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“Our oil would burn bright til morning:” Geopolitics, resource securitization, and Anglo-American competition for whale oil, 1783–1818
Energy Research & Social Science ( IF 8.514 ) Pub Date : 2021-04-08 , DOI: 10.1016/j.erss.2021.102035
Stefan Andreasson , Timothy J. Ruback

Energy security has become a central focus in social scientific studies of energy resources, and most research on the securitization of energy emphasizes the pivotal role of fossil fuels in shaping geopolitics in the 20th Century. We extend the temporal scope of energy security by conducting a case study of the early 19th Century whale oil industry to demonstrate the ways in which a focus on the human security consequences of energy competition can affect Anglo-American commercial balance of power relations. This case study also demonstrates the significance of the physicality of energy sources in understanding their effect on international affairs. Crucially, whereas the stationary nature, or locational fixity, of natural resources constitutes a defining characteristic of their treatment in the resource curse, resource nationalism and resource conflict literatures, the geographically unbounded nature of whale oil introduces a qualitatively different dynamic. The insights provided by the whale oil industry are instructive not only for understanding the dynamics of securitization of energy but also for considering how the embryonic energy transition towards renewables will reshape geopolitics in the 21st Century.



中文翻译:

“我们的石油将燃烧直到灿烂的早晨:”地缘政治,资源证券化和英美鲸油竞争,1783年至1818年

能源安全已成为能源社会科学研究的中心重点,并且大多数有关能源证券化的研究都强调了化石燃料在20世纪塑造地缘政治中的关键作用。我们通过对19世纪初的鲸油业进行案例研究,扩展能源安全的时间范围,以证明关注能源竞争对人类安全后果的影响方式可能会影响英美商业力量平衡。该案例研究还证明了能源物理性在理解能源对国际事务的影响方面的重要性。至关重要的是,自然资源的固定性质或位置固定性构成了在资源诅咒中对其进行处理的决定性特征,在资源民族主义和资源冲突文献中,鲸油的地理上无限制的性质引入了质的不同动态。鲸油行业提供的见解不仅对理解能源证券化的动态具有指导意义,而且对于考虑21世纪胚芽向可再生能源的过渡将如何重塑地缘政治也具有指导意义。

更新日期:2021-04-09
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