Caleb Wellum

Caleb Wellum, author of Energizing Neoliberalism, discusses how the 1970s energy crisis facilitated a neoliberal shift in US political culture. He explores the cultural construction of the crisis and its meanings, tracing its roots to the consumption practices of Cold War capitalism. Wellum examines the consolidation of a neoliberal capitalist order through energy politics marked by anxious futurity and financialized energy markets.