Programma

Esploreremo le origini dell'avvento dei combustibili di origine fossile con l'emergere dell'era del carbone, passando per l'era degli idrocarburi, fino alle più recenti tendenze verso le energie da fonte rinnovabile. Questo sarà fatto analizzando le strategie delle grandi potenze, i dibattiti politici e intellettuali sulle fonti energetiche, l'espansione del fordismo e del consumismo, il ruolo delle multinazionali del petrolio, le pressioni derivanti dalla decolonizzazione e dall'emergere del dibattito ambientalista dagli anni Settanta, fino al più recente dibattito sul l'"Antropocene" e la "decarbonizzazione".

Concetti come "maledizione delle risorse", "estrattivismo", "resource curse", "limiti della crescita", "picco del petrolio", "sviluppo sostenibile", saranno discussi e inquadrati nella letteratura accademica (ed eventualmente materiale d'archivio), aggiornati con immagini e documentari.

Il corso è impartito in lingua inglese.

Testi Adottati

Per i "non frequentanti" (3 testi):

1. Manuale:
- Bruce Podobnik, "Global Energy Shifts. Fostering Sustainability in a Turbulent Age"

2. Un testo a scelta tra
- Giuliano Garavini, "The Rise and Fall of OPEC in the 20th Century"
- Adam Hanieh, "Crude Capitalism: Oil, Corporate Power, and the Making of the World Market"
- Stephen G. Gross, "Energy and Power: Germany in the Age of Oil, Atoms, and Climate Change"
- Brett Christophers, "The Price is Wrong: Why Capitalism Won't Save the Planet"

3. Van De Graaf/Sovacool, "Global Energy Politics"

Bibliografia Di Riferimento

Ibrahim AlMuhanna, "Oil Leaders: An Insider's Account of Four Decades of Saudi Arabia and OPEC's Global Energy Policy" Ervand Abrahamian, "Oil Crisis in Iran: From Nationalism to Coup d'Etat" Kate Aronoff, "Overheated: How Capitalism Broke the Planet - and How We can Fight Back" Gretchen Bakke, "The Grid: The Fraying Wires Between Americans and Our Energy Future" J.H. Bamberg, "The History of the British Petroleum Company", Vol.1, Vol2 Basosi/Garavini/Trentin, "Counter-Shock: the Oil Counter-Revolution of the 1980s" Javier Blas and Jack Farchy, "The World for Sale. Money, power and the Traders Who Barter the Earth's Resources" Brett Christophers, "The Price is Wrong: Why Capitalism Won't Save the Planet" Dag Harald Claes, "The Politics of Oil" Jean Baptiste Fressoz, "Sans Transition. Une nouvelle histoire de l'energie" Manucher and Roxane Farmanfarmaian, "Blood and Oil: Memoirs of a Persian Prince" Giuliano Garavini, "The Rise and Fall of OPEC in the 20th Century" Stephen Gross, "Energy and Power: Germany in the Age of Oil, Atoms and Climate Change" Nicholas Georgescu-Rogan, "Energy and Economc Myths" Amitav Ghosh, "The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable" Thane Gustafson, "The Bridge: Natural Gas in a Redivided Europe" Adam Hanieh, "Crude Capitalism: Oil, Corporate Power, and the Making of the World Market" Michael Herb, "The Wages of Oil. Parliaments and Economic Development in Kuwait and the UAE" Jason Hickel, "Less is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World" Per Hogselius, "Red Gas" William Stanley Jevons, "The Coal Question" Daniel Yergin, "The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money and Power" Naomi Klein, "This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate" Leonardo Maugeri, "Beyond the Age of Oil: The Myths, Realities, and Future of Fossil Fuels and Their Alternatives" Paasha Mahdavi, "Power Grab. Political Survival through Extractive Resource Nationalization" Andreas Malm, "Fossil Capital. The Rise of the Steam Power and the Roots of Global Warming" Andreas Malm. "How to Blow Up a Pipeline" Victor McFarland, "Oil Powers: A History of the US-Saudi Alliance" Bernard Mommer, "Global Oil and the Nation State" Bernard Mommer, "Ressources Naturelles et mondialisation: le pétrole et le Venezuela" Bethany McLean, "The Smartest Guys in the Room. The Amazing Rise and Scandalous Fall of Enron" Timothy Mitchell, "Carbon Democracy. Political Power in the Age of Oil" Guillaume Pitron, "the Rare Metals War: the Dark Side of Clean Energy and Digital Technologies" Juan Pablo Pérez Alfonzo, "The Oil Pentagon" Simon Pirani, "Burning Up: A Global History of Fossil Fuels Consumption" Joachim Radkau, "The Age of Ecology: A Global History" Thea Riofrancos, "Resource Radicals. From Petro-Nationalism to Post-Extractivism in Ecuador" Henry Sanderson "Volt Rush: The Winners and Losers in the Race to Go Green" Myrna Santiago, "The Ecology of Oil. Environment, Labour and the Mexican Revolution, 1900-1938" Van De Graaf/ Sovacoool, "Global Enegy Politics" Robert Vitalis, "America's Kingdom. Mythmaking on the Saudi Oil Frontier" Tyler Volk, "CO2 Raising: The World's Greatest Environmental Challenge" William Stanley Jevons, "The Coal Question" Daniel Yergin, "The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money and Power" Naomi Klein, "This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate" Leonardo Maugeri, "Beyond the Age of Oil: The Myths, Realities, and Future of Fossil Fuels and Their Alternatives" Paasha Mahdavi, "Power Grab. Political Survival through Extractive Resource Nationalization" Andreas Malm, "Fossil Capital. The Rise of the Steam Power and the Roots of Global Warming" Andreas Malm. "How to Blow Up a Pipeline" Victor McFarland, "Oil Powers: A History of the US-Saudi Alliance" Bernard Mommer, "Global Oil and the Nation State" Bethany McLean, "The Smartest Guys in the Room. The Amazing Rise and Scandalous Fall of Enron" Timothy Mitchell, "Carbon Democracy. Political Power in the Age of Oil" Jeronim Perovic, "Fuel and Power: Energy, Trade and Russian Foreign Relations from Lenin to Putin" Guillaume Pitron, "the Rare Metals War: the Dark Side of Clean Energy and Digital Technologies" Juan Pablo Pérez Alfonzo, "The Oil Pentagon" Simon Pirani, "Burning Up: A Global History of Fossil Fuels Consumption" Joachim Radkau, "The Age of Ecology: A Global History" Thea Riofrancos, "Resource Radicals. From Petro-Nationalism to Post-Extractivism in Ecuador" Daniela Russ and Thomas Turnbull, "Energy's History. Toward a Global Canon" Henry Sanderson "Volt Rush: The Winners and Losers in the Race to Go Green" Myrna Santiago, "The Ecology of Oil. Environment, Labour and the Mexican Revolution, 1900-1938" Van De Graaf/ Sovacoool, "Global Energy Politics" Robert Vitalis, "Oilcraft: The Myths of Scarcity and Security That Haunt US Energy Policy" Tyler Volk, "CO2 Raising: The World's Greatest Environmental Challenge"

