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Subterranean Estates

Author : Hannah Appel
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 0801455391
Total Pages : 433 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (14 download)

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Download or read book Subterranean Estates written by Hannah Appel and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2015-06-24 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Oil is a fairy tale, and, like every fairy tale, is a bit of a lie."—Ryzard Kapuscinski, Shah of Shahs The scale and reach of the global oil and gas industry, valued at several trillions of dollars, is almost impossible to grasp. Despite its vast technical expertise and scientific sophistication, the industry betrays a startling degree of inexactitude and empirical disagreement about foundational questions of quantity, output, and price. As an industry typified by concentrated economic and political power, its operations are obscured by secrecy and security. Perhaps it is not surprising, then, that the social sciences typically approach oil as a metonym—of modernity, money, geopolitics, violence, corruption, curse, ur-commodity—rather than considering the daily life of the industry itself and of the hydrocarbons around which it is built. Subterranean Estates gathers an interdisciplinary group of scholars and experts to instead provide a critical topography of the hydrocarbon industry, understood not solely as an assemblage of corporate forms but rather as an expansive and porous network of laborers and technologies, representation and expertise, and the ways of life oil and gas produce at points of extraction, production, marketing, consumption, and combustion. By accounting for oil as empirical and experiential, the contributors begin to demystify a commodity too often given almost demiurgic power. Subterranean Estates shifts critical attention away from an exclusive focus on global oil firms toward often overlooked aspects of the industry, including insurance, finance, law, and the role of consultants and community organizations. Based on ethnographic research from around the world (Equatorial Guinea, Nigeria, Oman, the United States, Ecuador, Chad, the United Kingdom, Kazakhstan, Canada, Iran, and Russia), and featuring a photoessay on the lived experiences of those who inhabit a universe populated by oil rigs, pipelines, and gas flares, this innovative volume provides a new perspective on the material, symbolic, cultural, and social meanings of this multidimensional world.

Subterranean Matters

Author : Andrea Marston
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 1478027762
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book Subterranean Matters written by Andrea Marston and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2024-01-02 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Subterranean Matters, Andrea Marston examines the ongoing history of Bolivian mining cooperatives, an economic formation that has been central to Bolivian politics and to the country’s economy. Marston outlines how mining cooperatives occupy a contradictory place in Bolivian politics. They were major backers of left-wing president Evo Morales in 2006 and participated significantly in the crafting of the constitution that would declare Bolivia a plurinational state. At the same time, many Bolivians regard mining cooperatives as thieves because they derive personal profits from the subterranean mineral resources that are the legal inheritance of all Bolivians. Through extensive fieldwork underground in Bolivian cooperative mines, Marston explores how these miners—and the subterranean spaces they occupy—embody the tensions at the heart of Bolivia’s plurinational project. Marston shows how persistent commitment to nation and nationalism is a shared feature of left-wing and right-wing politics in Bolivia, illustrating how bodies, identities, and resources fit into this complex political matrix.

The Subterranean Railway

Author : Christian Wolmar
Publisher : Atlantic Books
ISBN 13 : 1848872534
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (488 download)

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Download or read book The Subterranean Railway written by Christian Wolmar and published by Atlantic Books. This book was released on 2012-11-01 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the Victorian era, London's Underground has had played a vital role in the daily life of generations of Londoners. Christian Wolmar celebrates the vision and determination of the 19th-century pioneers who made the world's first, and still the largest, underground passenger railway: one of the most impressive engineering achievements in history. From the early days of steam to electrification, via the Underground's contribution to 20th-century industrial design and its role during two world wars, the story comes right up to the present with its sleek, driverless trains, and the wrangles over the future of the system. This book reveals London's hidden wonder in all its glory, and shows how the railway beneath the streets helped create the city we know today.

