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Resource Curse (2017)
Book Chapter
Stewart, J. C. (2017). Resource Curse. In I. Szeman, J. Wenzel, & P. Yaeger (Eds.), Fueling culture: 101 words for energy and environment (285-288). Fordham University Press

After Oil (2016)
Book
Group, P. R. (2016). After Oil. West Virginia University Press

“After Oil: Explorations and Experiments in the Future of Energy, Culture and Society” is a collaborative, interdisciplinary research partnership designed to explore, critically and creatively, the social, cultural, and political changes necessary to... Read More about After Oil.

Sociology, Culture and Energy: The Case of Wilhelm Ostwald's 'Sociological Energetics' - A Translation and Exposition of a Classic Text (2014)
Journal Article
Stewart, J. C. (2014). Sociology, Culture and Energy: The Case of Wilhelm Ostwald's 'Sociological Energetics' - A Translation and Exposition of a Classic Text. Cultural Sociology, 8(3), 333-350. https://doi.org/10.1177/1749975514523937

Sociology has largely ignored the contribution of the German Nobel-Prize-winning chemist Wilhelm Ostwald to the sociology of energy, mainly due to Max Weber’s (1909) dismissive reception of Ostwald’s ‘energetical thought’. This article reclaims Ostwa... Read More about Sociology, Culture and Energy: The Case of Wilhelm Ostwald's 'Sociological Energetics' - A Translation and Exposition of a Classic Text.

Making Globalization Visible?: The Oil Assemblage, the Work of Sociology and the Work of Art (2013)
Journal Article
Stewart, J. C. (2013). Making Globalization Visible?: The Oil Assemblage, the Work of Sociology and the Work of Art. Cultural Sociology, 7, 368-384. https://doi.org/10.1177/1749975512453663

This article sets out to rethink the relationship between the work of art and the work of sociology, drawing on Jacques Ranciere’s writing on the work of art to provide the basis for recognizing affinities and differences between these two processes.... Read More about Making Globalization Visible?: The Oil Assemblage, the Work of Sociology and the Work of Art.

Filming Vienna 1900: The Poetics of Cinema and the Politics of Ornament in Raúl Ruiz's Klimt (2013)
Journal Article
Stewart, J. C. (2013). Filming Vienna 1900: The Poetics of Cinema and the Politics of Ornament in Raúl Ruiz's Klimt. Journal of Austrian studies, 46(2), 49-79. https://doi.org/10.1353/oas.2013.0027

Raúl Ruiz’s 2006 movie Klimt offers a sophisticated attempt to translate the visual art theory of Klimt’s Vienna into cinematic form. Reading this film alongside Ruiz’s reflections on film theory, this article explores how Ruiz employed key ideas fro... Read More about Filming Vienna 1900: The Poetics of Cinema and the Politics of Ornament in Raúl Ruiz's Klimt.

Public Speaking in the City: Debating and Shaping the Urban Experience (2009)
Book
Stewart, J. C. (2009). Public Speaking in the City: Debating and Shaping the Urban Experience. Palgrave Macmillan

Providing a compelling analysis of debates in and about the modern city, this book draws upon architecture, history, literary studies, new media and sociology to explore the multiple connections between location, speech and the emerging modern metrop... Read More about Public Speaking in the City: Debating and Shaping the Urban Experience.

Conflict, Compromise and Resistance: Popular Culture in Austria, 1918-1945 (2006)
Book Chapter
Stewart, J. C. (2006). Conflict, Compromise and Resistance: Popular Culture in Austria, 1918-1945. In R. Robertson, & K. Kohl (Eds.), History of Austrian Literature 1918-1945 (87-106). Camden House

20th-century Austrian literature boasts many outstanding writers: Schnitzler, Musil, Rilke, Kraus, Celan, Canetti, Bernhard, Jelinek. These and others feature in broader accounts of German literature, but it is desirable to see how the Austrian liter... Read More about Conflict, Compromise and Resistance: Popular Culture in Austria, 1918-1945.