scholarly journals “Blood Petroleum”: True Blood, the BP Oil Spill, and Fictions of Energy/Culture

2012 ◽  
Vol 47 (1) ◽  
pp. 213-229 ◽  
Author(s):  
TED ATKINSON
Keyword(s):  
Oil Spill ◽  
Cultural Production ◽  
Cultural Practice ◽  
Hybrid Energy ◽  
Bp Oil Spill ◽  
Production And Consumption ◽  
The Us ◽  
True Blood ◽  
Excessive Consumption ◽  
A Site

The third season of the HBO series True Blood, set in fictional Bon Temps, Louisiana, aired in a mediascape shaped by coverage of the BP oil spill that wreaked economic and ecological havoc on the US Gulf South during the summer of 2010. A retrospective examination of the series in this context, and against the grain of critical consensus labeling it mere escapism, demonstrates that taking True Blood seriously can yield compelling insights into the US Gulf South as a site in which convergences of the global and the local, of reality and representation, and of energy and cultural production result in the formation of a hybrid: energy/culture. Analysis of the storyline featuring the Vampire King of Mississippi shows how True Blood extends the long-standing cultural practice of making vampires screens for projecting collective desires and anxieties. Through a “camp aesthetic” that weaves into the Vampire King's maniacal pursuit of blood in various forms dire warnings about excessive consumption and environmental apocalypse, True Blood offers fictional ways to make meaning of the actual conditions and consequences of energy production and consumption brought to the surface with great urgency by the BP oil spill.

scholarly journals Share market reaction to the BP oil spill and the US government moratorium on exploration

2012 ◽  
Vol 37 (1) ◽  
pp. 61-76 ◽  
Author(s):  
Seyed Amir Hossein Sabet ◽  
Marie-Anne Cam ◽  
Richard Heaney
Keyword(s):  
Oil Spill ◽  
Market Reaction ◽  
Bp Oil Spill ◽  
The Us ◽  
Us Government

scholarly journals Youth, Music and DIY Careers

2018 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 133-139 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andy Bennett
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Production ◽  
Cultural Practice ◽  
Specific Reference ◽  
Global Context ◽  
Music Making ◽  
Production And Consumption ◽  
The Status ◽  
Cultural Spaces ◽  
Do It Yourself ◽  
Youth Music

Since the 1970s, the concept of DIY (do-it-yourself) culture has evolved from a bluntly resistant statement of independence from dominant forms of capitalist cultural production and dissemination to a more nuanced expression of creative cultural practice. While such practice remains resistant to more mainstream forms of cultural production and consumption it has at the same time evolved a level of professionalism aimed towards ensuring cultural and, where possible, economic sustainability. In a time where the concept of the cultural industries has become commonplace across many regions of the world and where various attempts are being made to co-opt or suppress forms of cultural production based on their perceived value or threat to the status quo, DIY careers become viable ways in which to mark out and maintain DIY cultural spaces as both ethical and aesthetically meaningful. The articles that make up this special issue consider the contemporary significance of DIY careers with specific reference to young people and music-making practices in a global context.

Comparative research on cultural production and consumption

Poetics ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 33 (5-6) ◽  
pp. 253-256 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susanne Janssen ◽  
Richard A. Peterson
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Production ◽  
Comparative Research ◽  
Production And Consumption

Guest Editor’s Introduction

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-6
Author(s):  
Aisha S. Durham ◽  
Wesley Johnson ◽  
Sasha J. Sanders
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Cultural Politics ◽  
Cultural Difference ◽  
Participatory Democracy ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Critical Inquiry ◽  
Culture Model ◽  
The Us ◽  
A Site ◽  
Circuit Of Culture

Florida is a site of critical inquiry and figures prominently in the US American imaginary. The Sunshine State sets the stage for broader conversations about cultural difference, climate change, and participatory democracy. Contributors to this special issue apply the canonical circuit of culture model to address the interrelated nature of culture and power. They provide methodologically thick, fleshy interpretive analyses that privilege experiential, experimental, and embodied approaches to take seriously Florida cultural politics, people, and popular forms.

Is the Great Barrier Reef dead? Satire, death and environmental communication

2021 ◽  
pp. 1329878X2110558
Author(s):  
Kerrie Foxwell-Norton ◽  
Claire Konkes
Keyword(s):  
Great Barrier Reef ◽  
Political Action ◽  
Climate Science ◽  
Environmental Communication ◽  
Public Understanding ◽  
Barrier Reef ◽  
Global Environmental ◽  
The Us ◽  
Climate Action ◽  
A Site

An obituary for the Great Barrier Reef (the Reef) by travel and food writer Rowan Jacobsen (2016) commemorated its ‘lifetime accomplishments’ in Outside, the US outdoor recreational magazine. ‘News’ of the Reef's demise went viral and the economic and political furore that followed was immense. Tourism industries, especially reliant on international arrivals, were impacted as potential visitors accepted the Reef's passing as fact. Politicians scampered to reassure Australians and the globe that the Reef was indeed still alive and beautiful. In the Australian public sphere, climate science deniers, alongside those advocating for climate action, collided over the impacts of global warming to Reef health. Subsequent mass coral bleaching events in 2016, 2017 and 2020 sustained at the very least, the idea that the Reef was, or was soon to be, dead. Our paper follows the idea of a ‘dead Reef’ in the context of historical and recent debates about Reef protection. Using Google Trends, we identify Jacobsen's article as the source of increased Australian and global ideation of a ‘dead Reef’. As a site of local and global environmental communication – where human relations to nature are expressed and understood - the Reef holds extraordinary story telling power. At the current junction then, the way we communicate the Reef is critical to public understanding and political action on climate change. We conclude Jacobsen's article is an example of the problems of satirical communication, serving to amplify existing conflicts and undermine efforts to foster to climate action.

