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OverviewIn this highly original work, historian Chelsea Schields illuminates 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. Offshore Attachments reveals that, from boom to bust, Caribbean people challenged and embraced efforts to alter intimate behaviors in service of the energy economy, molding the industry from the ground up. 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. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Chelsea SchieldsPublisher: University of California Press Imprint: University of California Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.454kg ISBN: 9780520390812ISBN 10: 0520390814 Pages: 304 Publication Date: 18 April 2023 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Out of stock  The supplier is temporarily out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you on backorder and shipped when it becomes available. Table of ContentsContents List of Illustrations Abbreviations Introduction: “Oil Is the Lubricant” 1. Crude Bargains: Sex and the Making of an Oil Economy 2. Diminishing Returns: Domesticity on the Edge of Whiteness 3. Manufacturing Surplus: Population and Development in the Downstream 4. “Sexuality, Yes! Slavery, No!”: Erotic Rebellion and Economic Freedom 5. Dutch Diseases: Race, Welfare, and the Quantification of Kinship Conclusion: Acts of Attachment Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography IndexReviews""The book…is grounded in impressive, multi-archival, and multilingual research showcasing a wide range of primary sources that include local publications, personal recollections, oral interviews, governmental papers, and private companies’ studies and reports."" * H-Net Reviews * ""This account of twentieth-century oil production in the Dutch Caribbean historicizes the making of the oil industry, but also historicizes the making of racialization and of sexual practices and mores."" * Logos * ""Schield's book makes a noteworthy contribution to the field of Caribbean History. Providing rich opportunities to account for the historicity of such seemingly innate and transparent categories as race and sexuality."" * Journal of Caribbean History * """The book…is grounded in impressive, multi-archival, and multilingual research showcasing a wide range of primary sources that include local publications, personal recollections, oral interviews, governmental papers, and private companies’ studies and reports."" * H-Net Reviews * ""This account of twentieth-century oil production in the Dutch Caribbean historicizes the making of the oil industry, but also historicizes the making of racialization and of sexual practices and mores."" * Logos *" Author InformationChelsea Schields is Associate Professor of History at the University of California, Irvine. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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