Life worlds of Middle Eastern oil : histories and ethnographies of black gold /
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Edinburgh University Press,
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Publisher Address: | Edinburgh : |
Publication Dates: | [2023] |
Literature type: | Book |
Language: | English |
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Carrier Form: | xvii, 395 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 24 cm |
Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 354-377) and index. |
ISBN: |
9781399506144 1399506145 |
Index Number: | HD9576 |
CLC: | F437.062-05 |
Call Number: | F437.062-05/L722 |
Contents: |
Scouting for oil in the Middle East / 'No words around to describe' : between seeing and comprehending Kuwait's oil fires / Photographing crude in the desert : sight and sense among oil men / The oil company's fields of vision : public relations and labour images in the Arab world / Al-Bahithun : sounds that call to the (oil) fields / Empathy for the graph / After oil / Speculative matters : the pasts and presents of oil in Turkey / Petroprotein dreams : hydrocarbon biotechnology and microbial life worlds in the Middle East / Making oil men : expertise, discipline and subjectivity in the Anglo-Iranian oil company's training schemes / Shifting solidarities : strikes, Indian Labour and the Arabian Sea Oil Industry, 1946-1953 / Gender, domesticity and speed : American petro-modernity / Oil, mobility and territoriality in the Trucial states/United Arab Emirates, Muscat and Oman / Contestation and co-optation in the desert landscapes of Oman / |