{"product_id":"crude-domination-an-anthropology-of-oil-9781782380351","title":"Crude Domination: An Anthropology of Oil","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eCrude Domination \u003c\/em\u003eis 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. \u003cem\u003eCrude Domination \u003c\/em\u003edoes 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \t“\u003cem\u003eThis book is chiefly valuable for the nuanced, in-depth reporting of the cases, especially the violent ones. Valuable for scholars of resource conflict, and necessary reading for anyone deeply researching oil politics.\u003c\/em\u003e”\u003cb\u003e  ·  \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eChoice\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cem\u003e\"Here is anthropology at its critical and relevant best. Nothing could be more topical than the role of oil in contemporary global turmoil and “the crazy curse” that it casts over all manner of human endeavour and hope. The essays in this important book offer major insights into the heart of the crisis of capital and the local cultural phantasmagoria expressing its cruel paradoxes. The ethnographic analyses expand important arguments in other disciplines (especially economics and political science) and demonstrate the valuable necessity of anthropological perspectives. This is a must read for anthropologists and those in other disciplines who are concerned with the dynamics of global power as this is exposed in the struggle over the control of scarce resources and its tragic human effects.\"\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cb\u003e  ·  \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBruce Kapferer\u003c\/strong\u003e, University of Bergen\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \tList of Figures\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003ePART I: GENERALITIES\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 1. \u003c\/strong\u003eThe Crazy Curse and Crude Domination: Towards an Anthropology of Oil\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eStephen Reyna and Andrea Behrends\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 2. \u003c\/strong\u003eOiling the Race to the Bottom\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eJonathan Friedman\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003ePART II: AFRICA\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 3. \u003c\/strong\u003eBlood Oil: The Anatomy of a Petro-Insurgency in the Niger Delta, Nigeria\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eMichael Watts\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 4. \u003c\/strong\u003eFighting for oil when there is no oil yet – The Darfur-Chad border\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eAndrea Behrends\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 5.\u003c\/strong\u003e Elfs and Witches: Oil Cleptocrats and the Destruction of Social Order in Congo-Brazzaville\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eKajsa Ekholm Friedman\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 6. \u003c\/strong\u003eConstituting Domination\/Constructing Monsters:Imperialism, Cultural Desire, and anti-Beowulfs in the Chadian Petro-state\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eStephen P. Reyna\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003ePART III: LATIN AMERICA\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 7. \u003c\/strong\u003eThe Persistent Imaginary of ‘the People's Oil’: Nationalism, Globalisation and the Possibility of Another Country in Brazil, Mexico and Venezuela\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eJohn Gledhill\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 8\u003c\/strong\u003e.“Now That the Petroleum is Ours:” Community Media, State Spectacle, and Oil Nationalism in Venezuela\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eNaomi Schiller\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 9. \u003c\/strong\u003eFlashpoints of Sovereignty: Territorial Conflict and Natural Gas in Bolivia\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eBret Gustafson\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003ePART IV. POST-SOCIALIST RUSSIA\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 10. \u003c\/strong\u003eOil Without Conflict? The Anthropology of Industrialisation in Northern Russia\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eFlorian Stammler\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 11.\u003c\/strong\u003e ‘Against… Domination’: Oil and War in Chechnya\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eGalina Khizrieva and Stephen P. Reyna\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eAfterword\u003c\/strong\u003e Suggestions for a Second Reading: An Alternative Perspective on Contested Resources as an Explanation for Conflict\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eGünther Schlee\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \tNotes on Contributors\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Berghahn Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51042209005911,"sku":"9781782380351","price":26.55,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781782380351.jpg?v=1750953449","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/crude-domination-an-anthropology-of-oil-9781782380351","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}