Research Catalog

Title

Crude domination : an anthropology of oil / edited by Andrea Behrends, Stephen P. Reyna, and Günther Schlee.

Publication

New York : Beghahn Books, 2011.

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Additional Authors

• Behrends, Andrea.
• Reyna, Stephen P.
• Schlee, Günther.

Description

vi, 325 pages : illustrations, 1 map; 24 cm.

Summary

Four conjectures relate the prospect of conflict to oil. First, petroleum production integrates local, regional, national, and global levels of political and economic organization. Second, conflict is likely in these forms of integration, especially under conditions of oil scarcity. Third, oil production in the near future is subject to declining supply and increased demand. Fourth, this means that a looming crisis of oil threatens global integration with violence. Therefore, an urgent social science research priority is the investigation of the nexus between oil, integration, and conflict. Tackling these issues in three different world regions - Africa, Latin America, and Russia - this volume assesses the current state of knowledge concerning oil, integration, and conflict and formulates an anthropological research strategy to advance an understanding of oil and its vicissitudes. Offering a strategy for a global anthropology of oil, this volume strengthens the ability of social science to explain and design policy in a world experiencing a global oil crisis. -- Book Description from Website.

Series Statement

Dislocations ; v. 9

Uniform Title

Dislocations ; v. 9.

Subjects

• Petroleum industry and trade
• Social responsibility of business
• Culture and globalization
• Human rights and globalization
• Cross-cultural studies
• Petroleum industry and trade > Cross-cultural studies
• Petroleum industry and trade > Social aspects

Genre/Form

Cross-cultural studies.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

The crazy curse and crude domination: towards an anthropology of oil / Stephen P. Reyna and Andrea Behrends -- Oiling the race to the bottom / Jonathan Friedman -- Blood oil: the anatomy of a petro-insurgency in the Niger Delta, Nigeria / Michael Watts -- Fighting for oil when there is no oil yet: the Darfur-Chad border / Andrea Behrends -- Elves and witches: oil kleptocrats and the destruction of social order in Congo-Brazzaville / Kajsa Ekholm Friedman -- Constituting domination/constructing monsters: imperialism, cultural desire and anti-Beowulfs in the Chadian petro-state / Stephen P. Reyna -- The people's oil: nationalism, globalization and the possibility of another country in Brazil, Mexico and Venezuela / John Gledhill -- "Now that the petroleum is ours": community media, state spectacle and oil nationalism in Venezuela / Naomi Schiller -- Flashpoints of sovereignty: territorial conflict and natural gas in Bolivia / Bret Gustafson -- Oil without conflict? The anthropology of industrialisation in Northern Russia / Florian Stammler -- "Against ... domination": oil and war in Chechnya / Galina Khizriyeva and Stephen P. Reyna -- Afterword: Suggestions for a second reading: an alternative perspective on contested resources as an explanation for conflict / Günther Schlee.

Call Number

Sc E 20-386

ISBN

• 9780857452559
• 085745255X
• 9780857452566
• 0857452568

LCCN

2011014624

OCLC

713567431

Title

Crude domination : an anthropology of oil / edited by Andrea Behrends, Stephen P. Reyna, and Günther Schlee.

Imprint

New York : Beghahn Books, 2011.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Dislocations ; v. 9

Dislocations ; v. 9.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Note

ED; UNIV. OF HALLE-WITTENBERG. NEW ETHNOGRAPHIC ESSAYS ON THE ECONO-POLITICS OF PETROLEUM.

Added Author

Behrends, Andrea.

Reyna, Stephen P.

Schlee, Günther.

Research Call Number

Sc E 20-386