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"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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Huber, Matthew T., Watts, Michael, 1951- (Editor ), Mason, Arthur, 1965- (Editor ), Appel, Hannah, 1978- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London : Cornell University Press, 2015.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Petroleum industry and trade > Social aspects.
Petroleum industry and trade > Political aspects.
Gas industry > Social aspects.
Gas industry > Political aspects.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Industries > General.
Gaz > Industrie > Aspect politique.
Gaz > Industrie > Aspect social.
Petrole > Industrie et commerce > Aspect politique.
Petrole > Industrie et commerce > Aspect social.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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