Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Figures vii
4. Part I Generalities
5. Chapter 1 The Crazy Curse and Crude Domination: Towards an Anthroplogy of Oil 1
6. Chapter 2 Oiling the Race to the Bottom 30
7. Part II Africa
8. Chapter 3 Blood Oil: The Anatomy of a Petro-insurgency in the Niger Delta, Nigeria 47
9. Chapter 4 Fighting for Oil When There is No Oil Yet: The Darfur–Chad Border 81
10. Chapter 5 Elves and Witches: Oil Kleptocrats and the Destruction of Social Order in Congo-Brazzaville 107
11. Chapter 6 Constituting Domination/Constructing Monsters: Imperialism, Cultural Desire and Anti-Beowulfs in the Chadian Petro-state 132
12. Part III Latin America
13. Chapter 7 The People’s Oil: Nationalism, Globalisation and the Possibility of Another Country in Brazil, Mexico and Venezuela 163
14. Chapter 8 ‘Now That the Petroleum Is Ours’: Community Media, State Spectacle and Oil Nationalism in Venezuela 190
15. Chapter 9 Flashpoints of Sovereignty: Territorial Conflict and Natural Gas in Bolivia 220
16. Part IV Post–Socialist Russia
17. Chapter 10 Oil without Conflict? The Anthropology of Industrialisation in Northern Russia 241
18. Chapter 11 ‘Against … Domination’: Oil and War in Chechnya 270
19. Afterword Suggestions for a Second Reading: An Alternative Perspective on Contested Resources as an Explanation for Conflict 298
20. Notes on Contributors 303
21. Index 307