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Crude Domination : An Anthropology of Oil / ed. by Andrea Behrends, Günther Schlee, Stephen Reyna.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Dislocations ; 9Publisher: New York ; Oxford : Berghahn Books, [2011]Copyright date: ©2011Description: 1 online resource (334 p.)Content type:
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  • 9780857452559
  • 9780857452566
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 338.2/7282
LOC classification:
  • HD9560.5 .C78 2011
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  • online - DeGruyter
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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
Summary: 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 Domination does just this among more peoples and more places than any other volume. Its chapters investigate nuances of culture, politics and economics in Africa, Latin America, and Eurasia as they pertain to petroleum. They wrestle with the key questions vexing scholars and practitioners alike: problems of the economic blight of the resource curse, underdevelopment, democracy, violence and war. Additionally they address topics that may initially appear insignificant – such as child witches and lionmen, fighting for oil when there is no oil, reindeer nomadism, community TV – but which turn out on closer scrutiny to be vital for explaining conflict and transformation in petro-states. Based upon these rich, new worlds of information, the text formulates a novel, domination approach to the social analysis of oil.
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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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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 Domination does just this among more peoples and more places than any other volume. Its chapters investigate nuances of culture, politics and economics in Africa, Latin America, and Eurasia as they pertain to petroleum. They wrestle with the key questions vexing scholars and practitioners alike: problems of the economic blight of the resource curse, underdevelopment, democracy, violence and war. Additionally they address topics that may initially appear insignificant – such as child witches and lionmen, fighting for oil when there is no oil, reindeer nomadism, community TV – but which turn out on closer scrutiny to be vital for explaining conflict and transformation in petro-states. Based upon these rich, new worlds of information, the text formulates a novel, domination approach to the social analysis of oil.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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