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• Furuseth, Sissel (2026). Mapping seascapes with Olav Duun's novel Floodtide of Fate. I Felcht, Frederike; Frank, Søren & Ritson, Katie (Red.), The Sea in Nordic Literature. Routledge. ISSN 9781003647638. s. 126–136. doi: 10.4324/9781003647638-12. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  The chapter re-actualises Olav Duun’s classic Floodtide of Fate (Menneske og maktene, 1938) by emphasising how the sea is portrayed in the novel. While psychological, theological, and political-allegorical readings have dominated previous Duun scholarship, this analysis draws attention to the specific physical setting in the Norwegian writer’s final work and interrogates what might be the geological and oceanographic background for the prediction that opens the book. When findings from multiple disciplines are taken into consideration, it can be claimed that Duun has depicted a coastal community in which a flooding has already taken place and continues to work in the cultural memory of the author and his characters as well as in the minds of readers and critics. The chapter combines a blue humanities-inspired close reading with extra-literary mappings of the archipelagic environment Duun himself grew up in.

• Hennig, Reinhard (2026). Taking Young Audiences Offshore: Petroleum Extraction in Norwegian Children’s Literature. Ecozona. 17(1), s. 297–312. doi: 10.37536/ECOZONA.2026.17.1.5785. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  Norway is a major exporter of oil and natural gas, and the fossil fuel industry constitutes the country’s most important economic sector. Since all of Norway’s petroleum production is located offshore in the North Sea, the Norwegian Sea, and the Barents Sea, it is unobservable from land. This invisibility and inaccessibility make it hard for children to picture and comprehend what this form of extraction involves. Authors of Norwegian children’s literature have repeatedly tried to alleviate this imaginative deficit through conveying a child-oriented experience of working offshore in the oil and gas industry. This article applies a petroculture studies framework to the analysis of four such children’s books, published between 1986 and 2013. The fictional stories in these books tend to present oil platforms as utopian places that offer pleasant and exciting experiences but remain silent on environmental and climatic risks connected to this industry and on the possible depletion of the nonrenewable resources oil and gas. While the oldest of the studied examples is most nuanced in its portrayal of offshore work, the newer books are considerably more ideologically one-sided, and two of them even aim to recruit children as future oil workers. As overtly didactic works, these books have been dismissed in earlier research, while they have been attractive for use in educational contexts precisely due to their didactic characteristics. This indicates a need to enable educators to critically reflect on how works of fiction and nonfiction that are presented to them as benevolent, didactical tools may serve to normalize an unsustainable petroculture.

• Leyda, Julia (2026). Environmental Film and Television Studies. I Zemanek, Evi & Müller, Timo (Red.), Live Handbook Environmental Humanities. Verlag J. B. Metzler. ISSN 9783662708866. doi: 10.1007/978-3-662-70886-6_15-1. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  Environmental Film and Television Studies encompasses a set of interdisciplinary scholarly practices designed to foreground ecological issues in film and television. Drawing on approaches from across the humanities and social sciences, EFTS addresses questions of representation, ideology, aesthetics, and affects with a view to how these investigations can deepen human understandings of nature and our entanglements with it.

• Furuseth, Sissel (2026). Vitalismen: Fossile livsudfoldelser hos Johannes V. Jensen. I Jørgensen, Jens Lohfert; Thomsen, Torsten Bøgh; Skiveren, Tobias & Zetterberg-Nielsen, Simona (Red.), Grøn litteraturhistorie. Økokritiske genlæsninger fra middelalder til i dag. Aarhus Universitetsforlag. ISSN 9788775973576. s. 177–196. doi: https:/unipress.dk/udgivelser/g/groen-litteraturhistorie/. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  Kapitlet drøfter i hvilken grad 'karbonvitalisme' er en produktiv litteraturhistorisk kategori som kan kaste nytt lys over Johannes V. Jensens forfatterskap spesielt og nordisk litteratur ved forrige sekelskifte mer generelt.

