[ATHENA] Appel à contribution - JEH/RHE " Hydrocarbons and societies: histories of labor, social relations, and industrial culture in the oil and gas industry" - numéro spécial

[Radouan Andrea Mounecif <radouan.mounecif AT hotmail.it>]

Chères et Chers collègues, 

Je me permets de transmettre un appel à contribution pour le numéro spécial du Journal of Energy History / Revue d'histoire de l'énergie (JEH/RHE) " Hydrocarbons and societies: histories of labor, social relations, and industrial culture in the oil and gas industry".  

 

L'objectif de cette publication est d’aborder l’histoire des hydrocarbures aux XIXe et XXe siècles en remettant l’élément humain au cœur de l’analyse. Ce numéro spécial souhaite présenter les contributions de chercheurs et jeunes chercheurs qui privilégient des approches d'histoire sociale, histoire du travail, histoire des techniques et qui s'intéressent aux métiers, aux parcours de formation aux relations et aux identités professionnelles. L’étude de l’élément humain est élargie aux circulations des savoirs, à la structuration des réseaux scientifiques et professionnels, aux relations de genre et à l’interaction entre industries, entreprises et environnement. Nous proposons de traiter également l’aspect de la contestation dans le cadre des décolonisations des pays producteurs, de l’émergence de revendications sociales et de l’affirmation de la conscience écologiste. 

 

La parution du numéro spécial est prévue en décembre 2022. Vous pouvez transmettre les propositions de contribution (500 mots et une brève présentation de l'auteur) avant le 1er janvier 2022 à Radouan Mounecif, radouan.mounecif AT hotmail.it et Natasha Pesaran, npesaran AT gmail.com. Vous trouverez le texte intégral de l'appel à contributions et les modalités de soumission sur le site de la revue et ci-dessous.   

Bien cordialement, 

Radouan Andrea Mounecif

[Tél]: +33 (0)7 52 89 01 25

[email] radouan.mounecif AT hotmail.it 

 

Call for Papers  

  

  

Hydrocarbons and societies: histories of labor, social relations, and industrial culture in the oil and gas industry   

  

Journal of Energy History, Special Issue, December 2022  

  

  

Special Issue Editors 

Radouan Mounecif, Sciences Po Paris 

Natasha Pesaran, Columbia University 

  

Workers, engineers, technocrats, and managers have played a central role in the development of the hydrocarbon industry. Concentrated in refineries, oilfields, pipeline stations, off-shore drilling platforms, oil tankers, and gas stations, human labor has played a central role in hydrocarbon history. As well as capital and technology, human workforce has contributed to the development of extraction, production and distribution activities, fostering fossil fuels consumption and shaping the flows of carbon energy. Despite the recent turn in the scholarship away from energy diplomacy and financial revenues, towards the study of what has been termed variously an ‘oil complex’ or ‘oil assemblage’, studies emphasizing the material structures and technical organization of the oil and gas industry are raising attention to the social and labor histories of oil.   

  

The aim of this special issue is to put the human element at the heart of the analysis of the history of hydrocarbons in the 19th and 20th centuries. Drawing on newly available materials in corporate archives and other collections and adopting the approaches of social and cultural history makes it possible to analyse the emergence of oil-related industrial cultures, professional identities, and political contestation in the different sectors of this industry. What kinds of social and cultural encounters shaped processes of oil extraction and consumption? How did hydrocarbon industry jobs become professionalised and diversified? Who are the men and women who worked in this sector? How have they contributed to the development of technical knowledge and expertise in the field of hydrocarbons? What role have workers and labor organizations played in transforming the politics of carbon energy? How have the business strategies pursued by oil executives, notably in areas of marketing and communications, shaped everyday experiences and practices of energy consumption?   

  

We particularly welcome submissions related to the following themes and topics:   

• Technical expertise and the structuring of scientific and professional networks   
• The interaction between the oil and gas industry and the natural environment   
• Processes of decolonization and the emergence of social and environmental demands on the oil industry   

• Urban history and the built environments of oil and gas  
• Labor histories and the lived experiences of workers  
• The role of race and racial strategies of labor management in the development of the industry   
  
    
  
  Submission Details:  
  
    
  
  To have your paper considered for this special issue, please send an abstract of no more than 500 words and a short CV to Radouan Mounecif (radouan.mounecif AT hotmail.it) and Natasha Pesaran (npesaran AT gmail.com) before January 1st, 2022. Abstracts will be reviewed by the co-editors and authors will be notified by January 10th, 2022.  
  
    
  
  Timeline  
  
    
• January 1st, 2022 : deadline for abstract submission  
• January 10th, 2022 :  selection of authors   
• April 15th, 2022 : submission of the first draft  
• April-May 2022 : internal peer reviewing  
• June 1st , 2022 : submission of edited version to the Journal of Energy History  
• June to October 2022: external peer reviewing   
• October-December : copy editing and publication by the Journal of Energy History (early release mode)  
  
   

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