African Studies Keyword

Oil

Datos Bibliográficos

ID2098549
AutoresJohn R Heilbrunn (0000-0002-0392-9558, Colorado School of Mines, autor de correspondencia)
Año2021
Volumen64
Número2
Páginas458-483
Fecha de publicación2021-06-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaAfrican Studies Review (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0002-0206 • E-ISSN: 1555-2462
EditorialCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/asr.2021.30
OpenAlexW3178027170
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas1
Referencias citadas66

Oil is a metonym for terms in books and articles in diverse disciplines in African studies. Some portray oil as a causal agent that thrusts formerly low-income countries into the highly competitive neoliberal global economy. Others present it according to the oil curse/blessing binary. As a curse, petroleum causes dysfunctional and costly behavior. But increased revenues from oil just as certainly result in concrete improvements demonstrating a resource blessing. Heilbrunn uses case materials to explore environmental degradation, oil theft, community-company relations, post-conflict reconstruction, local content in contracts, and corruption. These key concepts form a basis for the keyword/concept essay on oil in Africa

Blessing · Business · Curse · Development economics · Dysfunctional family · Economics · Economy · Language change · Natural resource · Petroleum · Petroleum industry · Political science · Resource curse · Revenue · Sociology · Engineering · Finance · History · International Development and Aid · Law · Mining and Resource Management · Natural Resources and Economic Development