• Leyda, Julia & Sulimma, Maria (2026). Drawn to Light: Gendered Electricity and the Climate Unconscious in Yellowjackets. ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment. ISSN 1076-0962. doi: 10.1093/isle/isag039. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  This article examines the role of electricity in the television series Yellowjackets (2021–). Methodologically, it draws on the conceptual framework of the climate unconscious to argue that the uneven presence of electricity across the show’s timelines shape its gendered configurations of power and collectivity. Through close readings of electrical devices, illumination, infrastructural breakdown, and the show’s recurring hive imagery, the analysis demonstrates how Yellowjackets reframes survival not as individual heroism but as a distributed, relational practice. By situating electricity alongside its absence, Yellowjackets models a gendered reimagining of energy that unsettles the fantasies of sovereign control that mobilize petromasculinity.

• Sentler, Miriam (2025). How to Act on Oil. Metode. 3. doi: https:/metode.rom.no/articles/essay/how-to-act-on-oil. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Furuseth, Sissel (2024). Seals and Humans in Post-Industrial Seascape: Marit Eikemo Reporting from Ekofisk City. NORDEUROPAforum. s. 209–222. doi: 10.18452/30843. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  Based on a literary analysis of Marit Eikemo’s reportage essay Alt søkk i havet (»Everything sinks into the Sea«), the article shows how Norwegian sources might be valuable for international research on urbanized seascapes. The article demonstrates how a blue humanities approach sheds new light on Eikemo’s acclaimed writings, focusing on her depictions of interactions between marine life, humans, and built environments at the first oil plant in the North Sea.

• Leyda, Julia & Loock, Kathleen (2024). "There is a storm coming!". [in]Transition. 11(1). doi: 10.16995/intransition.15422. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  This video essay explores the storm as a metaphor and structuring device in the 2011 film Take Shelter and links it to the U.S. housing crisis, extractivism, and the climate unconscious.

• Grau, Marion (2024). Regifting the Divine Economy: Transitioning Petroleum-based Energy Regimes. I Quigley, Jennifer & Keller, Catherine (Red.), Assembling Futures: Economy, Ecology, Democracy, And Religion. Fordham University Press. ISSN 9781531506551. s. 46–63. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Grau, Marion (2023). Ritualizing Climate Grief: Exploring Protests, Civil Disobedience, and Climate Liturgies. Studies in Interreligious Dialogue. ISSN 0926-2326. 33(1), s. 47–62. doi: 10.2143/SID.33.1.3292293. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Furuseth, Sissel (2023). Brølet i helligdommen. Fortellinger om olje i Knut Hamsuns I Æventyrland (1903). Arr - Idéhistorisk tidsskrift. ISSN 0802-7005. 35(3-4), s. 45–55. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Grau, Marion (2023). “State of happiness”? Petroreligion and petromelancholia in Norway. Dialog. ISSN 0012-2033. 62(2), s. 173–183. doi: 10.1111/dial.12803. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Furuseth, Sissel (2023). Petrocultures in the making: Oil in 1920s Scandinavian newspapers. Journal of Energy History (JEHRHE). Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  Based on the assumption that the periodical press was crucial for synchronising the world and preparing for global energy transition in the early 20th C., the article proposes a historiog- raphy of oil that acknowledges newspapers’ excess capacity as research material and takes advantage of analytical approaches developed within print culture studies. Empirically, the article provides new knowledge on how US petroculture was negotiated in Scandinavia in the interwar era, using the press-mediated critical reception of Upton Sinclair’s novel Oil! in Sweden and Norway as a steppingstone. Increasingly accessible newspaper archives show that petroleum dominated 1920s print culture to such an extent that basic assumptions in contemporary petro- culture studies regarding oil’s invisibility must be reconsidered.

• Furuseth, Sissel (2023). Ecocriticism and Petroculture Studies as Translation Work. I Münster, Ursula; Eriksen, Thomas Hylland & Schroer, Sara Asu (Red.), Responding to the Anthropocene: Perspectives from Twelve Academic Disciplines. Scandinavian Academic Press. ISSN 9788230403624. s. 311–329. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  The Anthropocene - the era of humans - refers to a time when humanity has left its indelible stamp on the planet, including its geology and biogeochemistry. Understanding the Anthropocene, where the risk of irreversible and catastrophic ecological damage looms on the horizon, is a daunting task and solutions seem to be difficult to come by. What we offer in this book consists of fifteen perspectives on the Anthropocene written by scholars with backgrounds in over a dozen academic disciplines - archaeology, biology, geology, cultural history, literature, art history, science and technology studies, anthropology, political ecology, geography and law. Together, they offer tools enabling us to grasp the Anthropocene as a multifaceted phenomenon that requires attention from across the social and natural sciences as well as the humanities. Unlike most academic texts, these chapters are written in a personal and engaging style indicating not only that the Anthropocene is a worthy subject of scholarly attention, but that its implications are existentially important to the authors, who are not just researchers, but also global citizens.

