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Life worlds of Middle Eastern oil : histories and ethnographies of black gold /

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Group Author: Fuccaro, Nelida (Editor); Limbert, Mandana E. (Editor)
Published: Edinburgh University Press,
Publisher Address: Edinburgh :
Publication Dates: [2023]
Literature type: Book
Language: English
Subjects:
Petroleum industry and trade > Social aspects > Middle East.
Economic history.
Petroleum industry and trade > Social aspects.
Social Conditions.
Middle East > Social conditions.
Middle East > Economic conditions.
Middle East.
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 /

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