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  title info:
    title: Nationalising oil and knowledge in Iran
    sub title: labour, decolonisation and colonial modernity, 1933-51
  name:
    name part: Biglari, Mattin
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: stk
    date issued: 2025
    copyright date: 2025
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (xiii, 321 pages) : illustrations.
  abstract: "Iran's nationalisation of oil in 1951 was a key catalyst for the rise of resource nationalism as an animating force of global decolonisation, expelling the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company (AIOC, now known as BP) after nearly fifty years of domination in southwest Iran. Nationalising Oil & Knowledge in Iran turns attention to the origins of nationalisation in the everyday struggles between the oil company and subaltern actors in the city of Abadan, then home to the world's largest oil refinery and deeply imbricated in networks of colonialism and racial capitalism. Engaging with energy history, postcolonial/subaltern studies, and science & technology studies, the book focuses on the politics of expertise: how nationalisation reproduced the epistemic coloniality of the oil company, which rested on local dispossession, social engineering, as well as racial and gendered segregation. It argues that nationalisation diverged from subaltern contestations of oil expertise in Abadan, which presented a more fundamental challenge to colonial modernity."--Publisher.
  abstract: How did British oil production in Iran shape both subaltern anticolonialism and colonial afterlives in the country?
  table of contents: List of figures -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: the coloniality of oil and knowledge in Iran -- Refining knowledge: building the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company and the Abadan refinery -- The city of oil: social reproduction, infrastructure and anti-colonial resistance in Abadan -- The 'character' of engineering: training, subjectivity and knowledge production in the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company -- The city of science: labour, epistemic struggle and everyday politics in the Abadan refinery, 1946-1951 -- Expertise, resource nationalism and the paradoxes of oil nationalisation in Iran -- Nationalisation from below: the 1951 General Strike -- Epilogue: Nationalised oil and the paradoxes of decolonisation -- Bibliography -- Index.
  note: Mattin Biglari.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: a-ir---
    geographic code: e-uk---
  subject:
    topic: Petroleum industry and trade
    geographic: Iran
    temporal: 20th century
  subject:
    topic: Petroleum reserves
    topic: Government ownership
    geographic: Iran
  subject:
    geographic: Iran
    topic: Foreign relations
    geographic: Great Britain
  subject:
    geographic: Great Britain
    topic: Foreign relations
    geographic: Iran
  subject:
    topic: Pétrole
    topic: Industrie et commerce
    geographic: Iran
    temporal: 20e siècle
  subject:
    topic: Pétrole
    topic: Réserves
    topic: Nationalisations
    geographic: Iran
  subject:
    geographic: Iran
    topic: Relations extérieures
    geographic: Grande-Bretagne
  subject:
    geographic: Grande-Bretagne
    topic: Relations extérieures
    geographic: Iran
  subject:
    topic: HISTORY / Middle East / Iran
  classification: HD9576.I72 B54 2025
  classification: 338.2/728209567
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      name part: Biglari, Mattin.
    origin info:
      publisher: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2025]
    identifier: (OCoLC)1445770599
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      title: Edinburgh historical studies of Iran and the Persian world
  identifier: 9781474489638 (electronic bk.)
  identifier: 147448963X
  identifier: 9781474489621
  identifier: 1474489621
  identifier: 9781474489607
  identifier: 22573/cats17708160 JSTOR
  location:
    physical location: POD
  record info:
    record content source: EBLCP
    record creation date: 250208
    record change date: 20250810211302.3
    record identifier: in00005658128
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng