Description:
This innovative, interdisciplinary volume provides a new perspective on the material, symbolic, cultural, and social meanings of the multidimensional world of the global oil and gas industry.
Brief description: Hannah Appel is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Los Angeles.
Review Quotes:
Juxtaposed between the 'intellectual vertigo' induced by this massive industry and 'oil's cynosural politics, ' the authors seek to clear away some of the 'epistemic murk' that pervades the worlds of oil and gas (p. 9).... Readers will note a meticulous focus on revealing, demystifying or engaging anew those features of the substance and the industry that have remained mostly out of the purview of examination.... The renewed engagement with oil materialities reveals important aspects of the everyday life of a resource and an industry that is as convoluted as it is complicated, powerful, destructive, ubiquitous, and ambiguous.
--Amber Murrey "Antipode"