Life in the time of oil : a pipeline and poverty in Chad / Lori Leonard.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Leonard, Lori, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Projet pétrolier et d'oléoduc Tchad-Cameroun.

Petroleum industry and trade--Chad.

Petroleum industry and trade.

Petroleum pipelines--Social aspects--Chad.

Petroleum pipelines.

Poverty--Chad.

Poverty.

Social aspects.

Chad.

Physical Description:

xi, 149 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [2016]

Summary:

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 sessions, and other model policies smoothed the way for oil production, but ultimately contributed to the unraveling of the project. Leonard offers a nuanced account of the effects of the project on everyday life and the local ecology of the oilfield region as she explores the resulting tangle of ethics, expectations, and effect of oil as development. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 An Experiment in Development 1

2 Dead Letters 21

3 Becoming "Eligible" 43

4 Ties That Bind 66

5 In the Midst of Things 89

6 Footprints 111.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 131-1141) and index.

ISBN:

025301980X

9780253019806

9780253019837

0253019834

OCLC:

919341816