Flammable Societies: Studies on the Socio-Economics of Oil and Gas

Name: Flammable Societies: Studies on the Socio-Economics of Oil and Gas
Price: 27.74 USD
Availability: InStock
ISBN: 9780745331171

ISBN-10: 0745331173

ISBN-13: 9780745331171

Edition: 2012

Authors: Owen Logan, John-Andrew McNeish

List price: $35.00

30 day, 100% satisfaction guarantee!

Marketplace

3 new & used from $27.74

what's this?

Rush Rewards U
Members Receive:

You have reached 400 XP and carrot coins. That is the daily max!

Book details

List price: $35.00
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Pluto Press
Publication date: 1/6/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 384
Size: 5.31" wide x 8.46" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.122
Language: English

Owen Logan is a photographer, writer, and a research fellow at the University of Aberdeen. He is also a contributing editor to Variant Magazine.



List of Figures


Acknowledgements


Introduction



Rethinking Responsibility and Governance in Resource Extraction




Resource Sovereignties



On Curses and Devils: Resource Wealth and Sovereignty in an Autonomous Tarija, Bolivia




A Contribution to the Critique of Post-Imperial British History: North Sea Oil, Scottish Nationalism and Thatcherite Neoliberalism




Where Pathos Rules: The Resource Curse in Visual Culture




States of Collective Consumption



Development from Below and Oil Money from Above: Popular Organisation in Contemporary Venezuela




Living under the Bullet: Internal Displacement in the Azerbaijani Oil Boom




The Socio-economic Dynamics of Gas in Bolivia




Subsidised Energy and Hesitant Elites in Russia




Supply- Side Governmentality



North Sea Oil, the State and Divergent Development in the United Kingdom and Norway




A Country Without a State? Governmentality, Knowledge and Labour in Nigeria




The Race to the Bottom and the Demise of the Landlord: The Struggle over Petroleum Revenues Historically and Comparatively




Law's Role in the Tension Between Security and Sovereignty in the Field of Energy Resources




Fossil Knowledge Networks: Industry Strategy, Public Culture and the Challenge for Critical Research




Conclusion: All Other Things Do Not Remain Equal



Contributors


Index