Crude Domination (eBook)

Stephen Reyna is a Researcher at the Humanitarian and Conflict Response Institute of the University of Manchester, UK as well as a Research Associate at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology.

Günther Schlee is a Director of the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology. He is author of How Enemies are Made and Identities on the Move among other books. 

Andrea Behrends is an Assistant Professor in Anthropology at the University of Halle-Wittenberg and former Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology.

List of Figures

PART I: GENERALITIES

Chapter 1. The Crazy Curse and Crude Domination: Towards an Anthropology of Oil
Stephen Reyna and Andrea Behrends

Chapter 2. Oiling the Race to the Bottom
Jonathan Friedman

PART II: AFRICA

Chapter 3. Blood Oil: The Anatomy of a Petro-Insurgency in the Niger Delta, Nigeria
Michael Watts

Chapter 4. Fighting for oil when there is no oil yet – The Darfur-Chad border
Andrea Behrends

Chapter 5. Elfs and Witches: Oil Cleptocrats and the Destruction of Social Order in Congo-Brazzaville
Kajsa Ekholm Friedman

Chapter 6. Constituting Domination/Constructing Monsters:Imperialism, Cultural Desire, and anti-Beowulfs in the Chadian Petro-state
Stephen P. Reyna

PART III: LATIN AMERICA

Chapter 7. The Persistent Imaginary of ‘the People's Oil’: Nationalism, Globalisation and the Possibility of Another Country in Brazil, Mexico and Venezuela
John Gledhill

Chapter 8.“Now That the Petroleum is Ours:” Community Media, State Spectacle, and Oil Nationalism in Venezuela
Naomi Schiller

Chapter 9. Flashpoints of Sovereignty: Territorial Conflict and Natural Gas in Bolivia
Bret Gustafson

PART IV. POST-SOCIALIST RUSSIA

Chapter 10. Oil Without Conflict? The Anthropology of Industrialisation in Northern Russia
Florian Stammler

Chapter 11. ‘Against… Domination’: Oil and War in Chechnya
Galina Khizrieva and Stephen P. Reyna

Afterword Suggestions for a Second Reading: An Alternative Perspective on Contested Resources as an Explanation for Conflict
Günther Schlee

Notes on Contributors