Slow Down the Flow Talk: An Ethnography of the Transversality of Life-with-oil in Esmeraldas, Ecuador
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DOI: 10.1080/00141844.2019.1697335
Abstract: Building on Deleuze and Guattari’s theorising of transversality, this paper offers an ethnography of life-with-oil in the city of Esmeraldas, home to Ecuador’s largest oil refinery complex and a ch... read more here.
Keywords: slow flow; ecuador; transversality; life oil ... See more keywords
Life in Oil: Cofán Survival in the Petroleum Fields of Amazonia by Michael Cepek (review)
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DOI: 10.1353/anq.2019.0031
Abstract: M Cepek’s Life in Oil is a profoundly nuanced and empathetic ethnography of Cofán people in the Ecuadorian Amazon living for decades in the shadow of oil extraction. Across eight highly readable and well-paced chapters… read more here.
Keywords: life oil; cof; cepek; oil ... See more keywords