Crude Existence - Environment and the Politics of Oil in Northern Angola

Informationen zum Autor Kristin Reed holds a Ph.D. in Environmental Science! Policy! and Management from the University of California! Berkeley. She is a program consultant to humanitarian and environmental nonprofit organizations. Klappentext After decades of civil war and instability! the African country of Angola is experiencing a spectacular economic boom thanks to its most valuable natural resource: oil. Focusing on the everyday realities of people living in the extraction zones! Reed explores the exclusion! degradation! and violence that are the fruits of petrocapitalism in Angola. Zusammenfassung After decades of civil war and instability, the African country of Angola is experiencing an economic boom thanks to its most valuable natural resource: oil. Focusing on the everyday realities of people living in the extraction zones, this work explores the exclusion, degradation and violence that are the fruits of petrocapitalism in Angola.

Product details

• Authors: Kristin Reed, Kristin O. Reed
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.02.2009
• EAN: 9780520258228
• ISBN: 978-0-520-25822-8
• No. of pages: 338
• Dimensions: 154 mm x 230 mm x 21 mm
• Series: Global, Area, and Internationa; Global, Area, and International Archive
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book; Angola, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Petroleum, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industries / Energy, HISTORY / Africa / South / General, 21st century history: from c 2000 -, 21st century, c 2000 to c 2100, African History, Petroleum & oil industries, Petroleum, oil and gas industries