Le visible et l’invisible : Jalons pour une économie morale des ressources pétrolières

In this article, I seek to trace the contours of a moral economy of oil resources. To do so, I mobilize the results of a field study conducted among employees and managers of a transnational firm involved in offshore oil extraction. I demonstrate that the emotions, values and norms that they continu...

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Main Author: Pierre-Louis Choquet
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Language:fra
Published: Éditions en environnement VertigO
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/vertigo/35260
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description In this article, I seek to trace the contours of a moral economy of oil resources. To do so, I mobilize the results of a field study conducted among employees and managers of a transnational firm involved in offshore oil extraction. I demonstrate that the emotions, values and norms that they continually articulate in their work activities within the company bear in them the tensions and contradictions of the extractive complex, which material deployment is constrained by the specific features of oil resources (burial in the subsoil, location in the open sea). At last, I insist on the fact that, in order to be properly problematized, these particular moral economies must be set against the "ordinary" moral economy of the oil resource that is elaborated on the scale of industrial society as a whole – and which legitimacy is increasingly contested.
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spelling doaj.art-11d1c333cce44f6c8bfe6295f7e10ccb2024-02-13T14:09:48ZfraÉditions en environnement VertigOVertigO1492-844222110.4000/vertigo.35260Le visible et l’invisible : Jalons pour une économie morale des ressources pétrolièresPierre-Louis ChoquetIn this article, I seek to trace the contours of a moral economy of oil resources. To do so, I mobilize the results of a field study conducted among employees and managers of a transnational firm involved in offshore oil extraction. I demonstrate that the emotions, values and norms that they continually articulate in their work activities within the company bear in them the tensions and contradictions of the extractive complex, which material deployment is constrained by the specific features of oil resources (burial in the subsoil, location in the open sea). At last, I insist on the fact that, in order to be properly problematized, these particular moral economies must be set against the "ordinary" moral economy of the oil resource that is elaborated on the scale of industrial society as a whole – and which legitimacy is increasingly contested.https://journals.openedition.org/vertigo/35260offshoremoral economymaterialityoiltransnational Firms
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Le visible et l’invisible : Jalons pour une économie morale des ressources pétrolières
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moral economy
materiality
oil
transnational Firms
title Le visible et l’invisible : Jalons pour une économie morale des ressources pétrolières
title_full Le visible et l’invisible : Jalons pour une économie morale des ressources pétrolières
title_fullStr Le visible et l’invisible : Jalons pour une économie morale des ressources pétrolières
title_full_unstemmed Le visible et l’invisible : Jalons pour une économie morale des ressources pétrolières
title_short Le visible et l’invisible : Jalons pour une économie morale des ressources pétrolières
title_sort le visible et l invisible jalons pour une economie morale des ressources petrolieres
topic offshore
moral economy
materiality
oil
transnational Firms
url https://journals.openedition.org/vertigo/35260
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