Subterranean estates : life worlds of oil and gas /

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: ProQuest (Firm)
Other Authors: Appel, Hannah, 1978- (Editor), Mason, Arthur, 1965- (Editor), Watts, Michael, 1951- (Editor), Huber, Matthew T.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Ithaca ; London : Cornell University Press, 2015.
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Table of Contents:
  • Oil for life : the Bureau of Mines and the biopolitics of the petroleum market / Matt Huber
  • Velocity and viscosity / Peter Hitchcock
  • Deep oil and deep culture in the Russian Urals / Douglas Rogers
  • Oil, masculinity and violence : Egbesu worship in the Niger Delta of Nigeria / Rebecca Golden Timsar
  • The oil archives / Andrew Barry
  • Securing the natural gas boom : oil field service companies and hydraulic fracturing's regulatory exemptions / Sarah Wylie
  • Crude contamination : law, science, and indeterminacy in Ecuador and beyond / Suzana Sawyer
  • The image world of Middle Eastern oil / Mona Damluji
  • Near futures and perfect hedges in the Gulf of Mexico / Leigh Johnson
  • Securing oil : frontiers, risk and spaces of accumulated insecurity / Michael J. Watts
  • Oil assemblages and the production of confusion : price fluctuations in two West African oil-producing economies / Jane I. Guyer
  • Offshore work : infrastructure and hydrocarbon capitalism in Equatorial Guinea / Hannah Appel
  • Black oil business : rogue pipelines, hydrocarbon dealers, and the "economics" of oil theft / Elizabeth Gelber
  • The political economy of oil privatization in post-Soviet Kazakhstan / Saulesh Yessenova
  • Carbon, convertibility, and the technopolitics of oil / Hannah Knox
  • Events collectives : the social life of a promise-disappointment cycle / Arthur Mason
  • Reserves, secrecy, and the science of oil prognostication in southern Arabia / Mandana E. Limbert
  • Vicious transparency : Contesting Canada's hydrocarbon future / Anna Zalik.