Energizing Neoliberalism: The 1970s Energy Crisis and the Making of Modern America

How the 1970s energy crisis facilitated a neoliberal shift in US political culture.In Energizing Neoliberalism, Caleb Wellum...
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Energizing Neoliberalism: The 1970s Energy Crisis and the Making of Modern America by Wellum, Caleb

Energizing Neoliberalism: The 1970s Energy Crisis and the Making of Modern America

$214.98

Energizing Neoliberalism: The 1970s Energy Crisis and the Making of Modern America

$214.98
Author: Caleb Wellum
Format: Hardcover
Language: English

How the 1970s energy crisis facilitated a neoliberal shift in US political culture.

In Energizing Neoliberalism, Caleb Wellum offers a provocative account of how the 1970s energy crisis helped to recreate postwar America. Rather than think of the crisis as the obvious outcome of the decade's "oil shocks," Wellum unpacks the cultural construction of a crisis of energy across different sectors of society, from presidents, policy experts, and environmentalists to filmmakers, economists, and oil futures traders. He shows how the dominant meanings ascribed to the 1970s energy crisis helped to energize neoliberal visions of renewed abundance and power through free market values and approaches to energy.

Deeply researched in federal archives, expert discourse, and popular culture, Energizing Neoliberalism demonstrates the central role that energy crisis narratives played in America's neoliberal turn. Wellum traces the roots of the crisis to the consumption practices and cultural narratives spawned by the petrocultural politics of Cold War capitalism. In a series of illuminating case studies--including 1970s energy conservation debates, popular car films, and the creation of oil futures trading--Wellum chronicles the consolidation of a neoliberal capitalist order in the United States through an energy politics marked by anxious futurity, petro-populist sentiment, and financialized energy markets. He shows how experiences of energy shortages and fears of future energy crises unsettled American national identity and power yet also informed Reagan-era confidence in free markets and US global leadership.

In taking a cultural approach to the 1970s energy crisis, Wellum offers a challenging meditation on the status of "crisis" in modern history, contemporary life, and critical thought and how we rely on crises to make sense of the world.



Author: Caleb Wellum
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 10/17/2023
Pages: 264
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.24lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.75d
ISBN: 9781421447186

About the Author

Caleb Wellum (HAMILTON, ON) is an assistant professor of US history at the University of Toronto, Mississauga.




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