HEИндивидуална стипендия2022–2025

Petro-Ambiguity · Oil, Environment and National Identity in the Bruneian Imaginary

„Хоризонт Европа“ — Действия „Мария Склодовска-Кюри“

Период: 2022-09-01 → 2025-08-31
Финансиране от ЕС: 226 751 €
Участници: 1
Схема: HORIZON-TMA-MSCA-PF-EF

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Накратко на български

Връзката между петрола и националната идентичност в Бруней се анализира чрез литература, изкуство и филми. Разбирането на тези културни нагласи помага при създаването на по-справедливи стратегии за преход към чиста енергия и борба с климатичните промени.

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Кратко обяснение, генерирано от езиков модел по текста на CORDIS. Оригиналът е по-долу.

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Petro-Ambiguity: Oil, Environment and National Identity in the Bruneian Imaginary

The Petro-Ambiguity project examined how oil shapes cultural identity, environmental imagination, and social attitudes toward climate change in Brunei Darussalam, one of the world’s most oil-dependent nations. Although energy transition policies are now global priorities, public and cultural perceptions of oil vary widely across societies. Understanding these perceptions is crucial to designing fair and effective responses to climate change. The project addressed this problem by studying Bruneian literature, artworks, film, and public discourse to uncover how oil is represented and remembered, and how it influences the nation’s relationship with its environment. It introduced the concept of “petro-ambiguity” to describe the tension between dependence on oil and the desire for environmental responsibility as well as to capture the diversity of lived experiences of oil that necessitates varied and inclusive decarbonising and energy transition solutions. The overall objectives were to: 1. Analyse Brunei’s petroculture through literary, visual, and policy materials; 2. Develop petro-ambiguity as a theoretical framework for understanding emotional and cultural attachments to oil; 3. Compare local and global narratives about energy, environment, and responsibility; and 4. Disseminate findings to both academic and public audiences, strengthening dialogue between Europe and Southeast Asia on energy and culture.

Текст от CORDIS, на английски · Данни: CORDIS, © Европейски съюз

Цел на проекта

Petro-Ambiguity: Oil, Environment and National Identity in the Bruneian Imaginary will uncover diverse new narratives of the Anthropocene beyond the Global North. In close collaboration with my supervisor, Prof. Sissel Furuseth, head of the Critical Petroaesthetics research group (CP) into which I will be integrated, I will investigate the stories of oil in Brunei, whose oil-based economy has allowed for the preservation of its rainforest and a generous citizen welfare system. Its story is distinct to those that currently dominate the energy humanities, characterized by economic instability, environmental injustice and political violence. Through vital training and interactions with my supervisor and CP researchers, I will develop a synthesized approach informed by material ecocriticism, scale reading and intersectionality to analyse contemporary cultural forms in the Bruneian petroculture. I will introduce petro-ambiguity as a ground-breaking concept that resists universalizing oil encounters by articulating the intra-actions between individual, socio-cultural, national and global perceptions of oil. By moving beyond the Global North, this project addresses inequities within local and global energy-climate discourses, an urgent and crucial undertaking for a just energy transition for all. This project will engage in high-impact dissemination activities to enhance understanding of sociocultural factors behind climate (in)action. Petro-Ambiguity will be bolstered by feedback from renowned energy-climate experts on my advisory board, Prof. Stephanie LeMenager (University of Oregon), Prof. Adeline Johns-Putra (Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University) and Prof. Indra Øverland (Norwegian Institute of International Affairs). The Oslo School of Environmental Humanities based at the University of Oslo will create the perfect environment as host for cutting-edge research groups on energy and environment to which Petro-Ambiguity will add an essential non-European angle.

Оригинален текст от CORDIS (на английски).

Участници

UNIVERSITETET I OSLO · OsloКоординаторНорвегия