Attempts to address the resource curse remain focussed on revenue management, seeking
technical solutions to political problems over examinations of relations of power. In this …

This article argues that the vernacular of development, as deployed in and about African
communities, is a racial vernacular. It is a racial vernacular of development because it is …

Zusammenfassung Eine Vielzahl von Staaten des Globalen Südens ist durch eine starke
Rohstoffabhängigkeit geprägt. Diese Länder können als Rentengesellschaften …

The article attempts to review the major ethnographic writings on mining to trace the
genealogy of anthropological engagement with resource extraction economy. The paper …

Hydrocarbon extraction, its temporal consequences, and its material implications determine
many aspects of the local lifeworld of the community members in Emiliano Zapata. Oil …

The objective of this thesis is to analyze the Iraqi politics of oil in the period from 20 th
century onwards. Within this regard, while “rentier state” conception is generally put under …

La introducción del modo de producción moderno supuso que la cuenca media del río
Magdalena transitó de un mundo mítico que se expresaba en el canto y la poesía a un …

There is an inquisitive popular and common social adage that interrogates 'What is in a
Name'? In African culture names usually encapsulate thought concepts and beliefs, describe …

This study focuses on a thoroughly post-socialist phenomenon—the becomings that
contemporary Mongolian immigrants who are moving to Los Angeles in the wake of the …

At the time of writing of this review, Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez has died and his
successor Nicolas Maduro has won a controversial election. Most news reports covering the …