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• Leyda, Julia (2023). Anthroposcreens: Mediating the Climate Unconscious. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9781009317702. 80 s. doi: 10.1017/9781009317702. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  Anthroposcreens frames the 'climate unconscious' as a reading strategy for film and television productions during the Anthropocene. Drawing attention to the affects of climate change and the broader environmental damage of the Anthropocene, this study mobilizes its frame in concert with other tools from cultural and film studies—such as debates over Black representation—to provide readings of the underlying environmental themes in Black American and Norwegian screen texts. These bodies of work provide a useful counterpoint to the dominance of white Anglo-American stories in cli-fi while also ranging beyond the boundaries of the cli-fi genre to show how the climate unconscious lens functions in a broader set of texts. Working across film studies, cultural studies, Black studies, and the environmental humanities, Anthroposcreens establishes a cross-disciplinary reading strategy of the 'climate unconscious' for contemporary film and television productions. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

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• Sentler, Miriam (2026). Lunch Seminar “Green Acts: The Fantastical (Re)Imagination of the Green Energy Frontier in Shetland”. doi: https:/www.hf.uio.no/ikos/english/research/projects/oceh/events/oceh-events/lunch-seminars/2026/lunch-seminar-miriam-sentler-%E2%80%9Cgreen-acts-the-fanta.html. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  This talk at OCEH Lab presented research from TOIL-member Miriam Sentler’s doctoral thesis, exploring how Shetlanders use motifs from mythology and science fiction in creative performances to navigate the practical implications of the renewable energy era. The dissertation project 'Energy Acts' investigates how Shetlanders have encountered different forms of energy over time, using their creative island culture to “translate” oil, wind, and other energy industries operating in the context of the North Sea and the North Atlantic. Focusing on archival material showcasing satirical performances about energy production, the project analyses how these performances visualise complex negotiation processes between islanders and industries.

• Sentler, Miriam (2026). Seminar: "Wind Acts: Exploring Wind Energy History in Shetland Through Research-Creation and Archival Research". Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  In this talk at the University of Highlands and Islands (UHI), TOIL member Miriam Sentler spoke about wind energy history in Shetland and discussed how research-creation and archival reenactment provided new insights into this history. The talk was online only, delivered via Microsoft Teams, and begun at 4pm (BST).

• Sandal, Tomine (2026). Situating oil within, through, and across human bodies: Petroleum and trans-corporeality in contemporary Norwegian literature and theatre. doi: https:/datashare.tu-dresden.de/s/A4n5ZHEPgrBdDbx?dir=%2F&editing=false&openfile=true. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  Following the declaration of Petrocultures 2026’s call for paper that “there is no outside observation of energy”, Sandal’s paper argues that there is something to be gained from a corporal introspection: to consider how petroleum moves on and in human bodies. In truth, the geography of petroleum it's not only found “between the site-specific and the planetary”; oil is also bodily situated. Drawing on Stacy Alaimo’s term trans-corporality (Alaimo 2010), Sandal considers how transitions and entanglements between petroleum and human bodies are explored in different ways in contemporary Norwegian literature and theatre. To understand human bodily realities as trans-corporeal means acknowledging that human bodies are always already entangled with their surroundings. This paper discusses the consequences and implications of understanding the relationship between human bodies and oil as trans-corporeal. Sandal considers how literary and theatrical representations of encounters and interactions between human bodies and oil in its various forms and associated infrastructures demonstrate a broader engagement with material, sensory, and affective attachments to petroleum. Thus, this paper seeks to illuminate how aesthetic representations and explorations of how oil is situated within, through, and across human bodies might better our understanding of how petroleum permeates our porous bodies and how deeply ingrained oil is in our corporal realities. The recognition that what we «put out there» comes back to us, urges us to think and act responsibly and with care towards more-than-human bodies and other substances – including for our own sake.

