"Living Oil is a work of environmental cultural studies that engages with a wide spectrum of cultural forms, from museum exhibits and oil industry tours to poetry, documentary film, fiction, still ...

Vernacular authority in the oil field -- Collaborative authority : nineteenth-century foundations of petroleum geology -- Contested knowledge -- Shared authority : practical oil men and professional ...

University of Illinois English professor Jamie L. Jones examines the energy transition from whale oil to fossil fuels and the continuing influence of whaling in her new book “Rendered Obsolete: The ...