Library of Congress Subject Headings

Author : Library of Congress
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1640 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 download)

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Download or read book Library of Congress Subject Headings written by Library of Congress and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 1640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Oil

Author : Gavin Bridge
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1509511768
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (95 download)

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Download or read book Oil written by Gavin Bridge and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2017-06-05 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Oil pulses through our daily lives. It is the plastic we touch, the food we eat, and the way we move. Oil politics in the twentieth century was about the management of abundance, state power, and market growth. The legacy of this age of plenty includes declining conventional oil reserves, volatile prices, climate change, and enduring poverty in many oil-rich countries. The politics of oil are now at a turning point, and its future will not be like its past. In this in-depth primer to one of the world’s most significant industries, authors Gavin Bridge and Philippe Le Billon take a fresh look at the contemporary political economy of oil. Going beyond simple assertions of peak oil and an oil curse, they point to an industry reordered by global shifts in demand toward Asia, growing reliance on unconventional reserves, international commitments to reduce carbon emissions, a growing campaign for fossil fuel divestment, and violent political struggles in many producer states. As a new geopolitics of oil emerges, the need for effective global oil governance becomes imperative. Highlighting the growing influence of civil society and attentive to the efforts of firms and states to craft new institutions, this fully updated second edition identifies the challenges and opportunities to curtail price volatility, curb demand and the growth of dirty oil, decarbonize energy systems, and improve governance in oil-producing countries.

Legal Chronicle Reports of Cases Decided in the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania

Author : Solomon Foster (Jr.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 454 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book Legal Chronicle Reports of Cases Decided in the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania written by Solomon Foster (Jr.) and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Land Law Directions

Author : Sandra Clarke
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192856936
Total Pages : 535 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (928 download)

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Download or read book Land Law Directions written by Sandra Clarke and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022-05-31 with total page 535 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Does land law's specialized and historic vocabulary make it hard for your students to engage? Designed to support a progressive learning experience, Land Law Directions provides a lively introduction to the subject and makes this often daunting area clear and engaging. The Directions series has been written with students in mind. The ideal guide as they approach the subject for the first time, this book will help them: - Gain a complete understanding of the topic: just the right amount of detail conveyed clearly - Understand the law in context: with scene-setting introductions and highlighted case extracts, the practical importance of the law becomes clear - Identify when and how to evaluate the law critically: they'll be introduced to the key areas of debate and given the confidence to question the law - Deepen and test knowledge: visually engaging learning and self-testing features aid understanding and help students tackle assessments with confidence - Elevate their learning: with the ground-work in place they can aspire to take learning to the next level, with direction provided on how to go further Digital formats and resources This eighth edition is available for students and institutions to purchase in a variety of formats and is supported by online resources. The e-book offers a mobile experience and convenient access along with functionality tools, navigation features and links that offer extra learning support: www.oxfordtextbooks.co.uk/ebooks The online resources are available at www.oup.com/he/landlaw directions8e/ and include: - New scenario questions aimed at helping to apply the law in practice - New animated diagrams providing visual explanation of complex topics - Guidance on answering the end-of-chapter questions - Quick fire self-test questions with answer feedback - Links to further reading suggestions - Flashcard glossary to revise key terms - Additional material and discussion of advanced topics including adverse possession, and easements and profits

Library of Congress Subject Headings

Author : Library of Congress. Cataloging Policy and Support Office
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1392 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Library of Congress Subject Headings written by Library of Congress. Cataloging Policy and Support Office and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 1392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Pennsylvania State Reports

Author : Pennsylvania. Supreme Court
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 736 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pennsylvania State Reports written by Pennsylvania. Supreme Court and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 736 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Containing cases decided by the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania." (varies)

Mines and Mining

Author : Wilson Isaac Snyder
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 794 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book Mines and Mining written by Wilson Isaac Snyder and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 794 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Mining Reports

Author : Robert Stewart Morrison
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 778 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Mining Reports written by Robert Stewart Morrison and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 778 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Atlantic Reporter

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1132 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Atlantic Reporter written by and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 1132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Offshore Attachments

Author : Chelsea Schields
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520390806
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book Offshore Attachments written by Chelsea Schields and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-05-23 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offshore Attachments reveals how the contested management of sex and race transformed the Caribbean into a crucial site in the global oil economy. By the mid-twentieth century, the Dutch islands of Curaçao and Aruba housed the world's largest oil refineries. To bolster this massive industrial experiment, oil corporations and political authorities offshored intimacy, circumventing laws regulating sex, reproduction, and the family in a bid to maximize profits and turn Caribbean subjects into citizens. Historian Chelsea Schields demonstrates how Caribbean people both embraced and challenged efforts to alter intimate behavior in service to the energy economy. Moving from Caribbean oil towns to European metropolises and examining such issues as sex work, contraception, kinship, and the constitution of desire, Schields narrates a surprising story of how racialized concern with sex shaped hydrocarbon industries as the age of oil met the end of empire.

