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Record Nr.

UNINA9910838382403321

Autore

Thomas Mary E

Titolo

Settling the Boom : The Sites and Subjects of Bakken Oil

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Boston : , : University of Minnesota Press, , 2023

©2023

ISBN

1-4529-6841-1

1-4529-6842-X

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (249 pages)

Altri autori (Persone)

BraunBruce

Disciplina

338.2/7280978473

Soggetti

Business cycles - North Dakota - Williston

Petroleum industry and trade - Social aspects - North Dakota - Williston

Petroleum industry and trade - Economic aspects - North Dakota - Williston

Electronic books.

Bakken Formation

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction: (Un)settling the Boom -- Chapter 1. The Settler Heteropatriarchy of Boomtown, USA -- Chapter 2. Bakken Aesthetics: Art and Attachment in the Era of Tough Oil -- Chapter 3. Anthropocene Realism: Genres of "Energy Independence" -- Chapter 4. Crisis Ordinariness: The Bakken Boom in Late Capitalism -- Chapter 5. On the Dark Side of the Boom: Narratives of Social Crisis and Liberal Arts of Governance -- Chapter 6. The Dakota Access Pipeline Struggle: Vulnerability, Security, and Settler Colonialism in the Oil Assemblage -- Beyond Settler Infrastructures: A Conclusion -- Contributors -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

"Settling the Boom studies how the disruptive forces of an oil boom in the northern Great Plains are contained through the extension of settler temporalities, reassertions of heteropatriarchy, and the tethering of life to the volatility of oil and its cruel optimisms. The collection reveals the results of sustained research in Williston, North Dakota, the epicenter of the "Bakken Boom.""--