Time for oil: competing petrotemporalities in Norway's Lofote/Vesteralen/Senja Archipelago

Kristoffersen, Berit; Bridge, Gavin; Steinberg, Philip

Time for oil: competing petrotemporalities in Norway's Lofote/Vesteralen/Senja Archipelago

Kristoffersen, Berit; Bridge, Gavin; Steinberg, Philip

Authors

Berit Kristoffersen

Professor Gavin Bridge g.j.bridge@durham.ac.uk
Professor

Professor Philip Steinberg philip.steinberg@durham.ac.uk
Professor

Contributors

Fiona Polack
Editor

Danine Farquharson
Editor

Abstract

This chapter analyses how the petroleum industry operates across multiple temporal frames. The authors then go on to illustrate how, when communities debate their petroleum futures, the “anticipatory temporalities” of petroleum abundance, technology, price, and demand are contrasted with alternate temporalities that, in many cases, fail to align with those articulated by the oil industry. Through a reflection on historic and ongoing debates over offshore oil production in Norway’s Lofoten/Vesterålen/Senja (LoVeSe) region, they propose that debates over petroleum futures are not simply about struggles over shared space, exemplified in ‘oil vs community,’ ‘oil vs fisheries,’ or ‘oil vs environment’ narratives; they are also debates about the intersections and alignments of different temporalities and the meaning and significance of time.

Citation

Kristoffersen, B., Bridge, G., & Steinberg, P. (2022). Time for oil: competing petrotemporalities in Norway's Lofote/Vesteralen/Senja Archipelago. In F. Polack, & D. Farquharson (Eds.), Cold Water Oil: Offshore Petroleum Cultures (176-193). Routledge

Acceptance Date	Aug 31, 2021
Publication Date	2022
Deposit Date	Sep 30, 2021
Publisher	Routledge
Pages	176-193
Series Title	Routledge Environmental Humanities
Edition	1st ed.
Book Title	Cold Water Oil: Offshore Petroleum Cultures
Chapter Number	9
Publisher URL	https://www.routledge.com/Cold-Water-Oil-Offshore-Petroleum-Cultures/Farquharson-Polack/p/book/9780367903923