Modalità Frequenza

Obbligatoria (massimo due assenza)

Modalità Valutazione

- Ogni studente dovrà solgere una presentazione in classe; - Ogni studente preparerà per la fine del corso un saggio (massimo 2500 parole) che potrebbe, eventualmente, essere scritto anche sullo stesso argomento della sua presentazione in classe. - L'esame finale sarà orale. Composizione del voto finale: Partecipazione e presentazione in classe: 25% Saggio: 25% Esame finale: 50% Totale: 100%

Programma

Esploreremo le origini dell'avvento dei combustibili di origine fossile con l'emergere dell'era del carbone, passando per l'era degli idrocarburi, fino alle più recenti tendenze verso le energie da fonte rinnovabile. Questo sarà fatto analizzando le strategie delle grandi potenze, i dibattiti politici e intellettuali sulle fonti energetiche, l'espansione del fordismo e del consumismo, il ruolo delle multinazionali del petrolio, le pressioni derivanti dalla decolonizzazione e dall'emergere del dibattito ambientalista dagli anni Settanta, fino al più recente dibattito sul l'"Antropocene" e la "decarbonizzazione".

Concetti come "maledizione delle risorse", "estrattivismo", "resource curse", "limiti della crescita", "picco del petrolio", "sviluppo sostenibile", saranno discussi e inquadrati nella letteratura accademica (ed eventualmente materiale d'archivio), aggiornati con immagini e documentari.

Il corso è impartito in lingua inglese.

Testi Adottati

Per i "non frequentanti" (3 testi):

1. Manuale:
- Bruce Podobnik, "Global Energy Shifts. Fostering Sustainability in a Turbulent Age"

2. Un testo a scelta tra
- Giuliano Garavini, "The Rise and Fall of OPEC in the 20th Century"
- Adam Hanieh, "Crude Capitalism: Oil, Corporate Power, and the Making of the World Market"
- Stephen G. Gross, "Energy and Power: Germany in the Age of Oil, Atoms, and Climate Change"
- Brett Christophers, "The Price is Wrong: Why Capitalism Won't Save the Planet"

