Settling the boom : the sites and subjects of Bakken oil /

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"Settling the Boom studies how the disruptive forces of an oil boom in the northern Great Plains are contained through the extension of settler temporalities, reassertions of heteropatriarchy, and the tethering of life to the volatility of oil and its cruel optimisms. The collection reveals the...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Thomas, Mary E. (Mary Elizabeth), 1970- (Editor), Braun, Bruce, 1964- (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2023]
Subjects:
Petroleum industry and trade > Economic aspects > North Dakota > Williston.
Petroleum industry and trade > Social aspects > North Dakota > Williston.
Business cycles > North Dakota > Williston.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Geography
Business cycles.
Petroleum industry and trade > Economic aspects.
Petroleum industry and trade > Social aspects.
Bakken Formation.
North America > Bakken Formation.
North Dakota > Williston.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Cover Page
  • Title Page
  • Copyright Page
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Introduction: (Un)settling the Boom
  • Chapter 1. The Settler Heteropatriarchy of Boomtown, USA
  • Chapter 2. Bakken Aesthetics: Art and Attachment in the Era of Tough Oil
  • Chapter 3. Anthropocene Realism: Genres of "Energy Independence"
  • Chapter 4. Crisis Ordinariness: The Bakken Boom in Late Capitalism
  • Chapter 5. On the Dark Side of the Boom: Narratives of Social Crisis and Liberal Arts of Governance
  • Chapter 6. The Dakota Access Pipeline Struggle: Vulnerability, Security, and Settler Colonialism in the Oil Assemblage
  • Beyond Settler Infrastructures: A Conclusion
  • Contributors
  • Index

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