Nationalising Oil and Knowledge in Iran
Labour, Decolonisation and Colonial Modernity, 1933?51
Series: Edinburgh Historical Studies of Iran and the Persian World;
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Product details:
- Publisher Edinburgh University Press
- Date of Publication 28 February 2025
- Number of Volumes Print PDF
- ISBN 9781474489607
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages pages
- Size 234x156 mm
- Language English
- Illustrations 37 black and white illustrations 700
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Short description:
How did British oil production in Iran shape both subaltern anticolonialism and colonial afterlives in the country?
MoreLong description:
Iran?s nationalisation of oil in 1951 was a key catalyst for the rise of resource nationalism as an animating force of global decolonisation, expelling the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company (AIOC, now known as BP) after nearly fifty years of domination in southwest Iran. Nationalising Oil & Knowledge in Iran turns attention to the origins of nationalisation in the everyday struggles between the oil company and subaltern actors in the city of Abadan, then home to the world?s largest oil refinery and deeply imbricated in networks of colonialism and racial capitalism.
Engaging with energy history, postcolonial/subaltern studies, and science & technology studies, the book focuses on the politics of expertise: how nationalisation reproduced the epistemic coloniality of the oil company, which rested on local dispossession, social engineering, as well as racial and gendered segregation. It argues that nationalisation diverged from subaltern contestations of oil expertise in Abadan, which presented a more fundamental challenge to colonial modernity.
Table of Contents:
List of Figures
Introduction: The Coloniality of Oil and Knowledge in Iran
1. Refining Knowledge: Building the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company and the Abadan Refinery
2. The City of Oil: Social Reproduction, Infrastructure and Anticolonial Resistance in Abadan
3. The ‘Character’ of Engineering: Training, Subjectivity and Knowledge Production in the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company
4. The City of Science: Labour, Epistemic Struggle and Everyday Politics in the Abadan Refinery, 1946-1951
5. Expertise, Resource Nationalism and the Paradoxes of Oil Nationalisation in Iran
6. Nationalisation from Below: The 1951 General Strike
Epilogue: Nationalised Oil and the Paradoxes of Decolonisation
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