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Cornell University Press

Date de parution

16 novembre 2015

Nombre de lectures

EAN13

9780801455407

Langue

English

Poids de l'ouvrage

5 Mo

"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 sophistication, the industry betrays a startling degree of inexactitude and empirical disagreement about foundational questions of quantity, output, and price. As an industry typified by concentrated economic and political power, its operations are obscured by secrecy and security. Perhaps it is not surprising, then, that the social sciences typically approach oil as a metonym-of modernity, money, geopolitics, violence, corruption, curse, ur-commodity-rather than considering the daily life of the industry itself and of the hydrocarbons around which it is built.Subterranean Estates gathers an interdisciplinary group of scholars and experts to instead provide a critical topography of the hydrocarbon industry, understood not solely as an assemblage of corporate forms but rather as an expansive and porous network of laborers and technologies, representation and expertise, and the ways of life oil and gas produce at points of extraction, production, marketing, consumption, and combustion. By accounting for oil as empirical and experiential, the contributors begin to demystify a commodity too often given almost demiurgic power. Subterranean Estates shifts critical attention away from an exclusive focus on global oil firms toward often overlooked aspects of the industry, including insurance, finance, law, and the role of consultants and community organizations. Based on ethnographic research from around the world (Equatorial Guinea, Nigeria, Oman, the United States, Ecuador, Chad, the United Kingdom, Kazakhstan, Canada, Iran, and Russia), and featuring a photoessay on the lived experiences of those who inhabit a universe populated by oil rigs, pipelines, and gas flares, this innovative volume provides a new perspective on the material, symbolic, cultural, and social meanings of this multidimensional world.

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Publié par

Cornell University Press

Date de parution

16 novembre 2015

Nombre de lectures

EAN13

9780801455407

Langue

English

Poids de l'ouvrage

5 Mo

Human geography

SUBTERRANEAN ESTATES

Life Worlds of Oil and Gas

EDITED BY Hannah Appel, Arthur Mason, and Michael Watts

Cornell University Press Ithaca and London

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Library o Congress Cataoging-in-Pubication Data Subterranean estates : ie words o oi and gas / edited by Hannah Appe, Arthur Mason, and Michae Watts. pages cm Incudes bibiographica reerences and index. ISBN 978-0-8014-5344-1 (coth : ak. paper) ISBN 978-0-8014-7986-1 (pbk. : ak. paper) 1. Petroeum industry and trade—Socia aspects. 2. Petroeum industry and trade—Poitica aspects. 3. Gas industry—Socia aspects. 4. Gas industry—Poitica aspects. I. Appe, Hannah, 1978– editor. II. Mason, Arthur, 1965–editor. III. Watts, Michae, 1951–editor. IV. Huber, Matthew T. Oi or ie. Container o (work): HD9560.5.S798 2015 338.2'728—dc23 2014040860

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Contents

Acknowedgments

Introduction: Oi Tak Hannah Appel, Arthur Mason, and Mîchael Watts

Part I. Oil as a Way of Life 1. Oi or Lie: The Bureau o Mines and the Biopoitics o the Petroeum Market Matt Huber

2. Veocity and Viscosity Peter Hîtchcock

3. Deep Oi and Deep Cuture in the Russian Uras Douglas Rogers

4. Oi, Mascuinity, and Vioence: Egbesu Worship in the Niger Deta o Nigeria Rebecca Golden Tîmsar

Part II. The Oil Archive, Expertise, and Strategic Knowledges 5. The Oi Archives Andrew Barry

6. Securing the Natura Gas Boom: Oi Fied Service Companies and Hydrauic Fracturing’s Reguatory Exemptions Sara Wylîe

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7. Crude Contamination: Law, Science, and Indeterminacy in Ecuador and Beyond Suzana Sawyer

8. The Image Word o Midde Eastern Oi Mona Damlujî

Photo Essay Specters o Oi: An Introduction to the Photographs o Ed Kashi Mîchael J. Watts

Part III. Oil Markets: Turbulence, Risk, and Security 9. Near Futures and Perect Hedges in the Gu o Mexico Leîgh Johnson

10. Securing Oi: Frontiers, Risk, and Spaces o Accumuated Insecurity Mîchael J. Watts

11. Oi Assembages and the Production o Conusion: Price Fuctuations in Two West Arican Oi-Producing Economies Jane I. Guyer

Part IV. Hard and Soft Infrastructures 12. Ofshore Work: Inrastructure and Hydrocarbon Capitaism in Equatoria Guinea Hannah Appel

13. Back Oi Business: Rogue Pipeines, Hydrocarbon Deaers, and the “Economics” o Oi Thet Elîzabeth Gelber

14. The Poitica Economy o Oi Privatization in Post-Soviet Kazakhstan Saulesh Yessenova

Part V. Oil Futures and Oil Transitions 15. Carbon, Convertibiity, and the Technopoitics o Oi Hannah Knox

16. Events Coectives: The Socia Lie o a Promise-Disappointment Cyce Arthur Mason

17. Reserves, Secrecy, and the Science o Oi Prognostication in Southern Arabia Mandana E. Lîmbert

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18. Vicious Transparency: Contesting Canada’s Hydrocarbon Future Anna Zalîk

Reerences

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