Material Politics: Disputes Along the Pipeline

Material Politics: Disputes Along the Pipeline......Page 5
Copyright......Page 6
Contents......Page 9
Series Editors’ Preface......Page 10
Figures and Tables......Page 11
Acknowledgements......Page 12
Abbreviations......Page 15
1 Introduction......Page 17
Making Things Political......Page 23
Governing Materials......Page 28
An Experiment in Transparency and Responsibility......Page 33
The Georgian Route......Page 35
The Archive......Page 39
Overview of the Chapters......Page 43
2 The Georgian Route: Between Political and Physical Geography......Page 47
Political Fieldwork......Page 49
Geopolitics, Oil, the Caucasus......Page 52
Physical Geography......Page 59
The Pipeline Regime......Page 65
Conclusion: Political Knowledge......Page 71
3 Transparency’s Witness......Page 73
Resource Curse......Page 79
Disclosure......Page 81
Assembling Civil Society......Page 83
A Public Experiment......Page 88
4 Ethical Performances......Page 91
Ethics and Business......Page 94
Ethics, Politics and the Logic of Abduction......Page 97
Art, Research and Politics......Page 102
Conclusions: Ethics and Knowledge Controversies......Page 108
5 The Affected Public......Page 111
Disclosure......Page 116
Affected Communities......Page 118
Points and Corridors......Page 123
A Disputed Public......Page 128
Conclusions: From Affected Communities to Material Impacts......Page 130
6 Visible Impacts......Page 132
Landslides......Page 137
Vibration......Page 144
Impact and Action......Page 150
Circulations of Impact......Page 152
7 Material Politics......Page 153
Metals......Page 154
Politics......Page 159
Itinerant Practices......Page 167
8 Economy and the Archive......Page 170
Interference......Page 173
Compensation System......Page 178
Accounting for Labour......Page 187
Multiple Histories......Page 191
Geopolitical Fieldwork......Page 193
The Limits of Transparency......Page 195
Material Politics......Page 198
Coda......Page 201
1 Introduction......Page 203
2 The Georgian Route: Between Political and Physical Geography......Page 205
3 Transparency’s Witness......Page 207
5 The Affected Public......Page 208
6 Visible Impacts......Page 211
7 Material Politics......Page 213
8 Economy and the Archive......Page 214
9 Conclusions......Page 217
References......Page 218
Documents, Reports and Publicity Material......Page 241
Index......Page 251