• Furuseth, Sissel (2026). Recontextualising Petrofiction through Interlingual Translation: On the Norwegian Reception of Oil!, Cities of Salt, and Memory of the Sea. doi: https:/tu-dresden.de/gsw/slk/anglistik_amerikanistik/na-literatur/petrocultures2026/full-program-und-book-of-abstracts?set_language=en. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  Situating energy requires persistent attention to the medial and linguistic environments in which energy cultures are represented and negotiated.

• Rosenthal, Debra J.; Vinokour, Maya; Balkan, Stacy; Bellamy, Brent; Furuseth, Sissel & Szeman, Imre [Vis alle 11 forfattere av denne artikkelen] (2026). Teaching Climate Change in the Age of ChatGPT. Academe. ISSN 0190-2946. doi: https:/www.aaup.org/issue/spring-2026/teaching-climate-change-age-chatgpt. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  Debra J. Rosenthal har innhentet informasjon fra ulike forskere innenfor miljø- og energihumaniora om hvordan deres institusjoner forholder seg til miljøbelastningen ved bruk av kunstig intelligens.

• Furuseth, Sissel & Røyne, Ingrid Bjerknes (2026). Fortellinger om oljenasjonen Norge. [Internet]. Apollon. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  I dette intervjuet reflekterer Sissel Furuseth over hvordan oljealderens kulturuttrykk fremmer bevisstgjøring omkring menneskers plass i naturen. Hun understreker at lesing av skjønnlitteratur kan være god og nødvendig trening i det å leve langsomt.

• Sentler, Miriam (2026). SOUNDING OFF: University of Oslo Petrocultures Researcher Miriam Sentler Shares her Thoughts on SSEN’s Viking Energy Windfarm in Shetland. 02.01.2026. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  Opinion piece about wind energy developments in Shetland in local newspaper the Shetland Times

• Hennig, Reinhard (2025). National Cultures and the Geopolitics of Climate Change. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Hennig, Reinhard (2025). På skattejakt under havbunnen. Olje og oljeindustri i norsk barnelitteratur. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Sandal, Tomine (2025). Når verden samler seg i kroppen | Vinduet.no. Vinduets nettsider. doi: https:/www.vinduet.no/essayistikk/nar-verden-samler-seg-i-kroppen-tomine-sandal-essay-om-sara-solberg. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  Sara Sølbergs forfatterskap lodder dypt i sin utforskning av økosykdom og den miljøforurensede kroppen. https://www.vinduet.no/essayistikk/nar-verden-samler-seg-i-kroppen-tomine-sandal-essay-om-sara-solberg

• Sandal, Tomine (2025). Representations of bodily encounters with petroleum oil in Norwegian literature and theatre. doi: https:/www.sv.uio.no/tik/english/research/network/oil-and-society/events/network-gathering-north-sea.html. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  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.

• Furuseth, Sissel (2025). Øvelser i oppmerksomhet og nøysomhet. Om lesning, økokritikk og kriseforståelse. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Hennig, Reinhard (2025). Book Review of "Petrochemical Fantasies. The Art and Energy of American Comics". Ecozona. 16(2), s. 230–232. doi: 10.37536/ecozona.2025.16.2.5805. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  Book review of Petrochemical Fantasies. The Art and Energy of American Comics.

• Pritchard, Eva Jensine & Sentler, Miriam (2025). Interweaving Mythology and Energy: An Interview with Miriam Sentler on her Tapestry Works - Department of Linguistics and Scandinavian Studies. [Internet]. UiO website. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  In this interview, research assistant Eva Pritchard explores Sentler's choice of weaving as a medium and how her artworks reflect the different layers of energy narratives and myths.

• Leyda, Julia (2025). ‘Our’ Dystopian Home: Privilege and Care in Domestic Anthropocenes. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  This talk interrogates the concept of "we" in the Danish television drama "Families like Ours" and in the nationalist usages prevalent in far-right discourses targeting immigrants and LGBT+ people in a time of climate crisis.

