity and energy abundance, 1898–1931
This article historicizes electricity and energy abundance and their relation to the reconfiguration of political power in a context of (self-perceived) national decline.
The West German educational reactor SUR-100 and its diplomatically intended export to Latin America
Developed in West Germany in the 1960s, the SIEMENS type SUR-100 zero-power reactor was designed both for educational purposes and as a demonstration object for an engineering discipline still in emergence.