Book Chapter
Introduction: The Soul of Carbon Dioxide
-
Published:March 2019
This content is made freely available by the publisher. It may not be redistributed or altered. All rights reserved.
This content is only available as PDF.
References
Abdelal
, Rawi
. 2009
. “Sovereign Wealth in Abu Dhabi
.” Geopolitics
14
, no. 2
: 317
–27
.Abu-Lughod
, Janet
. 1987
. “The Islamic City—Historical Myth, Islamic Essence, and Contemporary Relevance
.” International Journal of Middle East Studies
19
: 155
–76
.Agamben
, Giorgio
. 2000
. Potentialities: Collected Essays in Philosophy
. Palo Alto, CA
: Stanford University Press
.Ahmad
, Attiya
. 2017
. Everyday Conversions: Islam, Domestic Work, and South Asian Migrant Women in Kuwait
. Durham, NC
: Duke University Press
.Akin
, William E.
1977
. Technocracy and the American Dream: The Technocrat Movement, 1900–1941
. Berkeley
: University of California Press
.Al-Nakib
, Farah
. 2016
. Kuwait Transformed: A History of Oil and Urban Life
. Palo Alto, CA
: Stanford University Press
.Altan-Olcay
, Özlem
. 2008
. “Defining ‘America’ from a Distance: Local Strategies of the Global in the Middle East
.” Middle Eastern Studies
44
, no. 1
: 29
–52
.Anker
, Peder
. 2010
. From Bauhaus to Ecohouse: A History of Ecological Design
. Baton Rouge
: Louisiana State University Press
.Appel
, Hannah
. 2012
. “Offshore Work: Oil, Modularity, and the How of Capitalism in Equatorial Guinea
.” American Ethnologist
39
, no. 4
: 692
–709
.Barnes
, Jessica
. 2014
. Cultivating the Nile: the Everyday Politics of Water in Egypt
. Durham, NC
: Duke University Press
.Bendell
, Jem
, and Doyle
Ian
. 2014
. Healing Capitalism: Five Years in the Life of Business, Finance and Corporate Responsibility
. London
: Greenleaf
.Berndt
, Ernst R.
1983
. “From Technocracy to Net Energy Analysis: Engineers, Economists, and Recurring Energy Theories of Value
.” In Progress in Natural Resource Economics
, edited by Scott
Anthony
, Heliwel
John
, Lewis
Tracy
, and Neher
P. A.
, 337
–66
. Oxford
: Clarendon Press
.Berridge
, G. R.
, and Lloyd
Lorna
. 2012
. The Palgrave Macmillan Dictionary of Diplomacy
. Houndmills, UK
: Palgrave Macmillan
.Beverly
, R.
2003
. “Editor’s Note: Your Thermostat: Trusty Friend or Two-Faced Double Agent?
” Engineered Systems
20
, no. 4
: 8
.Bloch
, Ernst
. 1988
. The Utopian Function of Art and Literature: Selected Essays
. Cambridge, MA
: MIT Press
.Blumenberg
, Hans
. 1996
. Shipwreck with Spectator: Paradigm of a Metaphor for Existence
. Cambridge, MA
: MIT Press
.Bowden
, Gary
. 1985
. “The Social Construction of Validity Estimates of US Crude Oil Reserves
.” Social Studies of Science
15
, no. 2
: 207
–40
.Bowker
, Geoffrey
. 1994
. Science on the Run: Information Management and Industrial Geophysics at Schlumberger, 1920–1940
. Cambridge
: Cambridge University Press
.Boyer
, Dominic
. 2014
. “Energopolitics: An Introduction
.” Anthropological Quarterly
87
, no. 2
: 309
–33
.Boyer
, Dominic
, and Howe
Cymene
. 2016
. “Aeolian Infrastructures, Aeolian Publics
.” Limn
7
(July
): 4598
.Brand
, Laurie
. 2001
. “Development in Wadi Rum? State Bureaucracy, External Funders, and Civil Society
.” International Journal of Middle East Studies
33
, no. 4
: 571
–90
.Bridge
, Gavin
. 2010
. “Geographies of Peak Oil: The Other Carbon Problem
.” Geoforum
41
, no. 4
: 523
–30
.Callon
, Michel
. 2007
. “An Essay on the Growing Contribution of Economic Markets to the Proliferation of the Social
.” Theory, Culture and Society
24
, nos. 7–8
: 139
–63
.Carlson
, W. Bernard
. 2013
. Tesla: Inventor of the Electrical Age
. Princeton, NJ
: Princeton University Press
.Castañeda
, Carlos
. 1968
. The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge
. Berkeley
: University of California Press
.Chatters
, C. H.
