Life in the Time of Oil
Lori Leonard
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hardcover. Num Pages: 168 pages, 7 b&w illus., 3 tables. BIC Classification: GTF; JHB; KCM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 15. Weight in Grams: 413.
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 ... Read more
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Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Indiana University Press United States
Number of pages
168
Condition
New
Number of Pages
160
Place of Publication
Bloomington, IN, United States
ISBN
9780253019806
SKU
V9780253019806
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99-50
About Lori Leonard
Lori Leonard is International Professor and Associate Professor in Development Sociology at Cornell University.
Reviews for Life in the Time of Oil
Life in the Time of Oil is important, providing rich empirical insight organized in an accessible and focused analysis that interrogates the continued promotion of resource-based capitalist development in Africa today.
Africa
Overall, Leonard advances a convincing and credible argument that the failure of the oil project has not only happened at the macro level, but has also ... Read more
Africa
Overall, Leonard advances a convincing and credible argument that the failure of the oil project has not only happened at the macro level, but has also ... Read more