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Record Nr.

UNINA9910452588503321

Autore

Shever Elana

Titolo

Resources for reform [[electronic resource] ] : oil and neoliberalism in Argentina / / Elana Shever

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Stanford, California, : Stanford University Press, 2012

ISBN

0-8047-8320-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (249 p.)

Disciplina

338.2/72820982

Soggetti

Citizenship - Argentina

Kinship - Political aspects - Argentina

Neoliberalism - Argentina

Petroleum industry and trade - Political aspects - Argentina

Petroleum industry and trade - Social aspects - Argentina

Protest movements - Argentina

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Oil and Neoliberalism in Argentina; Part I. Neoliberal Kinship; 1. Affective Reform; 2. Creating a Privatized Public; Part II. Petroleum Citizenship; 3. Fueling Consumer Citizenship; 4. Creating Bonds; Conclusion: The Neoliberal Family and the Corporate Effect; Notes; References; Index

Sommario/riassunto

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 ident