Crude Existence: Environment and the Politics of Oil in Northern Angola (Global, Area, and International Archive)

Crude Existence: Environment and the Politics of Oil in Northern Angola (Global, Area, and International Archive)

by Kristin Reed (Author)

Synopsis

After decades of civil war and instability, the African country of Angola is experiencing an economic boom thanks to its most valuable natural resource: oil. Focusing on the everyday realities of people living in the extraction zones, this work explores the exclusion, degradation and violence that are the fruits of petrocapitalism in Angola.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 338
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 24 Nov 2009

ISBN 10: 0520258223
ISBN 13: 9780520258228