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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Mazen LabbanPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd Imprint: Routledge Dimensions: Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.00cm , Length: 23.40cm Weight: 0.360kg ISBN: 9780415594783ISBN 10: 0415594782 Pages: 192 Publication Date: 01 June 2010 Audience: College/higher education , Tertiary & Higher Education , Undergraduate Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of Contents1. The expansion of capital, oil scarcity and the contradiction of space 2. Contradictions of capitalist accumulation: inter-capitalist competition, the production of raw material, and the contradiction of space 3. Imperialism and the geographical contradictions of monopoly capital 4. Oil in the development and decline of the Soviet Union 5. Geographical contradictions of state and capital in the development of Russian oil - competition for Russia, competition with Russia 6. Geographical contradictions of Iranian oil: capital verus the lawReviewsMazen Labban's insightful, dense, and short book applies a Marxian geographic analysis to the subject of oil with a focus on the Soviet Union, Russia, and the Iran. In doing so, he provides a fresh perspective on the causes of global price fluctuations and the geopolitics of access to the world's oil reserves. ... Labban offers an insightful analysis and challenging thesis on the place of oil within the dynamics and contradictions of capital circulation and accumulation expressed in the production of geographic integration (aka globalization) and fragmentation. --Economic Geography (vol 86, Jan 2010) Paul. K. Gellert, University of Tennessee. Mazen Labban's insightful, dense, and short book applies a Marxian geographic analysis to the subject of oil with a focus on the Soviet Union, Russia, and the Iran. In doing so, he provides a fresh perspective on the causes of global price fluctuations and the geopolitics of access to the world's oil reserves. ... Labban offers an insightful analysis and challenging thesis on the place of oil within the dynamics and contradictions of capital circulation and accumulation expressed in the production of geographic integration (aka globalization) and fragmentation. -- Economic Geography (vol 86, Jan 2010) Paul. K. Gellert, University of Tennessee. What Labban has achieved is of great merit and insight on its own terms, and to that extent we are in his debt. -- Annals of the Association of American Geographers Michael J. Watts, University of California This book certainly provides an important new entry into the political economy of oil that will be valuable to economic geography as well as resource geography graduate students. -- Antipode, Vol 43, no. 4 2011 Nayna Jhaveri, Colgate University Mazen Labban's insightful, dense, and short book applies a Marxian geographic analysis to the subject of oil with a focus on the Soviet Union, Russia, and the Iran. In doing so, he provides a fresh perspective on the causes of global price fluctuations and the geopolitics of access to the world's oil reserves. ... Labban offers an insightful analysis and challenging thesis on the place of oil within the dynamics and contradictions of capital circulation and accumulation expressed in the production of geographic integration (aka globalization) and fragmentation. -- Economic Geography (vol 86, Jan 2010) Paul. K. Gellert, University of Tennessee. Author InformationMazen Labban is Assistant Professor of Geography at the University of Miami, USA. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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