- Paperback: 384 pages
- Publisher: Pluto Press (6 Jan 2012)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0745331173
- ISBN-13: 978-0745331171
- Product Dimensions: 21.4 x 13.4 x 2.6 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 372,406 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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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) )
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) )
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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)
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