Life in the time of oil : a pipeline and poverty in Chad /
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| Author / Creator: | Leonard, Lori, author. |
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| Imprint: | Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [2016] ©2016 |
| Description: | 1 online resource. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | E-Resource Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10780758 |
| Summary: | "[A] tale of imperial hubris, rough and tumble politics, and the duplicity of what passes as corporate social responsibility . . . important and compelling." --Michael Watts, University of California, Berkeley Life in the Time of Oil examines the Chad-Cameroon Petroleum Development and Pipeline Project--a partnership between global oil companies, the World Bank, and the Chadian government that was an ambitious scheme to reduce poverty in one of the poorest countries on the African continent.Key to the project was the development of a marginal set of oilfields that had only recently attracted the interest of global oil companies who were pressed to expand operations in the context of declining reserves. Drawing on more than a decade of work in Chad, Lori Leonard shows how environmental standards, grievance mechanisms, community consultation sessions, and other model policies smoothed the way for oil production, but ultimately contributed to the unraveling of the project. Leonard offers a nuanced account of the effects of the project on everyday life and the local ecology of the oilfield region as she explores the resulting tangle of ethics, expectations, and effects of oil as development. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 131-1141) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780253019875 0253019877 025301980X 9780253019806 9780253019837 0253019834 |