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Offshore Attachments : Oil and Intimacy in the Caribbean, Hardcover by Schiel...
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Item specifics
- Condition
- ISBN
- 9780520390805
- Book Title
- Offshore Attachments : Oil and Intimacy in the Caribbean
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Item Length
- 0.9 in
- Publication Year
- 2023
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Illustrator
- Yes
- Item Height
- 0.1 in
- Genre
- Social Science, Business & Economics, History
- Topic
- Gender Studies, Economics / General, Caribbean & West Indies / General, Latin America / General
- Item Weight
- 19.2 Oz
- Item Width
- 0.6 in
- Number of Pages
- 304 Pages
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
University of California Press
ISBN-10
0520390806
ISBN-13
9780520390805
eBay Product ID (ePID)
6058380793
Product Key Features
Book Title
Offshore Attachments : Oil and Intimacy in the Caribbean
Number of Pages
304 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Gender Studies, Economics / General, Caribbean & West Indies / General, Latin America / General
Publication Year
2023
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Social Science, Business & Economics, History
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
0.1 in
Item Weight
19.2 Oz
Item Length
0.9 in
Item Width
0.6 in
Additional Product Features
LCCN
2022-055944
Reviews
Schield's book makes a noteworthy contribution to the field of Caribbean History. Providing rich opportunities to account for the historicity of such seemingly innate and transparent categories as race and sexuality., The book...is grounded in impressive, multi-archival, and multilingual research showcasing a wide range of primary sources that include local publications, personal recollections, oral interviews, governmental papers, and private companies' studies and reports.
Dewey Edition
23
Dewey Decimal
338.2728209729
Table Of Content
Contents List of Illustrations Abbreviations Introduction: "Oil Is the Lubricant" 1. Crude Bargains: Sex and the Making of an Oil Economy 2. Diminishing Returns: Domesticity on the Edge of Whiteness 3. Manufacturing Surplus: Population and Development in the Downstream 4. "Sexuality, Yes! Slavery, No!": Erotic Rebellion and Economic Freedom 5. Dutch Diseases: Race, Welfare, and the Quantification of Kinship Conclusion: Acts of Attachment Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index
Synopsis
In this highly original work, historian Chelsea Schields illuminates how the contested management of sex and race transformed the Caribbean into a crucial site in the global oil economy. By the mid-twentieth century, the Dutch islands of Curaçao and Aruba housed the world's largest oil refineries. To bolster this massive industrial experiment, oil corporations and political authorities offshored intimacy, circumventing laws regulating sex, reproduction, and the family in a bid to maximize profits and turn Caribbean subjects into citizens. Offshore Attachments reveals that, from boom to bust, Caribbean people challenged and embraced efforts to alter intimate behaviors in service of the energy economy, molding the industry from the ground up. Moving from Caribbean oil towns to European metropolises and examining such issues as sex work, contraception, kinship, and the constitution of desire, Schields narrates a surprising story of how racialized concern with sex shaped hydrocarbon industries as the age of oil met the end of empire., Offshore Attachments reveals how the contested management of sex and race transformed the Caribbean into a crucial site in the global oil economy. By the mid-twentieth century, the Dutch islands of Curaçao and Aruba housed the world's largest oil refineries. To bolster this massive industrial experiment, oil corporations and political authorities offshored intimacy, circumventing laws regulating sex, reproduction, and the family in a bid to maximize profits and turn Caribbean subjects into citizens. Historian Chelsea Schields demonstrates how Caribbean people both embraced and challenged efforts to alter intimate behavior in service to the energy economy. Moving from Caribbean oil towns to European metropolises and examining such issues as sex work, contraception, kinship, and the constitution of desire, Schields narrates a surprising story of how racialized concern with sex shaped hydrocarbon industries as the age of oil met the end of empire.
LC Classification Number
HD9490.C272.S354
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