1933
. “Appendix E: Is Municipal Scrip a Panacea?
” Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics
9
, no. 2
: 323
–25
.Chatty
, Dawn
. 1996
. Mobile Pastoralists: Development Planning and Social Change in Oman
. New York
: Columbia University Press
.Chatty
, Dawn
. 2009
. “Rituals of Royalty and the Elaboration of Ceremony in Oman: View from the Edge
.” International Journal of Middle East Studies
41
, no. 1
: 39
–58
.Checket-Hanks
, B.
2003
. “Placebo Stats
.” Air Conditioning, Heating and Refrigeration News
218
, no. 13
. https://www.achrnews.com/articles/92414-placebo-stats
.Choucri
, N.
, Goldsmith
D.
, and Mezher
T.
. 2010
. “Renewable Energy Policy in an Oil-Exporting Country: The Case of the United Arab Emirates
.” Renewable Energy Law and Policy Review
1
, no. 1
: 77
–86
.Choy
, Timothy
. 2011
. Ecologies of Comparison: An Ethnography of Endangerment in Hong Kong
. Durham, NC
: Duke University Press
.Collins
, James
, Jr.1999
. “The Design Process for the Human Workplace
.” In Architecture of Science
, edited by Galison
Peter
and Thompson
Emily Ann
, 399
–413
. Cambridge, MA
: MIT Press
.Cross
, Jamie
. 2013
. “The 100th Object: Solar Lighting Technology and Humanitarian Goods
.” Journal of Material Culture
18
, no. 4
: 367
–87
.Daly
, Herman
, and Umaña
Alvaro
. 1981
. Energy, Economics, and the Environment: Conflicting Views of an Essential Interrelationship
. Boulder, CO
: Westview
.Davidson
, Christopher M.
2006
. “After Shaikh Zayed: The Politics of Succession in Abu Dhabi and the UAE
.” Middle East Policy
13
, no. 1
: 42
–59
.Davidson
, Christopher M.
2009a
. Abu Dhabi: Oil and Beyond
. New York
: Columbia University Press
.Davidson
, Christopher M.
2009b
. “Abu Dhabi’s New Economy: Oil, Investment and Domestic Development
.” Middle East Policy
16
, no. 2
: 59
–79
.Deeb
, Lara
, and Winegar
Jessica
. 2012
. “Anthropologies of Arab-Majority Societies
.” Annual Review of Anthropology
41
, no. 41
: 537
–58
.Dennis
, Michael Aaron
. 1985
. “Drilling for Dollars: The Making of US Petroleum Reserve Estimates, 1921–25
.” Social Studies of Science
15
, no. 2
: 241
–65
.Doherty
, Gareth
. 2017
. Paradoxes of Green: Landscapes of a City-State
. Berkeley
: University of California Press
.Easterling
, Keller
. 2005
. Enduring Innocence: Global Architecture and Its Political Masquerades
. Cambridge, MA
: MIT Press
.Ehrenberg
, S. N.
, and Nadeau
P. H.
. 2005
. “Sandstone vs. Carbonate Petroleum Reservoirs: A Global Perspective on Porosity-Depth and Porosity-Permeability Relationships
.” AAPG Bulletin
89
, no. 4
: 435
–45
.Ehteshami
, Anoushiravan
, Quilliam
Neil
, and Bahgat
Gawdat
. 2017
. Security and Bilateral Issues between Iran and Its Arab Neighbors
. London
: Springer
.Eichengreen
, Barry J.