3. Van De Graaf/Sovacool, "Global Energy Politics"

Bibliografia Di Riferimento

Ibrahim AlMuhanna, "Oil Leaders: An Insider's Account of Four Decades of Saudi Arabia and OPEC's Global Energy Policy" Ervand Abrahamian, "Oil Crisis in Iran: From Nationalism to Coup d'Etat" Kate Aronoff, "Overheated: How Capitalism Broke the Planet - and How We can Fight Back" Gretchen Bakke, "The Grid: The Fraying Wires Between Americans and Our Energy Future" J.H. Bamberg, "The History of the British Petroleum Company", Vol.1, Vol2 Basosi/Garavini/Trentin, "Counter-Shock: the Oil Counter-Revolution of the 1980s" Javier Blas and Jack Farchy, "The World for Sale. Money, power and the Traders Who Barter the Earth's Resources" Brett Christophers, "The Price is Wrong: Why Capitalism Won't Save the Planet" Dag Harald Claes, "The Politics of Oil" Jean Baptiste Fressoz, "Sans Transition. Une nouvelle histoire de l'energie" Manucher and Roxane Farmanfarmaian, "Blood and Oil: Memoirs of a Persian Prince" Giuliano Garavini, "The Rise and Fall of OPEC in the 20th Century" Stephen Gross, "Energy and Power: Germany in the Age of Oil, Atoms and Climate Change" Nicholas Georgescu-Rogan, "Energy and Economc Myths" Amitav Ghosh, "The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable" Thane Gustafson, "The Bridge: Natural Gas in a Redivided Europe" Adam Hanieh, "Crude Capitalism: Oil, Corporate Power, and the Making of the World Market" Michael Herb, "The Wages of Oil. Parliaments and Economic Development in Kuwait and the UAE" Jason Hickel, "Less is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World" Per Hogselius, "Red Gas" William Stanley Jevons, "The Coal Question" Daniel Yergin, "The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money and Power" Naomi Klein, "This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate" Leonardo Maugeri, "Beyond the Age of Oil: The Myths, Realities, and Future of Fossil Fuels and Their Alternatives" Paasha Mahdavi, "Power Grab. Political Survival through Extractive Resource Nationalization" Andreas Malm, "Fossil Capital. The Rise of the Steam Power and the Roots of Global Warming" Andreas Malm. "How to Blow Up a Pipeline" Victor McFarland, "Oil Powers: A History of the US-Saudi Alliance" Bernard Mommer, "Global Oil and the Nation State" Bernard Mommer, "Ressources Naturelles et mondialisation: le pétrole et le Venezuela" Bethany McLean, "The Smartest Guys in the Room. The Amazing Rise and Scandalous Fall of Enron" Timothy Mitchell, "Carbon Democracy. Political Power in the Age of Oil" Guillaume Pitron, "the Rare Metals War: the Dark Side of Clean Energy and Digital Technologies" Juan Pablo Pérez Alfonzo, "The Oil Pentagon" Simon Pirani, "Burning Up: A Global History of Fossil Fuels Consumption" Joachim Radkau, "The Age of Ecology: A Global History" Thea Riofrancos, "Resource Radicals. From Petro-Nationalism to Post-Extractivism in Ecuador" Henry Sanderson "Volt Rush: The Winners and Losers in the Race to Go Green" Myrna Santiago, "The Ecology of Oil. Environment, Labour and the Mexican Revolution, 1900-1938" Van De Graaf/ Sovacoool, "Global Enegy Politics" Robert Vitalis, "America's Kingdom. Mythmaking on the Saudi Oil Frontier" Tyler Volk, "CO2 Raising: The World's Greatest Environmental Challenge" William Stanley Jevons, "The Coal Question" Daniel Yergin, "The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money and Power" Naomi Klein, "This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate" Leonardo Maugeri, "Beyond the Age of Oil: The Myths, Realities, and Future of Fossil Fuels and Their Alternatives" Paasha Mahdavi, "Power Grab. Political Survival through Extractive Resource Nationalization" Andreas Malm, "Fossil Capital. The Rise of the Steam Power and the Roots of Global Warming" Andreas Malm. "How to Blow Up a Pipeline" Victor McFarland, "Oil Powers: A History of the US-Saudi Alliance" Bernard Mommer, "Global Oil and the Nation State" Bethany McLean, "The Smartest Guys in the Room. The Amazing Rise and Scandalous Fall of Enron" Timothy Mitchell, "Carbon Democracy. Political Power in the Age of Oil" Jeronim Perovic, "Fuel and Power: Energy, Trade and Russian Foreign Relations from Lenin to Putin" Guillaume Pitron, "the Rare Metals War: the Dark Side of Clean Energy and Digital Technologies" Juan Pablo Pérez Alfonzo, "The Oil Pentagon" Simon Pirani, "Burning Up: A Global History of Fossil Fuels Consumption" Joachim Radkau, "The Age of Ecology: A Global History" Thea Riofrancos, "Resource Radicals. From Petro-Nationalism to Post-Extractivism in Ecuador" Daniela Russ and Thomas Turnbull, "Energy's History. Toward a Global Canon" Henry Sanderson "Volt Rush: The Winners and Losers in the Race to Go Green" Myrna Santiago, "The Ecology of Oil. Environment, Labour and the Mexican Revolution, 1900-1938" Van De Graaf/ Sovacoool, "Global Energy Politics" Robert Vitalis, "Oilcraft: The Myths of Scarcity and Security That Haunt US Energy Policy" Tyler Volk, "CO2 Raising: The World's Greatest Environmental Challenge"

Modalità Frequenza

Obbligatoria (massimo due assenza)

Modalità Valutazione

- Ogni studente dovrà solgere una presentazione in classe; - Ogni studente preparerà per la fine del corso un saggio (massimo 2500 parole) che potrebbe, eventualmente, essere scritto anche sullo stesso argomento della sua presentazione in classe. - L'esame finale sarà orale. Composizione del voto finale: Partecipazione e presentazione in classe: 25% Saggio: 25% Esame finale: 50% Totale: 100%