Oil has turned out to be something of a curse. Most developing petrostates have found that
their economies have worsened, their political regimes have become more authoritarian …

Crude Domination is an innovative and important book about a critical topic–oil. While there
have been numerous works about petroleum from 'experience-far'perspectives, there have …

Immanuel Wallerstein wrote of a 'systemic crisis' that he believes within twenty-five to fifty
years would produce 'disintegration of our existing historical social system'(1997: 1256) …

In addition to its established interest in the relationships among states, corporations, and
communities near extraction sites, recent anthropological and allied interdisciplinary interest …

The last two decades have witnessed an extraordinary surge in radical scholarship on oil.
Starting with Timothy Mitchell's path-breaking work on the transition from coal to oil and its …

This special issue advances the first comprehensive account of “oil culture,” the broad field
of cultural representations and symbolic forms that have taken shape around the fugacious …

In the 150 years since the birth of the petroleum industry oil has saturated our culture, fueling
our cars and wars, our economy and policies. But just as thoroughly, culture saturates oil. So …

Contemporary life is founded on oil–a cheap, accessible, and rich source of energy that has
shaped cities and manufacturing economies at the same time that it has increased mobility …

Capitalist production has not yet succeeded and never will succeed in mastering these
(organic) processes in the same way as it has mastered purely mechanical or inorganic …

Across the world, oil is invoked as a machine of destiny. Oil will make you rich, oil will make
you poor, oil will bring war, oil will deliver peace, oil will define our world as much as the …