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The Licit Life of Capitalism: US Oil in Equatorial Guinea

ISBN: 1478003650 ;ISBN: 9781478003915 ;ISBN: 147800391X ;ISBN: 9781478003656 ;ISBN: 1478004576 ;ISBN: 9781478004578 ;EISBN: 9781478090243 ;EISBN: 1478090243 ;EISBN: 1478004576 ;EISBN: 9781478004578 ;DOI: 10.1215/9781478004578 ;OCLC: 1126571224 ;LCCallNum: HD9578

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  • Title:
    The Licit Life of Capitalism: US Oil in Equatorial Guinea
  • Author: Appel, Hannah
  • Subjects: Africa ; Anthropology ; Central ; Cultural ; HISTORY ; Oil industries-Economic aspects-Equatorial Guinea ; SOCIAL SCIENCE
  • Description: The Licit Life of Capitalism is both an account of a specific capitalist project—U.S. oil companies working off the shores of Equatorial Guinea—and a sweeping theorization of more general forms and processes that facilitate diverse capitalist projects around the world. Hannah Appel draws on extensive fieldwork with managers and rig workers, lawyers and bureaucrats, the expat wives of American oil executives and the Equatoguinean women who work in their homes, to turn conventional critiques of capitalism on their head, arguing that market practices do not merely exacerbate inequality; they are made by it. People and places differentially valued by gender, race, and colonial histories are the terrain on which the rules of capitalist economy are built. Appel shows how the corporate form and the contract, offshore rigs and economic theory are the assemblages of liberalism and race, expertise and gender, technology and domesticity that enable the licit life of capitalism —practices that are legally sanctioned, widely replicated, and ordinary, at the same time as they are messy, contested, and, arguably, indefensible.
  • Publisher: Durham: Duke University Press
  • Creation Date: 2019
  • Format: 344
  • Language: English
  • Identifier: ISBN: 1478003650
    ISBN: 9781478003915
    ISBN: 147800391X
    ISBN: 9781478003656
    ISBN: 1478004576
    ISBN: 9781478004578
    EISBN: 9781478090243
    EISBN: 1478090243
    EISBN: 1478004576
    EISBN: 9781478004578
    DOI: 10.1215/9781478004578
    OCLC: 1126571224
    LCCallNum: HD9578
  • Source: DOAB: Directory of Open Access Books
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