The Role of Oil in the Rise of Capitalist Modernity

While becoming a tool for pursuing radical political goals, it's centrality to the world economy made its power vulnerable and volatile as first the United States and later international sanctions demonstrated. We might need to go beyond the oil curse frame to see how social imaginaries, desires and hopes of the future intertwined with those national and super national dynamics. Once again, this will take us across the journey above, but that's fine.