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List of contents
1. Space, Time, and Oil: The Global Petroleumscape PART I: Oil, Agency, and Territoriality 2. The Original North American Petroleumscape: Oil-and-Gas Empire, Petrochemical Nation 3. Petroleumscape as Battleground: Pladjoe, Pearl in the Crown of the Bataafsche Petroleum Maatschappij (BPM/Shell) in the Dutch East Indies 4. Mapping the Persian Gulf Petroleumscape: The Production of Territory, Territoriality, and Sovereignty 5. Between Visible and Invisible: Eni and the Building of the African Petroleumscape 6. The Offshore Petroleumscape: Grids, Gods, and Giants of the North Sea PART II: Oil, Materiality, and Cultural Practices 7. Arab Oil Towns as Petro-Histories 8. Building Brazil’s Petroleumscape on Land and Sea: Infrastructure, Expertise, and Technology 9. Precious Property: Water and Oil in Twentieth-Century Kuwait 10. Dimensions of the Petroleumscape in the Port and the City of Hamburg 11. “Production First, Livelihood Second”: The Life and Death of Worker-Peasant Model Villages in a Chinese Oil Field PART III: Oil Ecologies and Imaginaries 12. Energy Humanities and the Petroleumscape 13. Antwerp’s Petroleumscape: Imagining the Carbon Age 14. Power Stations and Petroleum Heritage in Italy: The Case of Porto Tolle 15. Petroleumscape as Heritage Landscape: The Case of the Dunkirk Port City Region
About the author
Carola Hein is professor of history of architecture and urban planning at Delft University of Technology. Her authored and (co-) edited books include Adaptive Strategies for Water Heritage (2019), The Routledge Handbook of Planning History (2018), Port Cities (2011), Cities, Autonomy and Decentralisation in Japan (2006), The Capital of Europe (2004), and Rebuilding Urban Japan after 1945 (2003).
Summary
Oil Spaces traces petroleum’s impact through a range of territories from across the world, showing how industrially drilled petroleum and its refined products have played a major role in transforming the built environment in ways that are often not visible or recognized.
