Crude domination: an anthropology of oil

Abstract

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:A 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 Postscript: Instead of a foreword Gunther Schlee Notes on Contributors