[1985] 1997
. The Gold Standard in Theory and History
. New York
: Methuen
.Elsheshtawy
, Yasser
. 2008
. The Evolving Arab City: Tradition, Modernity and Urban Development
. London
: Routledge
.Elvins
, Sarah
. 2010
. “Scrip, Stores, and Cash-Strapped Cities: American Retailers and Alternative Currency during the Great Depression
.” Journal of Historical Research in Marketing
2
, no. 1
: 86
–107
.Erken
, Ali
. 2016
. “The Making of Politics and Trained Intelligence in the Near East: Robert College of Istanbul
.” European Review of History: Revue européenne d’histoire
23
, no. 3
: 554
–71
.Ewald
, François
. 1993
. “Two Infinities of Risk
.” In The Politics of Everyday Fear
, edited by Massumi
Brian
, 221
–28
. Minneapolis
: University of Minnesota Press
.Fennell
, Catherine
. 2011
. “‘Project Heat’ and Sensory Politics in Redeveloping Chicago Public Housing
.” Ethnography
12
:40
–64
.Ferguson
, James
. 1994
. Anti-Politics Machine: Development, Depoliticization, and Bureaucratic Power in Lesotho
. Minneapolis
: University of Minnesota Press
.Ferguson
, James
. 1999
. Expectations of Modernity: Myths and Meanings of Urban Life on the Zambian Copperbelt
. Berkeley
: University of California Press
.Fields
, Gary
. 2010
. “Landscaping Palestine: Reflections of Enclosure in a Historical Mirror
.” International Journal of Middle East Studies
42
, no. 1
: 63
–82
.Fischer
, Michael M. J.
2003
. Emergent Forms of Life and the Anthropological Voice
. Durham, NC
: Duke University Press
.Fortun
, Michael
. 2008
. Promising Genomics: Iceland and deCODE Genetics in a World of Speculation
. Berkeley
: University of California Press
. Fuller
, Buckminster
. [1969] 2008
. Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth
. Rotterdam
: Lars Müller
.Gardiner
, Stephen
. 2011
. A Perfect Moral Storm: The Ethical Tragedy of Climate Change
. Oxford
: Oxford University Press
.Gardner
, Andrew
. 2010
. City of Strangers: Gulf Migration and the Indian Community in Bahrain
. Ithaca, NY
: Cornell University Press
.Gatch
, Loren
. 2008
. “Local Money in the United States during the Great Depression
.” Essays in Economic and Business History
26
: 47
–61
.Gatch
, Loren
. 2012
. “Tax Anticipation Scrip as a Form of Local Currency in the USA during the 1930s
.” International Journal of Community Currency Research
16
(D
): 22
–35
.Gilbert
, Richard
, and Perl
Anthony
. 2008
. Transport Revolutions: Moving People and Freight without Oil
. London
: Earthscan
.Graeber
, David
. 1996
. “Beads and Money: Notes toward a Theory of Wealth and Power
.” American Ethnologist
23
, no. 1
: 4
–24
.Guarasci
, Bridget
. 2015
. “The National Park: Reviving Eden in Iraq’s Marshes
.” Arab Studies Journal
23
, no. 1
. .Günel
, Gökçe
. 2012
. “A Dark Art: Field Notes on Carbon Capture and Storage Negotiations at cop 17, Durban
.” Ephemera
12
, no. 1
: 33
–41
.Günel
, Gökçe
. 2014
. “Masdar City’s Hidden Brain
.” The arpa Journal
. Accessed September 25, 2014. .Günel
, Gökçe
. 2016a
. “The Infinity of Water: Climate Change Adaptation in the Arabian Peninsula
.” Public Culture
28
, no. 2
: 291
–315
.Günel
, Gökçe
. 2016b
. “What Is Carbon Dioxide? When Is Carbon Dioxide?
” PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review
39
, no. 1
: 33
–45
.Gupta
, Akhil
. 2015
. “An Anthropology of Electricity from the Global South
.” Cultural Anthropology
30
, no. 4
: 555
–68
.Guyer
, Jane
. 2004
. Marginal Gains: Monetary Transactions in Atlantic Africa
. Chicago
: University of Chicago Press
.Guyer
, Jane
. 2009
. “Composites, Fictions, and Risks: Toward an Ethnography of Price
.” In Market and Society: The Great Transformation Today
, edited by Hann
C.
and Hart
K.