• Sandal, Tomine (2025). Fossil Feel LAB: Oljekropper i norsk litteratur og teater. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  I samarbejde med Den Danske Scenekunstskoles Efteruddannelse inviterer vi til workshop med forsker Tomine Sandal og Tora Balslev. En sanselig undersøgelse af spørgsmålene: Hvordan kan vi mærke den fossile kultur i vores kroppe? Hvilken rolle spiller kropslige og affektive tilknytninger til olie i en bæredygtig omstilling? Hvordan kan kunst bidrage til diskussioner om vores moderne olieafhængighed, samt hvordan vi kan komme videre? I workshoppen kan du opleve oplæg ved forsker Tomine Sandal, bevægelsespraksis-deling ved kunstner Tora Balslev og fælles refleksive samtaler. Som deltager er du aktivt i spil med dine sanser, bevægelser og erfaringer som del af undersøgelsen. Der kræves ikke tidligere erfaring med dans eller bevægelse. Efter workshoppen byder vi på en enkel frokost, før programmet fortsætter udendørs med performance-vandringen Fossil Feel.

• Sandal, Tomine (2025). Ocean, oil and illness: Sara Sølberg’s Seismiske smell (2016). doi: https:/www.hf.uio.no/iln/english/research/projects/eco-emotions/annual-conferences/eco-emotions-on-water-2025/program-for-eco-emotions-on-water.html. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  The novel Seismiske smell (Seismic bangs, 2016) by the Norwegian author Sara Sølberg is a multifaceted story about physical and mental illness, extractivism and pollution, loss and grieving, in which the narrator’s human body is woven narratively together with the ocean and the creatures inhabiting it. In this paper, I use Stacy Alaimo’s term trans-corporeality (Alaimo 2010) to discuss how Sølberg’s novel explores trans-corporeal relations between the human body, the sea and extractivism (particularly oil – the title of the novel alludes to seismic surveys that are used when searching for promising offshore oil sites). In addition to examining corporeal and affective responses to environmental change in Seismiske smell, the paper also argues that the novel can be read as an example of what Heather Houser terms “ecosickness fiction”, which refers to literature characterized by “narrative affects that draw conceptual homologies between environmental and somatic vulnerability” (Houser 2014, 3). The paper shows how the novel explores contact zones and flows between the narrator’s own disease-ridden body and other life forms that reside in the ocean, and how Sølberg weaves together the narrator’s physical and mental medical condition with that of oceanic life forms, and ultimately the planet’s ecological emergencies.

• Sandal, Tomine (2025). Hvor er den store norske oljeromanen? doi: https:/klassekampen.no/utgave/2025-07-08/hvor-er-den-store-norske-oljeromanen. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Furuseth, Sissel (2025). Tørketrening. Dag og Tid. ISSN 0803-334X. 64(39), s. 31–31. doi: https:/www.dagogtid.no/pa-vent/torketrening/648697. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  Bokanmeldelsen viser hvordan ild og vann er sammenbindende elementer i Anna Kleivas diktsamling "Triks".

• Furuseth, Sissel (2025). Står oljenostalgi i veien for et grønt skifte? Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Furuseth, Sissel (2025). Olje for husfredens skyld? Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  Petroleumskulturen synes bekvem å ty til i vårt langstrakte land når konflikter knyttet til energiomstilling og grønn kolonialisme blir ubehagelige.

• Hennig, Reinhard (2025). Reading Oil: Ecocritical and Environmental Humanities Approaches to Modern Petroculture. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Hennig, Reinhard (2025). Er det best å la Tyrving ligge? [Internet]. TOILblogg. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Ahlbäck, Pia Maria; Furuseth, Sissel; Ritson, Katie; Reetz, Karl Emil Rosenbæk & Sandal, Tomine (2025). Olie og vand? Petrokultur på og i havet. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Sentler, Miriam (2025). "Burn-up the Oil Dragon" and other childrens' stories about oil from Shetland's Archives. [Radio]. BBC Radio - Sounds - Good Evening Shetland. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Sandal, Tomine (2024). Embodied Experiences of the Post-Oil "Siddy" in Øyvind Rimbereid’s "Solaris Corrected". Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Furuseth, Sissel (2024). The Smell of Modernity: Representations of Fossil Fuels in Knut Hamsun's Travelogue In Wonderland (I Æventyrland, 1903). Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Sandal, Tomine (2024). Theatrical Translations of Oil in Olje og vatn. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Sandal, Tomine (2024). Bodies of Oil: Exploring Oil in 21st Century Norwegian Literature and Theatre. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Furuseth, Sissel (2024). Anthropocene Nostalgia in Norwegian Contemporary Literature. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Sandal, Tomine (2024). Intoxicated driving and reality displacements in Erlend O. Nødtvedt's Vestlandet (2017) and Theis Ørntoft's Solar (2018). Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  This paper explores automobility in two contemporary Scandinavian novels – Erlend O. Nødtvedt’s Vestlandet (2017) and Theis Ørntoft’s Solar (2018) – with an emphasis on connections between intoxicated driving and reality displacements. Both novels depict driving under the influence of alcohol and drugs, where the combination of the substances and the road leads the characters to experience distorted senses, visions and unreal experiences. On the one hand, this mode of driving involves high risk and could potentially be considered an expression of violence. On the other hand, engaging in the practice of intoxicated driving seems to offer potential insight for the characters. This paper seeks to investigate how driving under the influence enable the characters in Vestlandet and Solar to experience alternative states of consciousness, as well as perceptive and affective openings.

