Life in the Time of Oil : A Pipeline and Poverty in Chad

Lori Leonard

ISBN 10: 025301980X / ISBN 13: 9780253019806

Edité par Indiana University Press Apr 2016, 2016

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

N° de réf. du vendeur 9780253019806

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• Titre: Life in the Time of Oil : A Pipeline and Poverty in Chad
• Éditeur: Indiana University Press Apr 2016
• Date de parution: 2016
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 025301980X
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780253019806
• Reliure: Buch
• État de l'article: Neu
• Dimensions: 229 L x 152 H x 11 P (en millimètres) 229 millimètres de largeur par 152 millimètres de hauteur par 11 millimètres de profondeur
• Poids: 397 grammes

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Synopsis

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.

À propos de l?auteur

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