Resources for Reform: Oil and Neoliberalism in Argentina

By: Elana Shever

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Synopsis: 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.

Book Quality:: Publisher Quality
ISBN-13:: 9780804783200
Related ISBNs:: 9780804778398, 9780804778404
Publisher:: Stanford University Press
Date of Addition:: 05/17/17
Copyrighted By:: Elana Shever
Adult content:: No
Language:: English
Has Image Descriptions:: No
Categories:: Nonfiction, Technology, Social Studies, Politics and Government
Submitted By:: Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:: This is a copyrighted book.