Over a barrel: Cultural political economy and oil imperialism

The Geopolitics of American Insecurity: Terror, Power and Foreign Policy

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 181-196

  Dalby, Simon ^a   Paterson, Matthew ^b  

^a CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203884218     Document Type: Chapter

References (42)

1. Peter Taylor, The Way the Modern World Works: World Hegemony to World Impasse (Chichester: John Wiley, 1996), p. 219.
2. See, for example, David Campbell, "The Biopolitics of Security: Oil Empire and the Sports Utility Vehicle," American Quarterly, Vol. 57, No. 3 (2005), pp. 943-72;
3. Steve Vanderheiden, "Assessing the Case against the SUV," Environmental Politics, Vol. 15, No. 1 (2006), pp. 23-40.
4. See Keith Bradsher, High and Mighty: The Dangerous Rise of the SUV (New York: Public Affairs, 2002), chapters 7 through 9.
5. One paper drawing on the SUV in this way offers the broad metaphor of the "SUV model of citizenship," thus denoting a highly abstracted, but at the same time expansive, notion of individual rights. See Don Mitchell, "The SUV model of Citizenship: Floating Bubbles, Buffer Zones, and the Rise of the Purely Atomic Individual," Political Geography, Vol. 24, No. 1 (2005), pp. 77-100.
6. See Campbell, "The Biopolitics of Security."
7. John Bacher, Petrotyranny (Toronto: Dundurn Press & Science for Peace, 2000).
8. See also Vanderheiden, "Assessing the Case against the SUV."
9. See Paul Virilio, Speed and Politics (New York: Semiotext(e), 1986);
10. Matthew Paterson, Automobile Politics: Ecology and Cultural Political Economy (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007), chapter 5.
11. Peter Newman and Jeffrey Kenworthy, Sustainability and Cities: Overcoming Automobile Dependence (Washington, DC: Island Press, 1999).
12. Shimshon Bichler and Jonathan Nitzan, "Dominant Capital and New Wars," Journal of World Systems Research, Vol. 10, No. 2 (2004), pp. 255-327.
13. Michael Klare, Blood and Oil: The Dangers and Consequences of America's Growing Dependence on Imported Petroleum (New York: Metropolitan, 2004).
14. One of the few to make the oil-to-cars imperialism link explicit is Hosea Jaffe. See his Automobile, Pétrole, Impérialisme [The Automobile, Oil, and Imperialism] (Lyon: Parangon, 2004).
15. See Michael Klare, "Blood for Oil: The Bush-Cheney Energy Strategy," in eds. Leo Panitch and Colin Leys, Socialist Register, 2004: The New Imperial Challenge (New York: Monthly Review Press, 2003), pp. 166-85.
16. For a similar argument, see Linda McQuaig, It's the Crude, Dude: War, Big Oil, and the Fight for the Planet (Toronto: Doubleday, 2004).
17. See Andrew Bacevich, The New American Militarism: How Americans Are Seduced by War (New York: Oxford University Press, 2005).
18. David Harvey, The New Imperialism (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003), p. 19.
19. Anatol Lieven, America, Right or Wrong: An Anatomy of American Nationalism (New York: Oxford University Press, 2004).
20. See Lewis Mumford, Technics and Civilization (New York: Harcourt Brace, 1934).
21. For a fuller elaboration of automobility as a complex, see Paterson, Automobile Politics.
22. This is an argument that we develop in more detail in Matthew Paterson and Simon Dalby, "Empire's Ecological Tyreprints," Environmental Politics, Vol. 15, No. 1 (2006), pp. 1-22.
23. More generally, on the emergence of these developments in car production and markets, see David Gartman, Auto Opium: A Social History of American Automobile Design (London: Routledge, 1994);
24. F. C. Deyo, The Social Reconstruction of the World's Automobile Industry (London: Macmillan, 1996).
25. James Howard Kunstler, The Long Emergency: Surviving the End of Oil, Climate Change, and Other Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Century (New York: Grove, 2005).
26. On ecological modernization and the car industry, see once again Paterson, Automobile Politics, chapter 7.
27. On this topic, see also Arthur Mol, Globalization and Environmental Reform: The Ecological Modernization of the Global Economy (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1998).
28. Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri, Empire (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2000).
29. Reiterated in Jakub Grygiel, Great Powers and Geopolitical Change (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006).
30. See The Iraq Study Group Report: The Way Forward-A New Approach (New York: Vintage, 2006).
31. See Simon Dalby, "Regions, Strategies, and Empire in the Global War on Terror," Geopolitics, Vol. 12, No. 4 (2007), pp. 586-606.
32. See Erich Fromm, To Have or To Be? (New York: Harper and Row, 1976).
33. See Amory Lovins, "Energy Strategy: The Road Not Taken," Foreign Affairs, Vol. 55 (1976), pp. 65-96;
34. see also Amory Lovins, Soft Energy Paths: Toward a Durable Peace (Cambridge: Ballinger, 1977)
35. Amory Lovins and L. Hunter Lovins, Brittle Power: Energy Strategy for National Security (Andover, MA: Brick House, 1982).
36. Niall Ferguson, Colossus: The Price of America's Empire (New York: Penguin, 2004), p. 29.
37. See Paul Hawkens, Amory Lovins, and L. Hunter Lovins, Natural Capitalism: The Next Industrial Revolution (London: Earthscan, 2000), chapter 2.
38. Lovins has made this argument repeatedly. See, for example, Amory Lovins and L. Hunter Lovins, "Make Fuel Efficiency Our Gulf Strategy," New York Times, December 13, 1990, p. A15.
39. Friedman's case is summarized in Thomas L. Friedman, "The Greening of Geopolitics," New York Times Magazine, April 15, 2007, pp. 40-51, 67, and 71-2.
40. See Jaffe, Automobile, Pétrole, Impérialisme, p. 58.
41. See the numerous materials on Lovins' Rocky Mountain Institute website, available at www.rmi.org.
42. See Philippe Le Billon, Fuelling War: Natural Resources and Armed Conflict (Oxford: Routledge/International Institute for Strategic Studies, 2005).