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This volume explores the ways petroleum as an industry and
substance has moulded the social, cultural and artistic life of the
Middle East. Rather than tackle the powers of this crucial resource
from the perspective of macro-economics, impersonal rentier states
and large corporations, this book 'brings oil back' into the ebbs
and flows of Middle Eastern life. It focuses on the ways petroleum
mediates and is mediated by national formations and imaginaries,
visual practices, as well as scientific, business and artistic
production. In focusing on the largest oil producing and exporting
region in the world, this volume sheds light on the effects and
affects of petroleum's presence within and beyond the oil-industry.
Before the discovery of oil in the late 1960s, Oman was one of the
poorest countries in the world, with only six kilometers of paved
roads and one hospital. By the late 1970s, all that had changed as
Oman used its new oil wealth to build a modern infrastructure. "In
the Time of Oil" describes how people in Bahla, an oasis town in
the interior of Oman, experienced this dramatic transformation
following the discovery of oil, and how they now grapple with the
prospect of this resource's future depletion.
Focusing on shifting structures of governance and new forms of
sociality as well as on the changes brought by mass schooling,
piped water, and the fracturing of close ties with East Africa,
Mandana Limbert shows how personal memories and local histories
produce divergent notions about proper social conduct, piety, and
gendered religiosity. With close attention to the subtleties of
everyday life and the details of archival documents, poetry, and
local histories, Limbert provides a rich historical ethnography of
oil development, piety, and social life on the Arabian Peninsula.
Before the discovery of oil in the late 1960s, Oman was one of the
poorest countries in the world, with only six kilometers of paved
roads and one hospital. By the late 1970s, all that had changed as
Oman used its new oil wealth to build a modern infrastructure. "In
the Time of Oil" describes how people in Bahla, an oasis town in
the interior of Oman, experienced this dramatic transformation
following the discovery of oil, and how they now grapple with the
prospect of this resource's future depletion.
Focusing on shifting structures of governance and new forms of
sociality as well as on the changes brought by mass schooling,
piped water, and the fracturing of close ties with East Africa,
Mandana Limbert shows how personal memories and local histories
produce divergent notions about proper social conduct, piety, and
gendered religiosity. With close attention to the subtleties of
everyday life and the details of archival documents, poetry, and
local histories, Limbert provides a rich historical ethnography of
oil development, piety, and social life on the Arabian Peninsula.
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