Life in the Time of Oil

A Pipeline and Poverty in Chad

Lori Leonard (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

160 Seiten

2016
Indiana University Press (Verlag)
978-0-253-01983-7 (ISBN)

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Life in the Time of Oil examines the Chad-Cameroon Petroleum Development and Pipeline Project—a partnership between global oil companies, the World Bank, and the Chadian government that was an ambitious scheme to reduce poverty in one of the poorest countries on the African continent. Key to the project was the development of a marginal set of oilfields that had only recently attracted the interest of global oil companies who were pressed to expand operations in the context of declining reserves. Drawing on more than a decade of work in Chad, Lori Leonard shows how environmental standards, grievance mechanisms, community consultation sessions, and other model policies smoothed the way for oil production, but ultimately contributed to the unraveling of the project. Leonard offers a nuanced account of the effects of the project on everyday life and the local ecology of the oilfield region as she explores the resulting tangle of ethics, expectations, and effects of oil as development.

Lori Leonard is International Professor and Associate Professor in Development Sociology at Cornell University.

Acknowledgments
1. An Experiment in Development
2. Dead Letters
3. Becoming 'Eligible'
4. Ties that Bind
5. In the Midst of Things
6. Footprints
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	16.04.2016
Zusatzinfo	3 Tables, black and white; 7 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort	Bloomington, IN
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	240 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Allgemeine Soziologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
	Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre
ISBN-10	0-253-01983-4 / 0253019834
ISBN-13	978-0-253-01983-7 / 9780253019837
Zustand	Neuware