Life Worlds of Middle Eastern Oil: Histories and Ethnographies of Black Gold

ISBN-13: 9781399506144 / Angielski / Twarda / 2023

FUCCARO NELIDA

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List of Figures; Notes on Contributors; Acknowledgements; I. EXPOSING OIL; 1. Scouting for Oil in the Middle East, Nelida Fuccaro and Mandana E. Limbert; 2. ‘No Words Around to Describe’: Between Seeing and Comprehending Kuwait’s Oil Fires, Farah Al-Nakib; II. IMAGE WORLDS; VISUALISING PETROLEUM PASTS; 3. Photographing Crude in the Desert: Sight and Sense among Oil Men, Laura Hindelang; 4. The Oil Company’s Fields of Vision: Public Relations and Labour Images in the Arab World, Nelida Fuccaro; 5. Al-Bahithun: Sounds that Call to the (Oil) Fields, Ala Younis; PROJECTING FUTURES; 6. Empathy for the Graph, Arthur Mason; 7. After Oil. Rania Ghosn; III. OIL SUBJECTS; ECOLOGIES AND GENEALOGIES OF PETROLEUM KNOWLEDGE; 8. Speculative Matters: The Past and Presents of Oil in Turkey, Zeynep Oguz; 9. Petroprotein Dreams: Hydrocarbon Biotechnology and Microbial Lifeworlds in the Middle East, Doug Rogers; 10. Making Oil Men: Expertise, Discipline and Subjectivity in the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company’s Training Schemes, Mattin Biglari; NEW SPACES AND MOBILITIES; 11. Shifting Solidarities: Strikes, Indian Labour and the Arabian Sea Oil Industry, 1946-1953, Andrea Wright; 12. Gender, Domesticity and Speed: American Petro-Modernity, Nathan J. Citino; 13. Oil, Mobility and Territoriality in the Trucial States/United Arab Emirates, Muscat and Oman, Matthew MacLean; 14. Contestation and Co-optation in the Desert Landscapes of Oman, Dawn Chatty; Bibliography; Index.