Resources for Reform

While most people live far from the sites of oil production, oil politics involves us all. Resources for Reform explores how people’s lives intersect with the increasingly globalized and concentrated oil industry through a close look at Argentina’s experiment with privatizing its national oil company in the name of neoliberal reform. Examining Argentina’s conversion from a state-controlled to a private oil market, Elana Shever reveals interconnections between large-scale transformations in society and small-scale shifts in everyday practice, intimate relationships, and identity. This engaging ethnography offers a window into the experiences of middle-class oil workers and their families, impoverished residents of shanty settlements bordering refineries, and affluent employees of transnational corporations as they struggle with rapid changes in the global economy, their country, and their lives. It reverberates far beyond the Argentine oil fields and offers a fresh approach to the critical study of neoliberalism, kinship, citizenship, and corporations.Additional ISBNs: 0804778396, 9780804778398Resources for Reform: Oil and Neoliberalism in Argentina 1st Edition is written by Elana Shever and published by Stanford University Press. The Digital and eTextbook ISBNs for Resources for Reform are 9780804783200, 0804783209 and the print ISBNs are 9780804778404, 080477840X.