Resources for Reform : Oil and Neoliberalism in Argentina

English

ISBN: 080477840X

EAN: 9780804778404

Category: Social Science / Anthropology / General/Technology & Engineering / Petroleum/Political Science / Civics & Citizenship/Political Science / International Relations / General/Political Science / Political Process / Political Advocacy/

Publisher: Stanford University Press

Release Date: 08/31/2012

Synopsis: While most people live far from the sites of oil production, oil politics involves us all. Resources for Reformexplores how peoples lives intersect with the increasingly globalized and concentrated oil industry through a close look at Argentinas experiment with privatizing its national oil company in the name of neoliberal reform. Examining Argentinas conversion of its state-controlled oil market to a private market, Elana Shever reveals interconnections between large-scale transformations in society and small-scale shifts in everyday practice, intimate relationships, and identity. This engaging ethnography offers a window into the experiences of middle-class oil workers and their families, impoverished residents of shanty settlements bordering refineries, and affluent employees of transnational corporations as they struggle with rapid changes in the global economy, their country, and their lives. It reverberates far beyond the Argentine oil fields and offers a fresh approach to the critical study of neoliberalism, kinship, citizenship, and corporations.

Resources for Reform : Oil and Neoliberalism in Argentina

Illustrated: No

Format: Paperback

Height: 0.9 inches

Width: 6.0 inches

Length: 9.0 inches

Pages: 248