Crude Domination : An Anthropology of Oil /

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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 t...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Behrends, Andrea (Contribuidor, Editor ), Ekholm Friedman, Kajsa (Contribuidor), Friedman, Jonathan (Contribuidor), Gledhill, John (Contribuidor), Gustafson, Bret (Contribuidor), Khizriyeva, Galina (Contribuidor), Reyna, Stephen P. (Contribuidor), Reyna, Stephen (Editor ), Schiller, Naomi (Contribuidor), Schlee, Günther (Contribuidor, Editor ), Stammler, Florian (Contribuidor), Watts, Michael (Contribuidor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York; Oxford : Berghahn Books, [2011]
Colección:Dislocations ; 9
Temas:
Culture and globalization > Electronic books.
Culture and globalization.
Human rights and globalization.
Petroleum industry and trade > Cross-cultural studies.
Petroleum industry and trade > Social aspects.
Social responsibility of business.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Figures
  • Part I Generalities
  • Chapter 1 The Crazy Curse and Crude Domination: Towards an Anthroplogy of Oil
  • Chapter 2 Oiling the Race to the Bottom
  • Part II Africa
  • Chapter 3 Blood Oil: The Anatomy of a Petro-insurgency in the Niger Delta, Nigeria
  • Chapter 4 Fighting for Oil When There is No Oil Yet: The Darfur-Chad Border
  • Chapter 5 Elves and Witches: Oil Kleptocrats and the Destruction of Social Order in Congo-Brazzaville
  • Chapter 6 Constituting Domination/Constructing Monsters: Imperialism, Cultural Desire and Anti-Beowulfs in the Chadian Petro-state
  • Part III Latin America
  • Chapter 7 The People's Oil: Nationalism, Globalisation and the Possibility of Another Country in Brazil, Mexico and Venezuela
  • Chapter 8 'Now That the Petroleum Is Ours': Community Media, State Spectacle and Oil Nationalism in Venezuela
  • Chapter 9 Flashpoints of Sovereignty: Territorial Conflict and Natural Gas in Bolivia
  • Part IV Post-Socialist Russia
  • Chapter 10 Oil without Conflict? The Anthropology of Industrialisation in Northern Russia
  • Chapter 11 'Against ... Domination': Oil and War in Chechnya
  • Afterword Suggestions for a Second Reading: An Alternative Perspective on Contested Resources as an Explanation for Conflict
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Index

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