4-0300 THE PARTICULAR CONJUNCTURE: OIL, CRISIS, AND THEORY

Friday, November 18, 2011: 08:00-11:45

Abstract not available in preliminary program.

This session would be of particular interest to:
Students, Practicing and Applied Anthropologists

Organizers: Andrea Behrends (Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg) and Stephen P Reyna (University of Manchester)

Chairs: Veronica Davidov (Maastricht University)

Discussants: John E Gledhill (The University of Manchester) and Jonathan Friedman (EHESS (IRIS))

08:00

Oiling the Race to the Bottom

Jonathan Friedman (EHESS (IRIS))

08:15

Re-Considering the Curse of Oil Between the Material and the Imagined

Gisa S Weszkalnys (University of Exeter)

08:30

Rethinking Neoliberalism: the Relationship of Peak Oil Production In the United States to Western Power

Sandy Smith-Nonini PhD (UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA, CHAPEL HILL)

08:45

Discussion

09:00

Tengiz: Reflection On Resource Curse from an Oil Enclave

Saulesh B. Yessenova (University of Calgary)

09:15

The Athabasca Tar Sands and the 'Amazon Chernobyl': Oil Lawsuits As Symbolic Narratives of Extractive Capitalism, Indigenous Sovereignty, and Contested Nature.

Veronica Davidov (Maastricht University)

09:30

Corporate Secrets, State Lies of Omission, and Local Rumours In the Arctic: Local Responses to the Extraction of Oil In the Post-Soviet Russian North

Remy Rouillard (McGill University)

09:45

Discussion

10:00

Just Cursed. Exploration Into the Formative Moments of Niger’s Oil Complex

Nikolaus Schareika (Georg-August-Universität Göttingen)

10:15

Fighting for Oil When There Is No Oil Yet!

Andrea Behrends (Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg)

10:30

Monetarization of Social Interrelations In the Oil Zone of Southern Chad: Money At the Heart of Families and Alliances

Remadji Hoinathy (Centre de Recherche en Anthropologie et Sciences Humaines CRASH)

10:45

Discussion

11:00

Two Tidemarks: Oil, Crisis, and Theory

Stephen P Reyna (University of Manchester)

11:15

Discussant

Jonathan Friedman (EHESS (IRIS))

11:30

Discussant

John E Gledhill (The University of Manchester)

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