Subterranean Estates: Life Worlds of Oil and Gas

Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction. Oil Talk
Part I. Oil as a Way of Life
	1. Oil for Life: The Bureau of Mines and the Biopolitics of the Petroleum Market
	2. Velocity and Viscosity
	3. Deep Oil and Deep Culture in the Russian Urals
	4. Oil, Masculinity, and Violence: Egbesu Worship in the Niger Delta of Nigeria
Part II. The Oil Archive, Expertise, and Strategic Knowledges
	5. The Oil Archives
	6. Securing the Natural Gas Boom: Oil Field Service Companies and Hydraulic Fracturing’s Regulatory Exemptions
	7. Crude Contamination: Law, Science, and Indeterminacy in Ecuador and Beyond
	8. The Image World of Middle Eastern Oil
Photo Essay. Specters of Oil: An Introduction to the Photographs of Ed Kashi
Part III. Oil Markets: Turbulence, Risk, and Security
	9. Near Futures and Perfect Hedges in the Gulf of Mexico
	10. Securing Oil: Frontiers, Risk, and Spaces of Accumulated Insecurity
	11. Oil Assemblages and the Production of Confusion: Price Fluctuations in Two West African Oil-Producing Economies
Part IV. Hard and Soft Infrastructures
	12. Offshore Work: Infrastructure and Hydrocarbon Capitalism in Equatorial Guinea
	13. Black Oil Business: Rogue Pipelines, Hydrocarbon Dealers,and the “Economics” of Oil Theft
	14. The Political Economy of Oil Privatization in Post-Soviet Kazakhstan
Part V. Oil Futures and Oil Transitions
	15. Carbon, Convertibility, and the Technopolitics of Oil
	16. Events Collectives: The Social Life of a Promise-Disappointment Cycle
	17. Reserves, Secrecy, and the Science of Oil Prognostication in Southern Arabia
	18. Vicious Transparency: Contesting Canada’s Hydrocarbon Future
References
Index