Petrocinema

Author : Marina Dahlquist
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1501354159
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Petrocinema written by Marina Dahlquist and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2021-01-28 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Petrocinema presents a collection of essays concerning the close relationship between the oil industry and modern media-especially film. Since the early 1920s, oil extracting companies such as Standard Oil, Royal Dutch/Shell, ConocoPhillips, or Statoil have been producing and circulating moving images for various purposes including research and training, safety, process observation, or promotion. Such industrial and sponsored films include documentaries, educationals, and commercials that formed part of a larger cultural project to transform the image of oil exploitation, creating media interfaces that would allow corporations to coordinate their goals with broader cultural and societal concerns. Falling outside of the domain of conventional cinema, such films firmly belong to an emerging canon of sponsored and educational film and media that has developed over the past decade. Contributing to this burgeoning field of sponsored and educational film scholarship, chapters in this book bear on the intersecting cultural histories of oil extraction and media history by looking closely at moving image imaginaries of the oil industry, from the earliest origins or spills in the 20th century to today's post industrial petromelancholia.

A Fragile Inheritance

Author : Saloni Mathur
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 1478003383
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book A Fragile Inheritance written by Saloni Mathur and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2019-10-22 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In A Fragile Inheritance Saloni Mathur investigates the work of two seminal figures from the global South: the New Delhi-based critic and curator Geeta Kapur and contemporary multimedia artist Vivan Sundaram. Examining their written and visual works over the past fifty years, Mathur illuminates how her protagonists’ political and aesthetic commitments intersect and foreground uncertainty, difficulty, conflict, and contradiction. This book presents new understandings of the culture and politics of decolonization and the role of non-Western aesthetic avant-gardes within the discourses of contemporary art. Through skillful interpretation of Sundaram's and Kapur’s practices, Mathur demonstrates how received notions of mainstream art history may be investigated and subjected to creative redefinition. Her scholarly methodology offers an impassioned model of critical aesthetics and advances a radical understanding of art and politics in our time.

Living on a Time Bomb

Author : Svenja Schöneich
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 1800736576
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Living on a Time Bomb written by Svenja Schöneich and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2022-10-14 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Providing a holistic understanding of extensive oil extraction in rural Mexico, this book focuses on a campesino community, where oil extraction is deeply inscribed into the daily lives of the community members. The book shows how oil shapes the space where it is extracted in every aspect and produces multiple uncertainties. The community members express these uncertainties using the metaphor of the time bomb. The book shows how they find ways to "live off the time bomb" by using mechanisms of short-term coping and long-term adaptation and thus, developing the capability to determine their lives despite the ever-changing challenges.

Oil and Modern World Dramas

Author : Alireza Fakhrkonandeh
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000845966
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book Oil and Modern World Dramas written by Alireza Fakhrkonandeh and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-03-31 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first to focus on the (re-)presentations of oil in dramatic literature, theatre, and performance, Oil and Modern World Dramas is a pioneering volume in the emerging field of Oil Literatures and Cultures, and the more established field of World Literatures. Through close analysis, Fakhrkonandeh demonstrates how these dramatic works depict oil, both in its perceived nature and character, as an overdetermined matter/sign/object: a symbol (of freedom, autonomy, speed, wealth, modernity, enlightenment), a commodity, a social-cultural agent, a social relation, and a hyper-object. This book is also distinguished by its innovative and critically manifold conceptual framework, positing the petro-literatures and petro-cultures an inextricable part of a global network. Oil and Modern World Dramas not only demonstrates how the chosen works of petro-drama manifest these concepts in their social-political vision, aesthetics and historical-ontological dynamics, but also reveals how they deploy such assemblage-based approaches both as a cartographical means and aesthetic method for exposing the systemic (Capitalocenic) nature of petro-capitalist exploitation, and as means of proposing ways of resistance and producing alternative modes of subjectivity, community, relationality, and economy.