The Ruse of Repair

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patricia Stuelke
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Cultural Production ◽  
Queer Studies ◽  
Self Care ◽  
Reading Practices ◽  
Structural Racism ◽  
Neoliberal Capitalism ◽  
Neoliberal Governance ◽  
The Us ◽  
Us Government

Since the 1990s, literary and queer studies scholars have eschewed Marxist and Foucauldian critique and hailed the reparative mode of criticism as a more humane and humble way of approaching literature and culture. The reparative turn has traveled far beyond the academy, influencing how people imagine justice, solidarity, and social change. In The Ruse of Repair, Patricia Stuelke locates the reparative turn's hidden history in the failed struggle against US empire and neoliberal capitalism in the 1970s and 1980s. She shows how feminist, antiracist, and anti-imperialist liberation movements' visions of connection across difference, practices of self care, and other reparative modes of artistic and cultural production have unintentionally reinforced forms of neoliberal governance. At the same time, the US government and military, universities, and other institutions have appropriated and depoliticized these same techniques to sidestep addressing structural racism and imperialism in more substantive ways. In tracing the reparative turn's complicated and fraught genealogy, Stuelke questions reparative criticism's efficacy in ways that will prompt critics to reevaluate their own reading practices.

scholarly journals ‘What Difference does it Make? Women's Pop Cultural Production and Consumption in Manchester’

2000 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 116-129 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicola Richards ◽  
Katie Milestone
Keyword(s):  
Popular Music ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Cultural Production ◽  
Consumption Patterns ◽  
Cultural Industries ◽  
Production And Consumption ◽  
Gender Characteristics ◽  
Gender Power ◽  
The City ◽  
Experiences Of Women

This paper explores the experiences of women in small cultural businesses and is based upon interviews with women working in a range of contexts in Manchester's popular music sector. The research seeks to promote wider consideration of women's roles in cultural production and consumption. We argue that it is necessary that experiences of production and consumption be understood as inter-related processes. Each part of this process is imbued with particular gender characteristics that can serve to reinforce existing patterns and hierarchies. We explore the ways in which female leisure and consumption patterns have been marginalised and how this in turn shapes cultural production. This process influences career choices but it is also reinforced through the integration of consumption into the cultural workplace. Practices often associated with the sector, such as the blurring of work and leisure and ‘networking’, appear to be understood and operated in significantly different ways by women. As cultural industries such as popular music are predicated upon the colonisation of urban space we explore the use of the city and the particular character of Manchester's music scene. We conclude that, despite the existence of highly contingent and individualised identities, significant gender power relations remain evident. These are particularly clear in discussion of the performative and sexualised aspects of the job.

scholarly journals On the probability distribution of daily streamflow in the United States

2017 ◽  
Vol 21 (6) ◽  
pp. 3093-3103 ◽  
Author(s):  
Annalise G. Blum ◽  
Stacey A. Archfield ◽  
Richard M. Vogel
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Probability Distribution ◽  
The United States ◽  
Good Representation ◽  
Lognormal Distributions ◽  
Daily Streamflow ◽  
The Us ◽  
Flow Duration Curves ◽  
A Site ◽  
Physiographic Regions

Abstract. Daily streamflows are often represented by flow duration curves (FDCs), which illustrate the frequency with which flows are equaled or exceeded. FDCs have had broad applications across both operational and research hydrology for decades; however, modeling FDCs has proven elusive. Daily streamflow is a complex time series with flow values ranging over many orders of magnitude. The identification of a probability distribution that can approximate daily streamflow would improve understanding of the behavior of daily flows and the ability to estimate FDCs at ungaged river locations. Comparisons of modeled and empirical FDCs at nearly 400 unregulated, perennial streams illustrate that the four-parameter kappa distribution provides a very good representation of daily streamflow across the majority of physiographic regions in the conterminous United States (US). Further, for some regions of the US, the three-parameter generalized Pareto and lognormal distributions also provide a good approximation to FDCs. Similar results are found for the period of record FDCs, representing the long-term hydrologic regime at a site, and median annual FDCs, representing the behavior of flows in a typical year.

What Lies Beneath: the BP Oil Spill and the Need for New Response Models

2015 ◽  
Vol 34 (3) ◽  
pp. 587-596 ◽  
Author(s):  
Priscilla D. Allen ◽  
Christopher F. D’Elia
Keyword(s):  
Oil Spill ◽  
Response Models ◽  
Bp Oil Spill
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