• Furuseth, Sissel (2024). Gender Trouble in Scandinavian Road Fiction: Margareta Suber's Charlie (1932) and Runa Fjellanger's På motorveiene (2017). Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  The automobile as a site of erotic desire became a popular topos in 20th century fiction, as illustrated by, for example, Vladimir Nabokov’s 1955 novel Lolita, Italo Calvino’s 1974 short story “La pompa di benzina”, and the 1978 film-musical Grease. Although heteronormativity pervades most of these narratives, a significant number of road fictions tell a different story. As Jenny Ingemarsdotter (2017) has pointed out, cars have the potential to induce “queer feelings” (cf. Sara Ahmed) in a quite specific sense. This paper focuses on two Scandinavian novels that portray female homosexual drivers. Published eighty-five years apart, Swedish Margareta Suber’s Charlie (1932) and Norwegian Runa Fjellanger’s På motorveiene (2017) represent what can be described as the beginning and the end, respectively, of automobility as a liberating cultural practice. The argument combines theoretical insights from petroculture studies, gender studies and affective ecocriticism.

• Furuseth, Sissel (2024). Tales of the North Sea Oil City: An Introduction. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Hestenes, Margrete (2024). Music as Community Practice and Industrial Heritage. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Furuseth, Sissel (2024). Vår ære og vår makt. [Internet]. TOILblogg. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Grau, Marion & Trotier, Kilian (2024). "Für viele sind Kohle, Gas und Öl quasi göttlich" Fossile Brennstoffe werden religiös verehrt, sagt die Theologieprofessorin Marion Grau. Wie es dazu gekommen ist. [Journal]. ZEIT Online. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Leyda, Julia & Størvold, Tore (2024). Screen-Washing: Audiovisual Translations of Norwegian Oil Futures. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Hennig, Reinhard (2024). Marine Petroculture: Offshore Drilling in Norwegian Children's Literature. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Hennig, Reinhard (2024). The Norwegian Donald: Oil in Translated Comics. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Sentler, Miriam (2024). The Functions of Myth and Storytelling in North Sea Oil Disasters. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Grau, Marion (2024). Christmas on the Platform - Eldfisk Complex 2018. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Sentler, Miriam (2024). Presentation on Fieldwork and Artistic Research in Shetland. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Grau, Marion (2023). Countering Colonial Mining: Water Protectors, Environmental Justice and the Creation Community of Saints. I Koster, Hilda P & Deane-Drummond, Celia (Red.), In Solidarity with the Earth: A Multidisciplinary Theological Engagement with Gender, Mining, and Toxic Contamination. Bloomsbury T&T Clark. ISSN 9780567706089. s. 44–62. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Furuseth, Sissel (2023). Kommunikasjon på tvers. Energiomstilling som oversettelsesarbeid. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Furuseth, Sissel (2023). Translating Energy Narratives. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Furuseth, Sissel & Grau, Marion (2023). A Workshop on Oil, Soil, and Toil. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Sandal, Tomine (2023). Bånn gass? Introduksjon til Italo Calvinos «Bensinpumpen». Arr - Idéhistorisk tidsskrift. ISSN 0802-7005. 35(3-4). Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Hale, Sadie E. & Sentler, Miriam (2023). CAIRBAN: A contemporary shark hunt. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv

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