Crude Domination : : An Anthropology of Oil /

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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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2000-2013
MitwirkendeR:
Behrends, Andrea,
Ekholm Friedman, Kajsa,
Friedman, Jonathan,
Gledhill, John,
Gustafson, Bret,
Khizriyeva, Galina,
Reyna, Stephen P.,
Schiller, Naomi,
Schlee, Günther,
Stammler, Florian,
Watts, Michael,
HerausgeberIn:
Behrends, Andrea,
Reyna, Stephen,
Schlee, Günther,
Place / Publishing House:New York ;, Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2011]
©2011
Year of Publication:2011
Language:English
Series:Dislocations ; 9
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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

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