Subterranean Estates : : Life Worlds of Oil and Gas / / ed. by Arthur Mason, Hannah Appel, Michael Watts.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
• MitwirkendeR: Appel, Hannah,; Barry, Andrew,; Damluji, Mona,; Gelber, Elizabeth,; Guyer, Jane I.,; Hitchcock, Peter,; Huber, Matt,; Johnson, Leigh,; Knox, Hannah,; Limbert, Mandana E.,; Mason, Arthur,; Rogers, Douglas,; Sawyer, Suzana,; Timsar, Rebecca Golden,; Watts, Michael J.,; Watts, Michael,; Wylie, Sara,; Yessenova, Saulesh,; Zalik, Anna,
• HerausgeberIn: Appel, Hannah,; Mason, Arthur,; Watts, Michael,
• Place / Publishing House: Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2015]; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (432 p.) :; 21 halftones, 4 tables, 3 charts

"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 sophisti...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction. Oil Talk
• Part I. Oil as a Way of Life
• Chapter 1. Oil For Life
• Chapter 2. Velocity and Viscosity
• Chapter 3. Deep Oil and Deep Culture in the Russian Urals
• Chapter 4. Oil, Masculinity, and Violence
• Part II. The Oil Archive, Expertise, and Strategic Knowledges
• Chapter 5. The Oil Archives
• Chapter 6. Securing the Natural Gas Boom
• Chapter 7. Crude Contamination
• Chapter 8. The Image World of Middle Eastern Oil
• Photo Essay. Specters Of Oil.
• Part III. Oil Markets.
• Chapter 9. Near Futures and Perfect Hedges in the Gulf of Mexico
• Chapter 10. Securing Oil.
• Chapter 11. Oil Assemblages and the Production of Confusion.
• Part IV. Hard and Soft Infrastructures
• Chapter 12. Offshore Work.
• Chapter 13. Black Oil Business.
• Chapter 14. The Political Economy Of Oil Privatization In Post-Soviet Kazakhstan
• Part V. Oil Futures And Oil Transitions
• Chapter 15. Carbon, Convertibility, And The Technopolitics of Oil.
• Chapter 16. Events Collectives. The Social Life of a Promise-Disappointment Cycle
• Chapter 17. Reserves, Secrecy, and the Science of Oil Prognostication in Southern Arabia
• Chapter 18. Vicious Transparency.
• References
• Index