LEADER 03588nam 22004933a 450 001 9910563169203321 005 20250204000925.0 024 7 $a10.17875/gup2018-1090 035 $a(CKB)4100000005679633 035 $a(OAPEN)1000332 035 $a(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/64544 035 $a(ScCtBLL)16c68976-f675-49e9-a3aa-2be0ef21e4d7 035 $a(OCoLC)1051778319 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000005679633 100 $a20250204i20182020 uu 101 0 $aeng 135 $auuuuu---auuuu 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 03$aAn Uncertain Future - Anticipating Oil in Uganda$fAnnika Witte 210 1$a[s.l.] :$cUniversitätsverlag Göttingen,$d2018. 215 $a1 online resource (1 p.) 225 1 $a325b3a85-5692-40e2-88d8-28681987e863 311 08$a9783863953607 311 08$a3863953606 330 $aThe discovery of oil in Uganda in 2006 ushered in an oil-age era with new prospects of unforeseen riches. However, after an initial exploration boom developments stalled. Unlike other countries with major oil discoveries, Uganda has been slow in developing its oil. In fact, over ten years after the first discoveries, there is still no oil. During the time of the research for this book between 2012 and 2015, Uganda's oil had not yet fully materialised but was becoming. The overarching characteristic of this research project was waiting for the big changes to come: a waiting characterised by indeterminacy. There is a timeline but every year it gets expanded and in 2018 having oil still seems to belong to an uncertain future. This book looks at the waiting period as a time of not-yet-ness and describes the practices of future- and resource-making in Uganda. How did Ugandans handle the new resource wealth and how did they imagine their future with oil to be? This ethnography is concerned with Uganda's oil and the way Ugandans anticipated different futures with it: promising futures of wealth and development and disturbing futures of destruction and suffering. The book works out how uncertainty was an underlying feature of these anticipations and how risks and risk discourses shaped the imaginations of possible futures. Much of the talk around the oil involved the dichotomy of blessing or curse and it was not clear, which one the oil would be. Rather than adding another assessment of what the future with oil will be like, this book describes the predictions and prophesies as an essential part of how resources are being made. This ethnography shows how various actors in Uganda, from the state, the oil industry, the civil society, and the extractive communities, have tried to negotiate their position in the oil arena. Annika Witte argues in this book that by establishing their risks and using them as power resources actors can influence the becoming of oil as a resource and their own place in a petro-future. The book offers one of the first ethnographic accounts of Uganda's oil and the negotiations that took place in an oil state to be. 606 $aSociety & social sciences$2bicssc 610 $aUganda 610 $aoil 610 $aethnography 610 $aCivil society 610 $aOil Region 610 $aPetroleum industry 610 $aResource curse 610 $aTullow 615 7$aSociety & social sciences 700 $aWitte$b Annika$01222601 801 0$bScCtBLL 801 1$bScCtBLL 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910563169203321 996 $aAn Uncertain Future$92960611 997 $aUNINA