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7/ 🧵 Through this paper, we extend research at the intersection of sociotechnical imaginaries and materialities, demonstrating the generative analytic potential of combining these conceptual approaches.

6/ 🧵 Crucially, in envisioning the UKCS as 'net zero basin', hydrocarbon extraction is sustained into an indeterminate future (rather than extinguished through a managed decline).

5/ 🧵 A key part of the findings explores the recent retooling of the UKCS as a 'net-zero basin'. The imaginary of offshore energy capture is here expanded to accomodate and keep in balance a range of (energy) technologies.

4/ 🧵 Across these different phases we demonstrate how the imaginary takes form around distinct spatio-material qualities of the offshore, in turn linking these qualities in different ways to servicing British society.

3/ 🧵 We present four phases in the evolution of the imaginary of energy capture offshore: economic recovery, market society, energy transition and net-zero basin.

2/🧵 In this paper, we argue that the UKCS has been a long-standing site for (re)imagining national modernisation.

🚨 New paper out in ERSS with @GavinBridge9 and @eoraborealis🚨.We explore the evolving sociotechnical imaginary of energy capture on the UK's Continental Shelf from the start of hydrocarbon extraction in the 1960s until present time. 1/🧵

RT @BADIL_Center: 📢 GLOBAL CALL FOR SOCIAL MEDIA STORM #EndIsraelsGenocide

RT @ewangibbs: On the same day:. The Scottish Government publish proposals for independence centred on a green egalitarian economy powered….

RT @AnthropoceneUCL: We're thrilled to be hosting this event:. 'Oil Collaborations: reflections on the disassembly/reassembly of the UK hyd….

Curious about how gas became culturally entangled into British society? Check out this neat piece @SNFSchlee in The Conversation!. 'Brighter lives are lived by gas!': how natural gas was sold to a sceptical public in post-war Britain via @ConversationUK.

Spending the day at the @UkNatArchives with historical #energypolicy on the #northsea.

RT @FBauer_LU: A transition from oil and gas is not looking very probable, @jenk2021 is not very optimistic at the session about North Sea….

Good Qs from the audience: How to think the role of public ownership of oil and gas in these different contexts to accelerate the transition? How to consider the re-use of fossil infrastructure for the deployment of renewables without delaying the phase out of fossil fuels?.

@CamillaHoueland @jenk2021 and Karl Sperling presented newly published work at the @SEIforskning on the transition pathways of Norway, the UK and Denmark.

Just tuned into a great session on just transitions in oil and gas in the North Sea at the Fossil Fuel Supply and Climate Policy conference in Oxford. #FFCS22

RT @GavinBridge9: Lifting moratorium on fracking in UK is 'a political gesture' and 'wont work'. Says founder of fracking company. https://….

RT @jefri_lund: Naima Kraushaar-Friesen wrote this insightful post about a PhD course on net-zero and the politics of climate mitigation he….