Nation-Building After Oil
Global Humanist Shoptalk by M L Clark
Episode notes
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-Subliminal-Man.pdfCoughlin, Father Charles. "Twenty Y ...
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