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OverviewThe impact of the oil and gas industry – paradoxically seen both as a blessing and a curse on socio-economic development – is a question at the heart of the comparative studies in this volume stretching from Northern Europe to the Caucasus, the Gulf of Guinea to Latin America. Britain’s transformation under Margaret Thatcher into a supposedly post-industrial society orientated towards consumer sovereignty was paid for with revenues from the North Sea oil industry, an industry conveniently out of sight and out of mind for many. Other case studies include resource struggles in Bolivia, oil money in Venezuela and the Azerbaijani oil boom among many others. Drawing on bottom-up research and theoretical reflection, this book questions the political and scientific basis of current international policy that aims to address the problem of resource management through standard Western models of economic governance, institution building and national sovereignty. Full Product DetailsAuthor: John-Andrew McNeish , Owen LoganPublisher: Pluto Press Imprint: Pluto Press Dimensions: Width: 13.50cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 21.50cm Weight: 0.511kg ISBN: 9780745331171ISBN 10: 0745331173 Pages: 384 Publication Date: 06 January 2012 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Out of Stock Indefinitely Availability: Awaiting stock  Table of Contents1. Introduction. Rethinking Responsibility and Governance in Resource Extraction, by Owen Logan & John-Andrew McNeish Part 1 Resource Sovereignties 2. On Curses and Devils: Resource Wealth and Sovereignty in an Autonomous Tarija, Bolivia, by John-Andrew McNeish 3. A Contribution to the Critique of Post-Imperial British history - North Sea oil, Scottish Nationalism and Thatcherite Neoliberalism, by Terry Brotherstone 4. Where Pathos Rules: the Resource Curse in Visual Culture, by Owen Logan Part 2 States of Collective Consumption 5. Development from Below and Oil Money from Above: Popular Organisation in Contemporary Venezuela, by Iselin Åsedotter Strønen 6. Living Under the Bullet: Internal Displacement in the Azerbaijani Oil Boom, by Heidi Kjærnet 7. The Socio-Economic Dynamics of Gas in Bolivia, by Fernanda Wanderley, Leila Mokrani, Alice Guimarães 8. Subsidised Energy and Hesitant Elites in Russia, by Indra Overland and Hilde Kutschera Part 3. Supply Side Governmentality 9. North Sea Oil, the State and Divergent Development in the UK and Norway, by Andrew Cumbers 10. A Country without a State? Governmentality, Knowledge and Labour in Nigeriam by Femi Folorunso, Philippa Hall, Owen Logan 11. The Race to the Bottom and the Demise of the Landlord: The Struggle over Petroleum Revenues Historically and Comparatively, by Anna Zalik 12. Law’s Role in the Tension between Security and Sovereignty in the Field of Energy Resources, by John Paterson 13. Fossil Knowledge: Networks, Industry Strategy, Public Culture, and the Challenge for Critical Research, by Bret Gustafson 14. Conclusion. All Other Things Do Not Remain Equal, by John-Andrew McNeish & Owen Logan Contributors IndexReviewsMuch ink has been spilled on the devastating consequences of the 'resource curse' in oil-producing states in the global south. McNeish and Logan take issue with this conventional wisdom by reading against one another the varied experiences of petro-states in the northern and southern hemispheres. At the heart of these empirically rich and conceptually innovative contributions is a sensitivity to the intersection of petro-state power with territoriality and forms of sovereignty, a heady mix of forces which can produce inflammable political outcomes. Flammable Societies unsettles the field of oil studies by fusing visual, textual, historical and ethnographic approaches into a powerful whole. A pathbreaking book. -- Michael Watts, Class of 63 Professor, University of California, Berkeley In their important book, McNeish and Logan take issue with conventional wisdom by reading the varied experiences of petro-states in the northern and southern hemispheres against one another to explode the overly simplified sense of good and bad oil governance. At the heart of these empirically rich and conceptually innovative contributions is a sensitivity to the intersection of petro-state power with territoriality and forms of sovereignty, a heady mix of forces which can produce inflammable political outcomes. Flammable Societies unsettles the field of oil studies by fusing visual, textual, historical and ethnographic approaches into a powerful whole. A path-breaking book. -- Michael Watts, Class of 63 Professor, University of California, Berkeley This collection offers fresh insights into the social relations of communities in which oil and gas are produced - from Scotland to Russia and Nigeria - and of resistance to oil-fuelled power. It challenges lazy, catch-all concepts about oil-producing economies and raises the standard of academic debate. -- Simon Pirani, Senior Research Fellow at the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies and author of Change in Putin,s Russia A much-needed and compelling intervention ... reaches beyond the 'resource curse, to explore the incendiary problematic of overlapping and contested 'resource sovereignties., Deftly capturing the complexity of hydrocarbon conflicts, this book analyzes crude extraction,s multiple conditions of possibility to think anew one of the more vexing concerns of our time: what might resource governance look like otherwise? -- Suzana Sawyer, University of California, Davis, author of Crude Chronicles (2004) and co-editor of The Politics of Resource Extraction (2012) Author InformationJohn-Andrew McNeish is Associate Professor at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences and Senior Researcher at the Chr. Michelsens Institute. He is the project leader of the Norwegian Research Council funded project 'Flammable Societies: The Role of the Oil and Gas Industry in the Promotion of Poverty Reduction and Social Volatility' on which the book Flammable Societies is based. Owen Logan is a photographer and writer and a Research Fellow at the University of Aberdeen where he worked with the Lives in the Oil Industry oral history project. His work has been exhibited and published widely and is in the art collection of the Scottish Parliament. He is a contributing editor to Variant magazine. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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