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South Atlantic Quarterly (2007) 106 (4): 805–823.
Published: 01 October 2007
...Imre Szeman Duke University Press 2007 Imre Szeman System Failure: Oil, Futurity, and the Anticipation of Disaster Siri sipped at her coffee. “I would have thought that your Hegemony was far beyond a petroleum economy...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (2011) 110 (2): 363–383.
Published: 01 April 2011
...Carlos Salinas The A'i or Kofan people of Colombia face seemingly intractable challenges due to the extraction of oil from their lands, the ongoing conflict in Colombia, the infrastructural imperatives of globalization, and the continuing hunger for illicit drugs in cosmopolitan centers. Underlying...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (2015) 114 (1): 101–118.
Published: 01 January 2015
...Brenda Chalfin Ocean spaces are a dynamic arena of political transformation and claims-making essential to the unfolding of late capitalism. Indicative of the expanding geography of oil prospecting in the South Atlantic Ocean, the deep waters of the western Gulf of Guinea map a political economic...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (1903) 2 (3): 237–245.
Published: 01 July 1903
... was 981,264 bales. Furthermore, a large and increasing number of cotton ginneries is controlled by the cottonseed oil companies and the cotton compress associations. These consolidated con­ ditions represent large investments of capital and consequent enlargement of plants. One of these large ginneries...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (1949) 48 (2): 319.
Published: 01 April 1949
...Robert S. Smith Early Days of Oil: A Pictorial History of the Beginnings of the Industry in Pennsylvania . By Giddens Paul H. . Princeton : Princeton University Press , 1948 . Pp. viii , 150 . $6.00 . Copyright © 1949 by Duke University Press 1949 Book Reviews 3W Myers...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (1964) 63 (2): 256–258.
Published: 01 April 1964
...Murray Polner Teapot Dome. Oil and Politics in the 1920’s . By Noggle Burl . Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press , 1962 . Pp. 234 . $6.00 . Copyright © 1964 by Duke University Press 1964 256 The South Atlantic Quarterly F.P.A., Deems Taylor, who warmly acknowledge...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (2005) 104 (2): 349–357.
Published: 01 April 2005
...Janell Watson 2005 by Duke University Press 2005 Janell Watson Oil Wars, or Extrastate Conflict ‘‘beyond the Line Schmitt’s Nomos, Deleuze’s War Machine, and the New Order of the Earth There are at least three ways to read the U.S.-Iraq...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (2017) 116 (2): 408–416.
Published: 01 April 2017
...Rachel Havrelock The very phrase “modern Middle East” conjures images of military conflict, terrorism, sectarianism, and oil, yet most observers tend to separate the history of Western oil consumption from Middle Eastern wars or dismiss the whole business as wars for oil. This essay argues...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (2017) 116 (2): 417–425.
Published: 01 April 2017
...Toby Craig Jones Ensuring the flow of oil and providing security for oil producers like Saudi Arabia has long been central to American interests in the Persian Gulf. The security-for-oil argument is a formulation that obscures more than it reveals, however. The division of energy and security...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (2017) 116 (2): 426–431.
Published: 01 April 2017
...Brian Holmes This text explores the consequences of the massive flow of Canadian heavy crude oil from the Alberta Tar Sands to the Chicago metropolitan area. The boom in North American oil extraction has literally strained petroleum infrastructure to its bursting point. How do urban populations...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (2021) 120 (1): 177–188.
Published: 01 January 2021
...Joel Auerbach The necessity of immediate transition from fossil fuels has made painfully conspicuous the fact that energy sources such as solar and wind do not have the same material properties as coal and oil, and has attracted critical attention to the ways in which the social values...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (2017) 116 (2): 432–439.
Published: 01 April 2017
...Kaveh Ehsani This essay presents three snapshots of the historical politics of pipelines (oil, natural gas, and water) in Iran since the turn of the twentieth century in order to juxtapose the variegated power struggles around seemingly similar pieces of materials transport technology. Pipelines...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (2020) 119 (1): 113–132.
Published: 01 January 2020
... alternative to the perversions of oil development and the economic, social, and political crisis racking Venezuela today. The South Atlantic Quarterly 119:1, January 2020 doi 10.1215/00382876-8007689 © 2020 Duke University Press George Ciccariello-Maher The Commune Is the Plan We re not smart. We plan. We...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (2020) 119 (2): 325–352.
Published: 01 April 2020
...Kylie Benton-Connell; D. T. Cochrane Indigenous-led movements have shifted oil transport infrastructure from the margins to the center of political contestation throughout North America. These campaigns include confrontation with pipeline financiers. We argue that there are both strategic...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (2021) 120 (1): 137–150.
Published: 01 January 2021
... and challenges that the proposed E. L. Smith Solar Farm holds, as a municipal energy project, to positively disrupt oil-loyal provincial and federal power relations, specifically given the City of Edmonton’s August 2019 declaration of a climate emergency, the Wet’suwet’en cause and other solidarity blockades...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (2021) 120 (1): 163–175.
Published: 01 January 2021
...Gökçe Günel Discussions of energy in sub-Saharan Africa tend to focus on leapfrogging, theorizing how some non-Western countries might be able to avoid carbon-intensive fuels, such as coal and oil, and directly start using renewable energy infrastructure, mainly solar. While theories...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (2017) 116 (2): 402–407.
Published: 01 April 2017
... Andreas . 2016 . Fossil Capital: The Rise of Steam Power and the Roots of Global Warming . New York : Verso . Marriott James Minio-Paluello Mika . 2013 . The Oil Road: Journey from the Caspian Sea to the City of London . London : Verso . Mitchell Timothy . 2011 . Carbon...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (2021) 120 (1): 1–11.
Published: 01 January 2021
... Architecture and Solar Energy in the Cold War . Oxford : Oxford University Press . Barney Darin . 2019 . “ Beyond Carbon Democracy: Energy, Infrastructure, and Sabotage .” In Energy Culture: Art and Theory on Oil and Beyond , edited by Szeman Imre Diamanti Jeff , 214 – 28 . Morgantown...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (1932) 31 (2): 206–221.
Published: 01 April 1932
... that the free entry of Philippine sugar and coconut oil does not harmonize with his interests, and he therefore proposes the granting of immediate, absolute independence to the Philip­ pines in order to place their products on a dutiable basis. In so doing, he disregards the effect of the move upon the Filipino...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (1957) 56 (4): 516–517.
Published: 01 October 1957
... with the history of the Standard Oil trust know that restraint of trade in the transport of petroleum by rail was one of the practices condemned by the Supreme Court in 1911. Less well known is the role of pipelines in the early stages of the oil industry. This story provides, as Professor Johnson relates...