%0 Journal Article
%T Peak Oil and the Everyday Complexity of Human Progress Narratives
%A John C. Pruit
%J Narrative Works
%D 2012
%I The Electronic Text Centre
%X The ˇ°bigˇ± story of human progress has polarizing tendencies featuring the binary options of progress or decline. I consider human progress narratives in the context of everyday life. Analysis of the ˇ°littleˇ± stories from two narrative environments focusing on peak oil offers a more complex picture of the meaning and contours of the narrative. I consider the impact of differential blog site commitments to peak oil perspectives and identify five narrative types culled from two narrative dimensions. I argue that the lived experience complicates human progress narratives, which is no longer an either/or proposition.
%U http://journals.hil.unb.ca/index.php/NW/article/view/20172/23269