Petro-masculinity is a variety of masculinity associated with the petroculture and fossil fuel industry, including both the workers in the industry and promoters of the industry in the large social and civic space. Though petro-masculinities have existed as part of different fossil fuel industries, the analysis of them became important in the late 2010s as the connection of masculinity cultures with climate denial. [1]
The widespread use of the term started with Cara Daggett's in her 2018 paper "Petro-masculinity: Fossil Fuels and Authoritarian Desire" argues that petromasculinity connects male identify with various issues of power such as colonialism and extractivism. [1] [2]
Petromasculinity tends to emphasize several different types of cultural performances of masculinity, including:
Together, these narratives have become aligned with far-right and authoritarian politics in much of Europe and North America, [4] [3] and is advanced by influencers in masculinity culture, such as Manosphere influencers Andrew Tate, Joe Rogan and Jordan Peterson. [7]