Chelsea Schields (UC Irvine), “Dutch Diseases: Race, Oil, and Intimacy in Offshore Europe” (European Studies Colloquium)

The Modern Europe Colloquium presents Chelsea Shields, Assistant Professor of History, University of California, Irvine, on “Dutch Diseases: Race, Oil, and Intimacy in Offshore Europe.” Moving from Caribbean oil towns to the European metropolis, this talk explores how the management of sex and race shaped global hydrocarbon industries and the Dutch welfare state in an age of energy crises.