Resources for reform : oil and neoliberalism in Argentina / Elana Shever.

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Shever, Elana

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2012.Description: 1 online resource (xiii, 231 pages) : illustrationsContent type:

text

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computer

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online resource

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9780804783200
0804783209
0804778396
9780804778398
080477840X
9780804778404

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HD9574.A72 S47 2012eb

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Contents:

Introduction : oil and neoliberalism in Argentina -- Part I. Neoliberal kinship. Affective reform -- Creating a privatized public -- Part II. Petroleum citizenship. Fueling consumer citizenship -- Creating bonds -- Conclusion : the neoliberal family and the corporate effect.

Summary: Annotation While most people live far from the sites of oil production, oil politics involves us all.Resources for Reformexplores 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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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Annotation While most people live far from the sites of oil production, oil politics involves us all.Resources for Reformexplores 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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