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While most people live far from the sites of oil production, oil
politics involves us all. "Resources for Reform" explores how
people's lives intersect with the increasingly globalized and
concentrated oil industry through a close look at Argentina's
experiment with privatizing its national oil company in the name of
neoliberal reform.
Examining Argentina's conversion from a state-controlled to a
private oil market, Elana Shever reveals interconnections between
large-scale transformations in society and small-scale shifts in
everyday practice, intimate relationships, and identity. This
engaging ethnography offers a window into the experiences of
middle-class oil workers and their families, impoverished residents
of shanty settlements bordering refineries, and affluent employees
of transnational corporations as they struggle with rapid changes
in the global economy, their country, and their lives. It
reverberates far beyond the Argentine oil fields and offers a fresh
approach to the critical study of neoliberalism, kinship,
citizenship, and corporations.
While most people live far from the sites of oil production, oil
politics involves us all. "Resources for Reform" explores how
people's lives intersect with the increasingly globalized and
concentrated oil industry through a close look at Argentina's
experiment with privatizing its national oil company in the name of
neoliberal reform.
Examining Argentina's conversion from a state-controlled to a
private oil market, Elana Shever reveals interconnections between
large-scale transformations in society and small-scale shifts in
everyday practice, intimate relationships, and identity. This
engaging ethnography offers a window into the experiences of
middle-class oil workers and their families, impoverished residents
of shanty settlements bordering refineries, and affluent employees
of transnational corporations as they struggle with rapid changes
in the global economy, their country, and their lives. It
reverberates far beyond the Argentine oil fields and offers a fresh
approach to the critical study of neoliberalism, kinship,
citizenship, and corporations.
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