Crude Domination

An Anthropology of Oil

Häftad, Engelska, 2013

AvAndrea Behrends,Stephen Reyna,Günther Schlee

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Crude Domination is an innovative and important book about a critical topic – oil. While there have been numerous works about petroleum from ‘experience-far’ perspectives, there have been relatively few that have turned the ‘experience-near’ ethnographic gaze of anthropology on the topic. Crude Domination does just this among more peoples and more places than any other volume. Its chapters investigate nuances of culture, politics and economics in Africa, Latin America, and Eurasia as they pertain to petroleum. They wrestle with the key questions vexing scholars and practitioners alike: problems of the economic blight of the resource curse, underdevelopment, democracy, violence and war. Additionally they address topics that may initially appear insignificant – such as child witches and lionmen, fighting for oil when there is no oil, reindeer nomadism, community TV – but which turn out on closer scrutiny to be vital for explaining conflict and transformation in petro-states. Based upon these rich, new worlds of information, the text formulates a novel, domination approach to the social analysis of oil.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2013-04-01
Mått152 x 229 x 19 mm
Vikt449 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieDislocations
Antal sidor334
FörlagBerghahn Books
ISBN9781782380351

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Energiindustri inom Ekonomi och Ledarskap
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List of FiguresPART I: GENERALITIESChapter 1. The Crazy Curse and Crude Domination: Towards an Anthropology of OilStephen Reyna and Andrea BehrendsChapter 2. Oiling the Race to the BottomJonathan FriedmanPART II: AFRICAChapter 3. Blood Oil: The Anatomy of a Petro-Insurgency in the Niger Delta, NigeriaMichael WattsChapter 4. Fighting for oil when there is no oil yet – The Darfur-Chad borderAndrea BehrendsChapter 5. Elfs and Witches: Oil Cleptocrats and the Destruction of Social Order in Congo-BrazzavilleKajsa Ekholm FriedmanChapter 6. Constituting Domination/Constructing Monsters:Imperialism, Cultural Desire, and anti-Beowulfs in the Chadian Petro-stateStephen P. ReynaPART III: LATIN AMERICAChapter 7. The Persistent Imaginary of ‘the People's Oil’: Nationalism, Globalisation and the Possibility of Another Country in Brazil, Mexico and VenezuelaJohn GledhillChapter 8.“Now That the Petroleum is Ours:” Community Media, State Spectacle, and Oil Nationalism in VenezuelaNaomi SchillerChapter 9. Flashpoints of Sovereignty: Territorial Conflict and Natural Gas in BoliviaBret GustafsonPART IV. POST-SOCIALIST RUSSIAChapter 10. Oil Without Conflict? The Anthropology of Industrialisation in Northern RussiaFlorian StammlerChapter 11. ‘Against… Domination’: Oil and War in ChechnyaGalina Khizrieva and Stephen P. ReynaAfterword Suggestions for a Second Reading: An Alternative Perspective on Contested Resources as an Explanation for ConflictGünther SchleeNotes on Contributors

“This book is chiefly valuable for the nuanced, in-depth reporting of the cases, especially the violent ones. Valuable for scholars of resource conflict, and necessary reading for anyone deeply researching oil politics.” · Choice"Here is anthropology at its critical and relevant best. Nothing could be more topical than the role of oil in contemporary global turmoil and “the crazy curse” that it casts over all manner of human endeavour and hope. The essays in this important book offer major insights into the heart of the crisis of capital and the local cultural phantasmagoria expressing its cruel paradoxes. The ethnographic analyses expand important arguments in other disciplines (especially economics and political science) and demonstrate the valuable necessity of anthropological perspectives. This is a must read for anthropologists and those in other disciplines who are concerned with the dynamics of global power as this is exposed in the struggle over the control of scarce resources and its tragic human effects." · Bruce Kapferer, University of Bergen