Crude Domination : : An Anthropology of Oil / / ed. by Andrea Behrends, Günther Schlee, Stephen Reyna.
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 the topic. Crude Domi...
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Place / Publishing House: | New York ;, Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2011] ©2011 |
Year of Publication: | 2011 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Dislocations ;
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (334 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- 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