The Ethics of Oil: Finance Moralities and Environmental Politics in the Global Oil Economy

Project Information

ENERGY ETHICS

Grant agreement ID: 715146

DOI 10.3030/715146

Project closed

EC signature date 16 June 2017

Start date 1 July 2017

End date 30 June 2023

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost € 1 498 052,00

EU contribution € 1 498 052,00

Coordinated by

THE UNIVERSITY COURT OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS
United Kingdom

Publications

Peer reviewed articles (11)

Risk and responsibility: Private equity financiers and the US shale revolution

Author(s): Sean Field
Published in: Economic Anthropology, Issue 9(1), 2021, Page(s) 47-59, ISSN 2330-4847
Publisher: Society for Economic Anthropology
DOI: 10.1002/sea2.12221

Contentious connections: infrastructure, dignity, and collective life in Accra, Ghana

Author(s): Pauline Destree
Published in: Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Issue Volume 28, Issue 1, 2021, Page(s) 92-113, ISSN 1467-9655
Publisher: Wiley
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9655.13654

Value as ethics: Climate change, crisis, and the struggle for the future

Author(s): Sean Field
Published in: Economic Anthropology, Issue Volume 10, Issue 2, 2023, Page(s) 177-185, ISSN 2330-4847
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
DOI: 10.1002/sea2.12286

Power and precariousness in the expert hierarchies of the US hydrocarbon industry

Author(s): Sean Field
Published in: Critique of Anthropology, Issue 41/3, 2021, Page(s) 303-319, ISSN 0308-275X
Publisher: SAGE Publications
DOI: 10.1177/0308275x211038608

Projects of devotion: energy exploration and moral ambition in the cosmoeconomy of oil and gas in the Western United States

Author(s): Mette M. High
Published in: Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Issue 25/S1, 2019, Page(s) 29-46, ISSN 1359-0987
Publisher: Royal Anthropological Institute
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9655.13013

Introduction: The ethical constitution of energy dilemmas

Author(s): Mette M. High, Jessica M. Smith
Published in: Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Issue 25/S1, 2019, Page(s) 9-28, ISSN 1359-0987
Publisher: Royal Anthropological Institute
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9655.13012

Carbon capital: The lexicon and allegories of US hydrocarbon finance

Author(s): Sean Field
Published in: Economy and Society, Issue Volume 51, issue 2, 2022, ISSN 0308-5147
Publisher: Routledge
DOI: 10.1080/03085147.2022.2030606

Utopias of Oil: Private Equity and Entrepreneurial Ambition in the U.S. Oil and Gas Industry

Author(s): Mette M. High
Published in: Cultural Anthropology, Issue Vol. 37, no. 4, 2022, Page(s) 738-763, ISSN 0886-7356
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
DOI: 10.14506/ca37.4.06

‘We work for the Devil’: Oil extraction, kinship and the fantasy of time on the offshore frontier

Author(s): Pauline Destrée
Published in: Critique of Anthropology, Issue 43(1), 2023, Page(s) 24-43, ISSN 0308-275X
Publisher: SAGE Publications
DOI: 10.1177/0308275x231156713

Uncertainty by design: Preparing for the future with scenario technology By Limor Samimian-Darash. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2022. 185 pp.

Author(s): Sean Field
Published in: American Ethnologist, Issue Volume 50, Issue 2, 2023, Page(s) 334-335, ISSN 1548-1425
Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
DOI: 10.1111/amet.13157

Elite energy transitions: Leaders and experts promoting renewable energy futures in Norway

Author(s): Anna Rauter
Published in: Energy Research & Social Science, Issue Volume 88, June, 2022, ISSN 2214-6296
Publisher: Elsevier Limited
DOI: 10.1016/j.erss.2022.102509

Other (28)

Written Evidence: Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Committee - Inquiry on Energy pricing and the future of the Energy Market

Author(s): Sean Field, Mette Marie High, Emilka Skrzypek
Published in: Written Evidence, Issue 28 March 2022, 2022
Publisher: UK Parliament

THE COMEBACK OF THE PLASTIC STRAW: ARE WE SACRIFICING SUSTAINABILITY IN THE FACE OF COVID-19 SAFETY?

Author(s): Anna Rauter
Published in: The Energy Blog, Issue 11 October, 2020
Publisher: Centre for Energy Ethics, University of St Andrews

DR METTE HIGH AND THE IMPORTANCE OF CURIOSITY

Author(s): Anna Rauter
Published in: All About Energy, Issue 26th February, 2021
Publisher: The Centre for Energy Ethics, St Andrews

THE WORK OF ACTIVISM

Author(s): Sarah O'Brien
Published in: The Energy Blog, Issue 24 October, 2020
Publisher: Centre for Energy Ethics, University of St Andrews

Comments on the Scottish Government’s Draft Energy Strategy and Just Transition Plan

Author(s): Sean Field*, Adrian Anthony Finch, Nicholas John Gardiner, Mette Marie High, Jessica Hogan, Lethy Krishnan Jagadamma, Emilka Skrzypek
Published in: Written Evidence, 2023
Publisher: Scottish Government

OIL, OIL, WHO WANTS SOME OIL? PART 5: BETTING ON THE FUTURE

Author(s): Sean Field Mette M. High
Published in: The Energy Blog, Issue 21 May, 2021
Publisher: Centre for Energy Ethics, University of St Andrews

Norms and Illegality: Intimate Ethnographies and Politics

Author(s): Sean Field
Published in: American Ethnologist, Issue Volume 49, Issue 1, 2022, Page(s) 134-135, ISSN 1548-1425
Publisher: Wiley
DOI: 10.1111/amet.13055

