Together with Peder Ressem Østring, a PhD candidate in Human Geography, Sandal will present some of the exciting work on North Sea petrocultures happening at UiO right now.
Sandal's PhD project – Bodies of oil – foregrounds bodily encounters with petroleum oil in its various forms and associated infrastructures, by exploring how interactions between bodies and oil are represented in Norwegian contemporary literature and theatre. The dissertation asks: How do bodily and affective connections to oil manifest in novels, poems, dramas and theatre performances, and how do the depicted relationships between body and oil influence possible transitions from oil to other forms of energy? In this presentation, Sandal will discuss both literary and theatrical examples that reveal the trans-corporeal (Alaimo 2010) connections and entanglements between human bodies and oil, and the implications of understanding representations of such relationships as expressions of trans-corporeality.
More information about the event can be found on the Oil & Society website.
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