, 203
–20
. Cambridge
: Cambridge University Press
.Guyer
, Jane
. 2011
. “Blueprints, Judgment, and Perseverance in a Corporate Context
.” Current Anthropology
52
, no. 3
: S17
–S27
.Guyer
, Jane
. 2015
. “Oil Assemblages and the Production of Confusion: Price Fluctuations in Two West African Oil-Producing Economies
.” In Subterranean Estates: Life Worlds of Oil and Gas
, edited by Appel
Hannah
, Mason
Arthur
, and Watts
Michael
, 237
–52
. Ithaca, NY
: Cornell University Press
.Haberly
, Daniel
. 2011
. “Strategic Sovereign Wealth Fund Investment and the New Alliance Capitalism: A Network Mapping Investigation
.” Environment and Planning A
43
, no. 8
: 1833
–52
.Haberly
, Daniel
. 2014
. “White Knights from the Gulf: Sovereign Wealth Fund Investment and the Evolution of German Industrial Finance
.” Economic Geography
90
, no. 3
: 293
–320
.Halpern
, Orit
. 2015
. Beautiful Data: A History of Vision and Reason since 1945
. Durham, NC
: Duke University Press
.Halpern
, Orit
, LeCavalier
J.
, Calvillo
N.
, and Pietsch
W.
. 2013
. “Test-Bed Urbanism
.” Public Culture
25
, no. 2
: 273
–305
.Hamdy
, Shirine
. 2012
. Our Bodies Belong to God: Organ Transplants, Islam, and the Struggle for Human Dignity in Egypt
. Berkeley
: University of California Press
.Hamilton
, William F.
, II, and Nance
Dana K.
. 1969
. “Systems Analysis of Urban Transportation
.” Scientific American
221
, no. 1
: 19
–27
.Hanieh
, Adam
. 2011
. Capitalism and Class in the Gulf Arab States
. London
: Palgrave Macmillan
.Hart
, Keith
. 2000
. “Money in an Unequal World
.” The Memory Bank
. Accessed December 22, 2014. .Helmreich
, Stefan
. 2009
. Alien Ocean: Anthropological Voyages in Microbial Seas
. Berkeley
: University of California Press
.Höhler
, Sabine
. 2010
. “The Environment as a Life Support System: The Case of Biosphere 2
.” History and Technology
26
, no. 1
: 39
–58
.Höhler
, Sabine
. 2015
. Spaceship Earth in the Environmental Age, 1960–1990
. London
: Pickering and Chatto
.Holston
, James
. 1989
. The Modernist City: An Anthropological Critique of Brasília
. Chicago
: University of Chicago Press
.Inhorn
, Marcia
. 2015
. Cosmopolitan Conceptions: IVF Sojourns in Global Dubai
. Durham, NC
: Duke University Press
.Jamieson
, Dale
. 1992
. “Ethics, Public Policy, and Global Warming
.” Science, Technology, and Human Values
17
, no. 2
: 139
–53
.Jones
, Toby Craig
. 2010
. Desert Kingdom: How Oil and Water Forged Modern Saudi Arabia
. Cambridge, MA
: Harvard University Press
.Kanna
, Ahmed
. 2011
. Dubai, the City as Corporation
. Minneapolis
: University of Minnesota Press
.Keane
, David
, and McGeehan
Nicholas
. 2008
. “Enforcing Migrant Workers’ Rights in the United Arab Emirates
.” International Journal on Minority and Group Rights
15
, no. 1
: 81
–115
.Khalaf
, Sulayman
, and Alkobaisi
Saad
. 1999
. “Migrants’ Strategies of Coping and Patterns of Accommodation in the Oil-Rich Gulf Societies: Evidence from the UAE
.” British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies
26
, no. 2
: 271
–98
.Kirk
, D.
, and Napier
D.
. 2009
. “The Transformation of Higher Education in the United Arab Emirates: Issues, Implications, and Intercultural Dimensions
.” In Nation-Building, Identity and Citizenship Education: Cross Cultural Perspectives
, edited by Zajda
J.
, Daun
H.
, and Saha
L. J.
, 131
–42
. Dordrecht, Netherlands
: Springer Science + Business Media B.V.
Klein
, Hans K.