WORLD CRISIS, ENERGY CRISIS? PART 1. RUPTURE: PREDICTIONS, REVELATIONS AND THE ‘NEW NORMAL’

Author(s): Pauline Destrée
Published in: The Energy Blog, Issue 27th May, 2020
Publisher: Centre for Energy Ethics

LUBOMILA JORDANOVA AND THE BUSINESS OF SUSTAINABILITY

Author(s): Anna Rauter
Published in: All About Energy, Issue 19th July, 2021
Publisher: The Centre for Energy Ethics, St Andrews

MAKING ENERGY. PART 1: A CONVERSATION WITH SOLAR-TECH CEO PAUL CHENG OF PLUS RENEWABLES

Author(s): Anna Rauter
Published in: The Energy Blog, Issue 20 January, 2021
Publisher: Centre for Energy Ethics, University of St Andrews

NATURAL GAS IN THE UK, PART 2: POTENTIAL WINTER BLACKOUTS AND THE GRID

Author(s): Sean Field
Published in: The Energy Blog, Issue 19th October, 2022
Publisher: The Centre for Energy Ethics, St Andrews

Electric Car Paradise? Norway's Long Road towards Sustainable Transportation

Author(s): Anna Rauter
Published in: Lithium Worlds, Issue 23rd September, 2021
Publisher: Lithium Worlds

OIL, OIL, WHO WANTS SOME OIL? PART 4: THE BRENT CRUDE COMPLEX

Author(s): Sean Field Mette M. High
Published in: The Energy Blog, Issue 19 Dec, 2020
Publisher: Centre for Energy Ethics, University of St Andrews

OIL, OIL, WHO WANTS SOME OIL? PART 3: ANTICIPATING THE FUTURE AND FINANCIALIZING OIL

Author(s): Sean Field Mette M. High
Published in: The Energy Blog, Issue 2 October, 2020
Publisher: Centre for Energy Ethics, University of St Andrews

OIL, OIL, WHO WANTS SOME OIL? PART 1: REFLECTIONS ON OIL INFRASTRUCTURES AT A TIME OF NEGATIVE OIL PRICE

Author(s): Mette M. High Sean Field
Published in: The Energy Blog, Issue 27 May, 2020
Publisher: Centre for Energy Ethics, University of St Andrews

The struggle for capacity: a historical ethnography of toxicology in Senegal

Author(s): Pauline Destree
Published in: Anthropology Book Forum, Issue 1 November, 2021, ISSN 2380-7725
Publisher: American Anthropological Association

Solar for the Few: Stranded Renewables and Green Enclaves in Ghana

Author(s): Pauline Destree
Published in: Focaal Blog, Issue Special Feature: The Political Power of Energy Futures, 9 April, 2021
Publisher: Focaal

WORLD CRISIS, ENERGY CRISIS? PART 2. OVERCAPACITY: AN ENERGY CRISIS YOU’VE NEVER HEARD OF

Author(s): Pauline Destrée
Published in: The Energy Blog, Issue 13th August, 2020
Publisher: Centre for Energy Ethics, St Andrews

OIL, OIL, WHO WANTS SOME OIL? PART 2: PIPELINES AND OIL PRICES

Author(s): Mette M. High Sean Field
Published in: The Energy Blog, Issue 21 July, 2020
Publisher: The Centre for Energy Ethics, University of St Andrews

HOW TO DO BETTER: CLIMATE AMBITIONS AND ENERGY TRANSITIONS AT THE COP26

Author(s): Mette M. High
Published in: The Energy BLog, Issue 30 November, 2021
Publisher: Centre for Energy Ethics, University of St Andrews

FOLLOWING THE THREADS

Author(s): Sarah O'Brien
Published in: The Energy Blog, Issue 27 May, 2020
Publisher: Centre for Energy Ethics, University of St Andrews

Written evidence: The House of Lords Environment and Climate Change Committee - Inquiry into behaviour change in the context of climate change and the environment

Author(s): Sean Field, Mette Marie High, Emilka Skrzypek
Published in: Written Evidence, Issue 26 January 2022, 2022
Publisher: UK Parliament

ADAM SÉBIRE: CLIMATE CHANGE THROUGH THE ARTIST’S EYE

Author(s): Anna Rauter
Published in: All About Energy, Issue 26th March, 2021
Publisher: The Centre for Energy Ethics, St Andrews

Financialization: Relational approaches

Author(s): Sean Field
Published in: Anthropological Notebooks, Issue Volume 27, Issue 1, 2021, Page(s) S1-S3
Publisher: Slovene Anthropological Society
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5762105

NATURAL GAS IN THE UK, PART 1: INFRASTRUCTURES & GEOPOLITICS

Author(s): Sean Field
Published in: The Energy Blog, Issue 17 September, 2021
Publisher: Centre for Energy Ethics, University of St Andrews

REACTING TO CRISES: CORONAVIRUS FIRST. ECONOMY SECOND. CLIMATE LAST?

Author(s): Anna Rauter
Published in: The Energy Blog, Issue 27 May, 2020
Publisher: Centre for Energy Ethics, University of St Andrews

Changing the conversation on energy at the Centre for Energy Ethics

Author(s): Mette M. High
Published in: Energy Humanities News, Issue 10 December, 2021
Publisher: Energy Humanities

PROFESSOR JOHN IRVINE: HYDROGEN POWER AND AN INTRO TO ENERGY MATERIALS

Author(s): Anna Rauter
Published in: All About Energy, Issue 5th June, 2021
Publisher: The Centre for Energy Ethics, St Andrews