5-0870 COLONIAL LEGACIES, CONTEMPORARY IMAGINARIES, AND THE SPACE SURROUNDING OIL AND GAS EXTRACTION SITES AND OFFICES

Saturday, November 19, 2011: 16:00-17:45

Abstract not available in preliminary program.

This session would be of particular interest to:
Students, Teachers of Anthropology in Community Colleges, Practicing and Applied Anthropologists

Organizers: Remy Rouillard (McGill University)

Chairs: Tanya L Richardson (Wilfrid Laurier University)

Discussants: Stephen P Reyna (University of Manchester)

16:00

Discordant Developments: Imagining 'partnership' and Experiencing Exclusion In Chevron's Bangladesh Borderlands

Katy Gardner (UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX)

16:15

Reimagining Land Use, Value and Aboriginal-Industry Relationships In Northeastern British Columbia Through Traditional Land Use Studies

Gretchen Fox (CTQ Consultants, Ltd.)

16:30

Eruptions of Subsistence and Oil In Arctic Alaska

Courtney L Carothers (University of Alaska Fairbanks)

16:45

Fuel and Power In River City: Cosmologies of Alaskan Natural Gas

Chelsea Chapman (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

17:00

Title: “the Flames of Shell Are Flames of Hell”: Metaphor, Memory, and Imagination of Gas Flaring and Shifting Cosmology In the Niger Delta of Nigeria

Victor Ogbonnaya Okorie (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

17:15

Double(d) Lives and Social Spaces of Long-Distance Commute Workers In the Russian Oil and Gas Industry

Gertrude Eilmsteiner-Saxinger (U of Vienna, Dep. for Geography & Dep. for Anthropology)

17:30

Discussant

Stephen P Reyna (University of Manchester)

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