Crude Domination

An Anthropology of Oil
1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-0-85745-255-9
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, Band 9, 334 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 636 g

Reihe: Dislocations

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Behrends, Andrea

Reyna, Stephen

Schlee, Günther

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Konflikt- und Friedensforschung, Rüstungskontrolle, Abrüstung
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Kultur- und Sozialethnologie: Politische Ethnologie, Recht, Organisation, Identität
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Kultur- und Sozialethnologie: Materielle Kultur, Wirtschaftsethnologie
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Friedens- und Konfliktforschung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Figures

PART I: GENERALITIES

Chapter 1. The Crazy Curse and Crude Domination: Towards an Anthropology of Oil

Stephen Reyna and Andrea Behrends

Chapter 2. Oiling the Race to the Bottom

Jonathan Friedman

PART II: AFRICA

Chapter 3. Blood Oil: The Anatomy of a Petro-Insurgency in the Niger Delta, Nigeria

Michael Watts

Chapter 4. Fighting for oil when there is no oil yet – The Darfur-Chad border

Andrea Behrends

Chapter 5. Elfs and Witches: Oil Cleptocrats and the Destruction of Social Order in Congo-Brazzaville

Kajsa Ekholm Friedman

Chapter 6. Constituting Domination/Constructing Monsters:Imperialism, Cultural Desire, and anti-Beowulfs in the Chadian Petro-state

Stephen P. Reyna

PART III: LATIN AMERICA

Chapter 7. The Persistent Imaginary of ‘the People's Oil’: Nationalism, Globalisation and the Possibility of Another Country in Brazil, Mexico and Venezuela

John Gledhill

Chapter 8.“Now That the Petroleum is Ours:” Community Media, State Spectacle, and Oil Nationalism in Venezuela

Naomi Schiller

Chapter 9. Flashpoints of Sovereignty: Territorial Conflict and Natural Gas in Bolivia

Bret Gustafson

PART IV. POST-SOCIALIST RUSSIA

Chapter 10. Oil Without Conflict? The Anthropology of Industrialisation in Northern Russia

Florian Stammler

Chapter 11. ‘Against… Domination’: Oil and War in Chechnya

Galina Khizrieva and Stephen P. Reyna

Afterword Suggestions for a Second Reading: An Alternative Perspective on Contested Resources as an Explanation for Conflict

Günther Schlee

Notes on Contributors

Über Autor(innen)

Reyna, Stephen
Stephen Reyna is a Researcher at the Humanitarian and Conflict Response Institute of the University of Manchester, UK as well as a Research Associate at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology.

Behrends, Andrea
Andrea Behrendsis an Assistant Professor in Anthropology at the University of Halle-Wittenberg and former Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology.

Schlee, Günther
Günther Schlee is a Director of the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology. He is author of How Enemies are Made and Identities on the Move among other books.

Günther Schlee is a Director of the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology. He is author of How Enemies are Made and Identities on the Move among other books.