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Postcolonial Speculative Fiction

Blogs about Petrofiction

Petrofiction--a unit that examines petroculture (gas and oil culture) in relation to speculative fiction narratives concerning oil companies' economic imperialism and environmental destruction. Other texts reflect the scarcity of fuel in developing countries and the ways that scarcity influences their transportation, their economies and their ecology. Because petrofiction is a particular focus because of an article that a student and I are writing, many of these blogs focus on the relationship between the West's gas and oil culture and the ways that Western companies' economic dominance are played out in African nations and the Caribbean.

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A woman walks along an oil pipeline near Shell's Utorogu flow station in Warri A woman walks along an oil pipeline near Shell's Utorogu flow station in Warri, Nigeria, Sunday, Jan. 15, 2006. Nigerian troops battled militia fighters in swamps around a Royal Dutch Shell oil platform that militants attacked at dawn Sunday, the third assault on Shell oil facilities in less than a week in the troubled region. Shell confirmed the attack on the Benisede oil platform in the southern oil-rich Niger Delta and said some of its staff had been injured and taken to hospital. The company also said it had begun evacuating personnel from vulnerable facilities in the region because of worsening security. (AP Photo/George Osodi)