Prof Gavin Bridge is a resource and economic geographer at the University of Durham, whose research focuses on the extractive industries of gas, mining and oil. His work spans questions related to political ecology of resource scarcity and security, new geographies of resource production/consumption, global production of raw materials, and geographies of energy transition and governance. Gavin is also the co-author of the recently published book ‘Oil’ with Philippe Le Billon.

This keynote speech is part of the Interdisciplinary Conference on Extraction & Exclusion.