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Subterranean Estates : Life Worlds of Oil and Gas /
"Oil is a fairy tale, and, like every fairy tale, is a bit of a lie."--Ryzard Kapuscinski, Shah of ShahsThe scale and reach of the global oil and gas industry, valued at several trillions of dollars, is almost impossible to grasp. Despite its vast technical expertise and scientific sophist...
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| 505 | 0 | |a Subterranean Estates -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Oil Talk -- Part I. Oil as a Way of Life -- 1. Oil for Life: The Bureau of Mines and the Biopolitics of the Petroleum Market -- 2. Velocity and Viscosity -- 3. Deep Oil and Deep Culture in the Russian Urals -- 4. Oil, Masculinity, and Violence: Egbesu Worship in the Niger Delta of Nigeria -- Part II. The Oil Archive, Expertise, and Strategic Knowledges -- 5. The Oil Archives -- 6. Securing the Natural Gas Boom: Oil Field Service Companies and Hydraulic Fracturing's Regulatory Exemptions -- 7. Crude Contamination: Law, Science, and Indeterminacy in Ecuador and Beyond -- 8. The Image World of Middle Eastern Oil -- Photo Essay -- Specters of Oil: An Introduction to the Photographs of Ed Kashi -- Part III. Oil Markets: Turbulence, Risk, and Security -- 9. Near Futures and Perfect Hedges in the Gulf of Mexico -- 10. Securing Oil: Frontiers, Risk, and Spaces of Accumulated Insecurity -- 11. Oil Assemblages and the Production of Confusion: Price Fluctuations in Two West African Oil-Producing Economies -- Part IV. Hard and Soft Infrastructures -- 12. Offshore Work: Infrastructure and Hydrocarbon Capitalism in Equatorial Guinea -- 13. Black Oil Business: Rogue Pipelines, Hydrocarbon Dealers, and the "Economics" of Oil Theft -- 14. The Political Economy of Oil Privatization in Post-Soviet Kazakhstan -- Part V. Oil Futures and Oil Transitions -- 15. Carbon, Convertibility, and the Technopolitics of Oil -- 16. Events Collectives: The Social Life of a Promise-Disappointment Cycle -- 17. Reserves, Secrecy, and the Science of Oil Prognostication in Southern Arabia -- 18. Vicious Transparency: Contesting Canada's Hydrocarbon Future -- References -- Index. | |
| 520 | |a "Oil is a fairy tale, and, like every fairy tale, is a bit of a lie."--Ryzard Kapuscinski, Shah of ShahsThe scale and reach of the global oil and gas industry, valued at several trillions of dollars, is almost impossible to grasp. Despite its vast technical expertise and scientific sophistication, the industry betrays a startling degree of inexactitude and empirical disagreement about foundational questions of quantity, output, and price. As an industry typified by concentrated economic and political power, its operations are obscured by secrecy and security. Perhaps it is not surprising, then, that the social sciences typically approach oil as a metonym--of modernity, money, geopolitics, violence, corruption, curse, ur-commodity--rather than considering the daily life of the industry itself and of the hydrocarbons around which it is built. Subterranean Estates gathers an interdisciplinary group of scholars and experts to instead provide a critical topography of the hydrocarbon industry, understood not solely as an assemblage of corporate forms but rather as an expansive and porous network of laborers and technologies, representation and expertise, and the ways of life oil and gas produce at points of extraction, production, marketing, consumption, and combustion. By accounting for oil as empirical and experiential, the contributors begin to demystify a commodity too often given almost demiurgic power. Subterranean Estates shifts critical attention away from an exclusive focus on global oil firms toward often overlooked aspects of the industry, including insurance, finance, law, and the role of consultants and community organizations. Based on ethnographic research from around the world (Equatorial Guinea, Nigeria, Oman, the United States, Ecuador, Chad, the United Kingdom, Kazakhstan, Canada, Iran, and Russia), and featuring a photoessay on the lived experiences of those who inhabit a universe populated by oil rigs, pipelines, and gas flares, this innovative volume provides a new perspective on the material, symbolic, cultural, and social meanings of this multidimensional world. | ||
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