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Machineries of Oil - An Infrastructural History of BP in Iran (Hardcover)
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Machineries of Oil - An Infrastructural History of BP in Iran (Hardcover)
Series: Infrastructures
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The emergence of the international oil corporation as a political
actor in the twentieth century, seen in BP's infrastructure and
information arrangements in Iran. In the early twentieth century,
international oil corporations emerged as a new kind of political
actor. The development of the world oil industry, argues Katayoun
Shafiee, was one of the era's largest political projects of
techno-economic development. In this book, Shafiee maps the
machinery of oil operations in the Anglo-Iranian oil industry
between 1901 and 1954, tracking the organizational work involved in
moving oil through a variety of technical, legal, scientific, and
administrative networks. She shows that, in a series of
disagreements, the British-controlled Anglo-Iranian Oil Company
(AIOC, which later became BP) relied on various forms of
information management to transform political disputes into
techno-economic calculation, guaranteeing the company complete
control over profits, labor, and production regimes. She argues
that the building of alliances and connections that constituted
Anglo-Iranian oil's infrastructure reconfigured local politics of
oil regions and examines how these arrangements in turn shaped the
emergence of both nation-state and transnational oil corporation.
Drawing on her extensive archival and field research in Iran,
Shafiee investigates the surprising ways in which nature,
technology, and politics came together in battles over mineral
rights; standardizing petroleum expertise; formulas for calculating
profits, production rates, and labor; the "Persianization" of
employees; nationalism and oil nationalization; and the
long-distance machinery of an international corporation. Her
account shows that the politics of oil cannot be understood in
isolation from its technical dimensions.
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