Life Worlds of Middle Eastern Oil : : Histories and Ethnographies of Black Gold / / ed. by Nelida Fuccaro.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2023 English
• MitwirkendeR: Al-Nakib, Farah,; Biglari, Mattin,; Chatty, Dawn,; Citino, Nathan J.,; Fuccaro, Nelida,; Ghosn, Rania,; Hindelang, Laura,; Limbert, Mandana E.,; MacLean, Matthew,; Mason, Arthur,; Oguz, Zeynep,; Rogers, Douglas,; Wright, Andrea,; Younis, Ala,
• HerausgeberIn: Fuccaro, Nelida,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2023]; ©2023
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (296 p.) :; 32 B/W illustrations 38 colour illustrations 32 black and white illustrations, 38 colour illustrations and 4 maps

Studies how oil has shaped the societies and cultures of the modern and contemporary Middle EastProposes a new research agenda for the study of oil’s varied lives in the modern and contemporary Middle EastIncludes 13 case studies, including 2 photo essays by leading artists and designersTakes a thematic approach to promote interdisciplinary thinkingPresents contributions from leading historians and anthropologists, world-renown artists, curators and designers, and younger scholars who are developing an outstanding research portfolio on oilThis volume explores the ways petroleum as an industry and substance has moulded the social, cultural and artistic life of the Middle East. Rather than tackle the powers of this crucial resource from the perspective of macro-economics, impersonal rentier states and large corporations, this book ‘brings oil back’ into the ebbs and flows of Middle Eastern life. It focuses on the ways petroleum mediates and is mediated by national formations and imaginaries, visual practices, as well as scientific, business and artistic production. In focusing on the largest oil producing and exporting region in the world, this volume sheds light on the effects and affects of petroleum’s presence within and beyond the oil-industry.Part 1 – Exposing Oil sets out the main themes through which oil is analysed in the volume (visibility, experience, representation and mediation). Part 2 – Oil Images deals with image making by the oil industry (as graphs, aerial photographs and promotional media) and by artists and designers who have engaged with, and commented on, oil’s presence in the region. Part 3 – Oil Subjects focuses on the production of (oil) subjecthood and the formation of oil knowledge.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- FIGURES -- NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- PART I EXPOSING OIL -- 1 SCOUTING FOR OIL IN THE MIDDLE EAST -- 2 ‘NO WORDS AROUND TO DESCRIBE’: BETWEEN SEEING AND COMPREHENDING KUWAIT’S OIL FIRES -- PART II IMAGE WORLDS -- VISUALISING PETROLEUM PASTS -- 3 PHOTOGRAPHING CRUDE IN THE DESERT: SIGHT AND SENSE AMONG OIL MEN -- 4 THE OIL COMPANY’S FIELDS OF VISION: PUBLIC RELATIONS AND LABOUR IMAGES IN THE ARAB WORLD -- 5 AL-BAHITHUN: SOUNDS THAT CALL TO THE (OIL) FIELDS -- PROJECTING FUTURES -- 6 EMPATHY FOR THE GRAPH -- 7 AFTER OIL -- PART III OIL SUBJECTS -- ECOLOGIES AND GENEALOGIES OF PETROLEUM KNOWLEDGE -- 8 SPECULATIVE MATTERS: THE PASTS AND PRESENTS OF OIL IN TURKEY -- 9 PETROPROTEIN DREAMS: HYDROCARBON BIOTECHNOLOGY AND MICROBIAL LIFE WORLDS IN THE MIDDLE EAST -- 10 MAKING OIL MEN: EXPERTISE, DISCIPLINE AND SUBJECTIVITY IN THE ANGLO-IRANIAN OIL COMPANY’S TRAINING SCHEMES -- NEW SPACES AND MOBILITIES -- 11 SHIFTING SOLIDARITIES: STRIKES, INDIAN LABOUR AND THE ARABIAN SEA OIL INDUSTRY, 1946–1953 -- 12 GENDER, DOMESTICITY AND SPEED: AMERICAN PETRO-MODERNITY -- 13 OIL, MOBILITY AND TERRITORIALITY IN THE TRUCIAL STATES/ UNITED ARAB EMIRATES, MUSCAT AND OMAN -- 14 CONTESTATION AND CO-OPTATION IN THE DESERT LANDSCAPES OF OMAN -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX