Crude Chronicles

Author : Suzana Sawyer
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822385759
Total Pages : 311 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Crude Chronicles written by Suzana Sawyer and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2004-06-07 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ecuador is the third-largest foreign supplier of crude oil to the western United States. As the source of this oil, the Ecuadorian Amazon has borne the far-reaching social and environmental consequences of a growing U.S. demand for petroleum and the dynamics of economic globalization it necessitates. Crude Chronicles traces the emergence during the 1990s of a highly organized indigenous movement and its struggles against a U.S. oil company and Ecuadorian neoliberal policies. Against the backdrop of mounting government attempts to privatize and liberalize the national economy, Suzana Sawyer shows how neoliberal reforms in Ecuador led to a crisis of governance, accountability, and representation that spurred one of twentieth-century Latin America’s strongest indigenous movements. Through her rich ethnography of indigenous marches, demonstrations, occupations, and negotiations, Sawyer tracks the growing sophistication of indigenous politics as Indians subverted, re-deployed, and, at times, capitulated to the dictates and desires of a transnational neoliberal logic. At the same time, she follows the multiple maneuvers and discourses that the multinational corporation and the Ecuadorian state used to circumscribe and contain indigenous opposition. Ultimately, Sawyer reveals that indigenous struggles over land and oil operations in Ecuador were as much about reconfiguring national and transnational inequality—that is, rupturing the silence around racial injustice, exacting spaces of accountability, and rewriting narratives of national belonging—as they were about the material use and extraction of rain-forest resources.

Author : Sonia Shah
Publisher : Seven Stories Press
ISBN 13 : 160980063X
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Crude written by Sonia Shah and published by Seven Stories Press. This book was released on 2011-01-04 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Crude is the unexpurgated story of oil, from the circumstances of its birth millions of years ago to the spectacle of its rise as the indispensable ingredient of modern life. In addition to fueling our SUVs and illuminating our cities, crude oil and its byproducts fertilize our produce, pave our roads, and make plastic possible. "Newborn babies," observes author Sonia Shah, "slide from their mothers into petro-plastic-gloved hands, are swaddled in petro-polyester blankets, and are hurried off to be warmed by oil-burning heaters." The modern world is drenched in oil; Crude tells how it came to be. A great human drama emerges, of discovery and innovation, risk, the promise of riches, and the power of greed. Shah infuses recent twists in the story with equal drama, through chronicles of colorful modern-day characters — from the hundreds of Nigerian women who stormed a Chevron plant to a monomaniacal scientist for whom life is the pursuit of this earthblood and its elusive secret. Shah moves masterfully between scientific, economic, political, and social analysis, capturing the many sides of the indispensable mineral that we someday may have to find a way to live without.

Author : Lou Dematteis
Publisher : City Lights Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cruda Realidad : Petróleo, Devastación Y Resistencia en la Amazonía written by Lou Dematteis and published by City Lights Books. This book was released on 2008-06 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An indigenous community's landmark legal case to hold Chevron accountable for its contamination of the Amazon

Author : Suzana Sawyer
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780822332725
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Crude Chronicles written by Suzana Sawyer and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2004-06-07 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVEthnographic study of indigenous opposition to processes of economic globalization, arguing that neoliberal economic reforms both provoked a crisis of governance and created the conditions for a disruptive indigenous movement in Ecuador./div

Author : Michael D. Goldhaber
Publisher : Rosetta Books
ISBN 13 : 0795343973
Total Pages : 122 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Crude Awakening written by Michael D. Goldhaber and published by Rosetta Books. This book was released on 2014-08-20 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A rip-roaring new ebook that chronicles the saga of the two [Chevron] trials . . . Shocking, appalling and hugely entertaining.”—Financial Times A behind-the-scenes look at the world’s biggest and most tangled legal case. On their way to winning a $19 billion verdict against Chevron in Ecuador, lawyers for the Amazonian plaintiffs invited a documentary film crew to record their every move. Unfortunately, their every move included fraud. Chevron subpoenas the outtakes and follows the clues from one improbable fraud to another. The drama culminates in a racketeering counter-trial, where it’s the testimony of one corrupt ex-judge against another. A detective story and courtroom drama, with an epilogue of keen commentary, Crude Awakening is the definitive account of Chevron’s struggle to prove that the truth is the truth—even when the truth is on the side of the big bad oil company, and not on the side of the charismatic little guy fighting for the indigenous people of the Amazon rain forest. Crude Awakening will captivate both students of law and students of human nature. “A superb feat of legal journalism.”—Forbes

Author : Daniel Yergin
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1471104753
Total Pages : 928 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Prize written by Daniel Yergin and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-09-11 with total page 928 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Prize recounts the panoramic history of oil -- and the struggle for wealth power that has always surrounded oil. This struggle has shaken the world economy, dictated the outcome of wars, and transformed the destiny of men and nations. The Prize is as much a history of the twentieth century as of the oil industry itself. The canvas of this history is enormous -- from the drilling of the first well in Pennsylvania through two great world wars to the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait and Operation Desert Storm. The cast extends from wildcatters and rogues to oil tycoons, and from Winston Churchill and Ibn Saud to George Bush and Saddam Hussein. The definitive work on the subject of oil and a major contribution to understanding our century, The Prize is a book of extraordinary breadth, riveting excitement -- and great importance.

Author : Derrick Hindery
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 0816502374
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book From Enron to Evo written by Derrick Hindery and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2013-06-06 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offering a critique of both free-market piracy and the dilemmas of resource nationalism, From Enron to Evo is groundbreaking book for anyone concerned with Indigenous politics, social movements, and environmental justice in an era of expanding resource development.

Author : Sandy Franks
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118082346
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Barbarians of Oil written by Sandy Franks and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-05-12 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An engaging look at the global oil industry and how to navigate the price volatility and new policies associated with it Oil is a constantly changing industry, and with the recent BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, more changes are expected. From extra equipment, higher-cost insurance, and expensive technology to mandatory third-party inspections, costly delays, and shifting investments, analysts say the price tag of regulation will be stiff and not confined to the Gulf. The oil industry affects everyone, and the machinations of a few industry heads, the "Barbarians of Oil," can drastically change the lives of investors and consumers. In Barbarians of Oil author Sandy Franks offers the tips needed to avoid future market dips and dives as well as safeguard your investments and profit in the future. Details the petro-land grab in Africa, the Bush-Halliburton Era, the Gulf Wars, and the political dangers to the United States in Iran, Iraq, and other oil-rich nations Looks at the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico and the impending long-term effects on investments and policy Explores the evolution of the modern oil industry including major corporations such as ExxonMobile, ConcoPhillips, Cheveron, and BP Barbarians of Oil is a timely must read for hard-working Americans concerned with their prosperity, as well as for those fascinated with the inner workings of the oil industry.

Author : Thea Riofrancos
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 1478012129
Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Resource Radicals written by Thea Riofrancos and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2020-07-17 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2007, the left came to power in Ecuador. In the years that followed, the “twenty-first-century socialist” government and a coalition of grassroots activists came to blows over the extraction of natural resources. Each side declared the other a perversion of leftism and the principles of socioeconomic equality, popular empowerment, and anti-imperialism. In Resource Radicals, Thea Riofrancos unpacks the conflict between these two leftisms: on the one hand, the administration's resource nationalism and focus on economic development; and on the other, the anti-extractivism of grassroots activists who condemned the government's disregard for nature and indigenous communities. In this archival and ethnographic study, Riofrancos expands the study of resource politics by decentering state resource policy and locating it in a field of political struggle populated by actors with conflicting visions of resource extraction. She demonstrates how Ecuador's commodity-dependent economy and history of indigenous uprisings offer a unique opportunity to understand development, democracy, and the ecological foundations of global capitalism.

Author : Raymond J. Learsy
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 1462018114
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Oil and Finance written by Raymond J. Learsy and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2011-05-13 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These political essays, which originally appeared in the Huffington Post, chronicle the financial and environment malfeasance of the oil industry during the last five years. Oil is a commodity that is essential to the worlds economic well-being. But it is also an industry rife with corruption. In OIL AND FINANCE, author Raymond J. Learsy chronicles the problems within the oil industry and details how these issues affect both US and global politics. Culled from a collection of essays that first appeared in the Huffington Post throughout the last five years, OIL AND FINANCE provides an illuminating understanding about where weve been and where were headed as a nation with respect to our fossil-fuel consumption, our environment, our financial system, our security, and our place on the global stage. It uncovers the truth behind oil pricingincluding its speculation and manipulation, the politics of oil and its impact on our security, oils influence on our domestic and foreign policies, OPECs success, and the menacing impact of oil on the environment. OIL AND FINANCE presents a real-time account of a nation in crisis. Filled with contemplations and reactions, it is also a call to arms and a battle plan. It communicates how we can reduce our dependence on foreign oil, develop alternative energy sources, stabilize our economy, shore up our national securityand prosper as a people.