1996
. “Institutions, Innovation, and Information Infrastructure: The Social Construction of Intelligent Transportation Systems in the U.S., Europe, and Japan
.” PhD diss., Technology, Management, and Policy Program, MIT
.Klein
, Naomi
. 2014
. This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate
. New York
: Verso
.Larkin
, Brian
. 2013
. “The Politics and Poetics of Infrastructure
.” Annual Review of Anthropology
42
: 327
–43
.Latour
, Bruno
. 1996
. Aramis, or the Love of Technology
. Cambridge, MA
: Harvard University Press
.Limbert
, Mandana
. 2010
. In the Time of Oil: Piety, Memory, and Social Life in an Omani Town
. Stanford, CA
: Stanford University Press
.Limbert
, Mandana
. 2015
. “Reserves, Secrecy and the Science of Oil Prognostication in Southern Arabia
.” In Subterranean Estates: Life Worlds of Oil and Gas
, edited by Mason
Arthur
, Appel
Hannah
, and Watts
Michael
. Ithaca, NY
: Cornell University Press
.Lipson
, Hod
, and Kurman
Melba
. 2016
. Driverless: Intelligent Cars and the Road Ahead
. Cambridge, MA
: MIT Press
.Lohmann
, Larry
. 2009
. “Climate as Investment
.” Development and Change
40
: 1063
–83
.Longva
, Anh Nga
. 1997
. Walls Built on Sand: Migration, Exclusion, and Society in Kuwait
. Boulder, CO
: Westview
.Looser
, Tom
. 2012
. “The Global University, Area Studies, and the World Citizen: Neoliberal Geography’s Redistribution of the ‘World.’
” Cultural Anthropology
27
, no. 1
: 97
–117
.Lorin
, Ritchie
, and Ray
Kathlin
. 2008
. “Incorporating Information Literacy into the Building Plan: The American University of Sharjah Experience
.” Reference Services Review
36
, no. 2
: 167
–79
.Luke
, Timothy
. 1995
. “On Environmentality: Geo-Power and Eco-Knowledge in the Discourses of Contemporary Environmentalism
.” Cultural Critique
31
: 57
–81
.Makdisi
, Karim
. 2013
. “The Rise and Decline of Environmentalism in Lebanon
.” In Water on Sand: Environmental Histories of the Middle East and North Africa
, edited by Mikhail
Alan
, 207
–29
. Oxford
: Oxford University Press
.Maurer
, Bill
. 2005a
. “Does Money Matter? Abstraction and Substitution in Alternative Financial Forms
.” In Materiality
, edited by Miller
Daniel
. Durham, NC
: Duke University Press
.Maurer
, Bill
. 2005b
. Mutual Life, Limited: Islamic Banking, Alternative Currencies, Lateral Reason
. Princeton, NJ
: Princeton University Press
.Maurer
, Markus
, Gerdes
J. Christian
, Lenz
Barbara
, and Winner
Hermann
, eds. 2016
. Autonomous Driving: Technical, Legal and Social Aspects
. New York
: Springer
.May
, Shannon
. 2008
. “Ecological Citizenship and a Plan for Sustainable Development
.” City
12
, no. 2
: 237
–44
.Mazzarella
, William
. 2010
. “Beautiful Balloon: The Digital Divide and the Charisma of New Media in India
.” American Ethnologist
37
, no. 4
: 783
–804
.Menoret
, Pascal
. 2014
. Joyriding in Riyadh: Oil, Urbanism, and Road Revolt
. Cambridge
: Cambridge University Press
.Miller-Idriss
, Cynthia
, and Hanauer
Elizabeth
. 2011
. “Transnational Higher Education: Offshore Campuses in the Middle East
.” Comparative Education
47
, no. 2
: 181
–207
.Mindell
, David A.
