Luennot ja koulutukset: Hydrocarbon Culture in the making in Russia Veli-Pekka Tynkkynen, Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki

Abstract:
High economic and political dependence on oil and gas pushes the Putin regime to build ‘hydrocarbon culture’ to legitimize this very dependence. This construction tries to convince Russians that via hydrocarbons Russia is able modernize and have a greater influence internationally, and therefore Russians should venerate energy and accept hydrocarbons as part of Russian identity. The lecture discusses also the links of ‘hydrocarbon culture’ to the Arctic, Energy-Superpower discourse, energy as leverage in the domestic context, as well as climate discourse.

Bio:
Veli-Pekka Tynkkynen is associate professor in Russian environmental studies at Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki. He is also an adjunct professor in Russian energy and natural-resource policy, The Finnish National Defence U. He leads several academic research projects and a team of 14 researchers (blogs.helsinki.fi/tynkkynen) that focus on energy and environmental policies; energy security; energy, societal power and culture in Russia and the post-socialist space. His recent publications include: “The Environment of an Energy Giant – Climate discourse framed by ‘hydrocarbon culture’”, In Poberezhskaya & Ashe (eds.) Climate Change Discourse in Russia: past and present, Routledge (2018); Tynkkynen, V-P. et al. (eds.) Russia’s Far North: The Contested Energy Frontier, Routledge (2018); “Climate Denial revisited: (Re)contextualising Russian Public Discourse on Climate Change during Putin 2.0” (with N. Tynkkynen), Europe-Asia Studies, (2018);“Energy as Power—Gazprom, Gas Infrastructure, and Geo-Governmentality in Putin’s Russia”, Slavic Review 75, 2 (2016); “Sports fields and corporate governmentality: Gazprom’s all-Russian gas program as energopower”, in Koch (ed.)<$DetailsLisatietojaLinkki$>