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- Title
Peak Oil and the Narrative Construction of Unmarked Identities.
- Authors
Pruit, John C.
- Abstract
Resource depletion is usually an ecological or economic issue, but I approach interpretations of peak oil as the interplay between local and cultural knowledge during narrative identity construction. I examine two internet resource depletion blogs finding that bloggers compete for narrative control using identity unmarkers. Identity unmarkers are taken for granted understandings of normativity. I call this process narrative unmarking. I discuss four identity unmarkers that play on everyday sentiments of normativity: doing something, doing rationality, making plausible insights, and proposing solutions.
- Subjects
HUBBERT peak theory; BLOGS; NORMATIVITY (Ethics); REASON; NATURAL resources
- Publication
Symbolic Interaction, 2012, Vol 35, Issue 4, p438
- ISSN
0195-6086
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/symb.27