Department seminar: Mette High
The Department of Social Anthropology is happy to announce the upcoming seminar with Dr. Mette High at University of St. Andrews. The title of the lecture is "Project of Devotion: Energy exploration and moral ambition in the cosmoeconomy of oil and gas in the Western United States".
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Seminar paper
This paper considers how people working in the oil and gas industry in Colorado perceive their involvement in energy exploration in relation to broader understandings of devotion, compassion, and outreach. I will argue that although their energy projects may appear to merely echo companies' formal promotional pitches, the oil field and corporate actors' own moral ambitions reveal more-than-human cosmoeconomic visions of oil's potentiality. The paper thus demonstrates how multiple and diverging ethical registers intersect and inform the valuation of oil.
About the lecturer
Dr. Mette High is Lecturer at the Department of Social Anthropology, University of St. Andrews.