2008
. Digital Apollo: Human and Machine in Spaceflight
. Cambridge, MA
: MIT Press
.Mirowski
, Philip
. 1989
. More Heat Than Light: Economics as Social Physics, Physics as Nature’s Economics
. Cambridge
: Cambridge University Press
.Mitchell
, Kevin
. 2015
. “Design for the Future: Educational Institutions in the Gulf
.” Architectural Design
85
, no. 1
: 38
–45
.Mitchell
, Timothy
. 2002
. Rule of Experts: Egypt, Techno-Politics, Modernity
. Berkeley
: University of California Press
.Mostafavi
, Mohsen
, and Doherty
Gareth
. 2010
. Ecological Urbanism
. Baden, Switzerland
: Lars Müller
.Muñoz
, Jose Esteban
. 2009
. Cruising Utopia: The Then and There of Queer Futurity
. New York
: NYU Press
.Murphy
, Michelle
. 2006
. Sick Building Syndrome and the Problem of Uncertainty: Environmental Politics, Technoscience, and Women Workers
. Durham, NC
: Duke University Press
.Nagy
, Sharon
. 2000
. “Dressing Up Downtown: Urban Development and Government Public Image in Qatar
.” City and Society
12
, no. 1
: 125
–47
.Parry
, Jonathan
, and Bloch
Maurice
. 1989
. Money and the Morality of Exchange
. Cambridge
: Cambridge University Press
.Peattie
, Lisa Redfield
. 1987
. Planning, Rethinking Ciudad Guayana
. Ann Arbor
: University of Michigan Press
.Peebles
, Gustav
. 2008
. “Inverting the Panopticon: Money and the Nationalization of the Future
.” Public Culture
20
, no. 2
: 233
–65
.Pinkus
, Karen
. 2016
. Fuel: A Speculative Dictionary
. Minneapolis
: University of Minnesota Press
.Polich
, Judith Bluestone
. 2001
. Return of the Children of the Light: Incan and Mayan Prophecies for a New World
. Rochester
: Bear and Company
.Povinelli
, Elizabeth
. 2016
. Geontologies: A Requiem to Late Liberalism
. Durham, NC
: Duke University Press
.Rabinow
, Paul
. 2008
. Designs for an Anthropology of the Contemporary
. Durham, NC
: Duke University Press
.Rademacher
, Anne
. 2017
. Building Green: Environmental Architects and the Struggle for Sustainability in Mumbai
. Berkeley
: University of California Press
.Rajan
, Kaushik Sunder
. 2005
. “Subjects of Speculation: Emergent Life Sciences and Market Logics in the United States and India
.” American Anthropologist
107
, no. 1
: 19
–30
.Ramos
, Stephen J.
2010
. Dubai Amplified: The Engineering of a Port Geography
. London
: Ashgate
.Riles
, Annelise
. 2000
. The Network Inside Out
. Ann Arbor
: University of Michigan Press
.Rogers
, Douglas
. 2015
. “Oil and Anthropology
.” Annual Review of Anthropology
44
: 365
–80
.Schumacher
, E. F.
1973
. Small Is Beautiful: A Study of Economics as If People Mattered
. New York
: Blond and Briggs
.Scott
, James C.
1998
. Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed
. New Haven, CT
: Yale University Press
.Shanklin
, Elaine
. 1988
. “Beautiful Deadly Lake Nyos: The Explosion and Its Aftermath
.” Anthropology Today
4
, no. 1
: 12
–14
. Shell
, Marc
. [1978] 1993
. The Economy of Literature
. Baltimore
: Johns Hopkins University Press
.Sieden
, Steven
. 2000
. Buckminster Fuller’s Universe: His Life and Work
. New York
: Basic Books
.Slayton
, Rebecca
. 2013
. “Efficient, Secure Green: Digital Utopianism and the Challenge of a ‘Smart’ Grid
.” Information and Culture
48
, no. 4
: 448
–78
.Stamatopoulou-Robbins
, Sophia
. 2014
. “Occupational Hazards
.” Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East
34
, no. 3
: 476
–96
.Stanek
, Łukasz
. 2015
. “Mobilities of Architecture in the Global Cold War: From Socialist Poland to Kuwait and Back
.” International Journal of Islamic Architecture
4
, no. 2
: 365
–98
.Star
, Susan Leigh
. 1999
. “The Ethnography of Infrastructure
.” American Behavioral Scientist
43
, no. 3
: 377
–91
.Stark
, Laura
. 2012
. Behind Closed Doors: IRBS and the Making of Ethical Research
. Chicago
: University of Chicago Press
.Stein
, Rebecca
. 2009
. “Traveling Zion: Hiking and Settler Nationalism in Pre-1948 Palestine
.” Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies
11
, no. 3
: 334
–51
.Strathern
, Marilyn
. 1996
. “Cutting the Network
.” Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute
2
, no. 3
: 517
–35
.Svendsen
, Mette N.
