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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.
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.
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