2011
. “Articulating Potentiality: Notes on the Delineation of the Blank Figure in Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research
.” Cultural Anthropology
26
, no. 3
: 414
–37
.Sze
, Julie
. 2014
. Fantasy Islands: Chinese Dreams and Ecological Fears in an Age of Climate Crisis
. Palo Alto, CA
: University of California Press
.Thrift
, Nigel
. 2000
. “Performing Cultures in the New Economy
.” Annals of the Association of American Geographers
90
, no. 4
: 674
–92
.Thrift
, Nigel
. 2006
. “Re-Inventing Invention: New Tendencies in Capitalist Commodification
.” Economy and Society
35
, no. 2
: 279
–306
.Tse Kwai Zung
, Thomas
. 2002
. Buckminster Fuller: Anthology for a New Millennium
. New York
: St. Martin’s
.Tsing
, Anna
. 2015
. The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins
. Princeton, NJ
: Princeton University Press
.Valentine
, David
. 2016
. “Atmosphere: Context, Detachment, and the View from above Earth
.” American Ethnologist
43
, no. 3
: 511
–24
.Veblen
, Thorstein
. 1898
. “Why Is Economics Not an Evolutionary Science?
” Quarterly Journal of Economics
12
, no. 4
: 373
–97
.Virilio
, Paul
. 2007
. The Original Accident
. Translated by Rose
Julie
. Malden, MA
: Polity
.Vitalis
, Robert
. 2006
. America’s Kingdom: Mythmaking on the Saudi Oil Frontier
. Stanford, CA
: Stanford University Press
.von Meijenfeldt
, Ernst
, and Geluk
Marit
. 2003
. Below Ground Level: Creating New Spaces for Contemporary Architecture
. Basel
: Birkhäuser
.von Schnitzler
, Antina
. 2016
. Democracy’s Infrastructure: Techno-Politics and Protest after Apartheid
. Princeton, NJ
: Princeton University Press
.Vora
, Neha
. 2013
. Impossible Citizens: Dubai’s Indian Diaspora
. Durham, NC
: Duke University Press
.Vora
, Neha
. 2014
. “Between Global Citizenship and Qatarization: Negotiating Qatar’s New Knowledge Economy within American Branch Campuses
.” Ethnic and Racial Studies
37
, no. 12
: 2243
–60
.Vora
, Neha
. 2015
. “Is the University Universal? Mobile (Re)Constitutions of American Academia in the Gulf Arab States
.” Anthropology and Education Quarterly
46
, no. 1
: 19
–36
.Vora
, Neha
. 2018
. Teach for Arabia: American Universities, Liberalism, and Transnational Qatar
. Stanford, CA
: Stanford University Press
.Vuchic
, Vukan R.
2007
. Urban Transit Systems and Technology
. New York
: John Wiley and Sons
.Weszkalnys
, Gisa
. 2015
. “Geology, Potentiality, Speculation: On the Indeterminacy of First Oil
.” Cultural Anthropology
30
, no. 4
: 611
–39
.White
, Leslie
. 1943
. “Energy and the Evolution of Culture
.” American Anthropologist
45
, no. 3
: 335
–56
.Wilkins
, Stephen
. 2010
. “Higher Education in the United Arab Emirates: An Analysis of the Outcomes of Significant Increases in Supply and Competition
.” Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management
32
, no. 4
: 389
–400
.Williams
, Rosalind
. [1990] 2008
. Notes on the Underground: An Essay on Technology, Society, and the Imagination
. Cambridge, MA
: MIT Press
.Yalman
, Nur
. 2016
. “The Rashomon Effect: Considerations for Existential Anthropology
.” In Rashomon Effects: Kurosawa, Rashomon and Their Legacies
, edited by Davis
Blair
, Anderson
Robert
, and Walls
Jan
. New York
: Routledge
.Yergin
, Daniel
. 1990
. The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power
. New York
: Free Press
.Zahlan
, Rosemarie Said
. 1978
. The Origins of the United Arab Emirates: A Political and Social History of the Trucial States
. New York
: St. Martin’s
.
