2016
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9655.12397
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A doubtful hope: resource affect in a future oil economy

Abstract: In global debates about natural resource extraction, affect has played an increasingly prominent, if somewhat nameless, role. This paper proposes a theorization of resource affect both as an intrinsic element of capitalist dynamics and as an object problematized by corporate, government, and third-sector practice. Drawing on ethnographic research in São Tomé and Príncipe (STP), I explore the affective horizons generated by the prospect of hydrocarbon exploration: a doubtful hope comprised of visions of materia… Show more

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“…Mines, even after closure, remain an important link between past, present, and future for local communities (Halvaksz 2008; Beckett and Keeling 2019). Likewise, research on contemporary capitalist enterprises (Richard and Rudnyckyj 2009; Blanco, Arce, and Fisher 2015; Weszkalnys 2016) has highlighted the importance of affect in the production of resources, commodities, and labor. Thinking about affect also helps overcome notions of the economy as guided solely by rational means.…”
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confidence: 99%
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“…Mines, even after closure, remain an important link between past, present, and future for local communities (Halvaksz 2008; Beckett and Keeling 2019). Likewise, research on contemporary capitalist enterprises (Richard and Rudnyckyj 2009; Blanco, Arce, and Fisher 2015; Weszkalnys 2016) has highlighted the importance of affect in the production of resources, commodities, and labor. Thinking about affect also helps overcome notions of the economy as guided solely by rational means.…”
Section: Dwelling and Working In The Margins Of Capitalismmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…I want to point to other alternatives. As explained by Sebastián Ureta (2016), mining waste points to the importance of a caring relationship between humans and nonhumans in extractive activities. Ethnographic studies on small-scale mining processes and temporalities show similar results.…”
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confidence: 99%
“…The forms of affect intrinsic to resistance and protest have become an object of political, scientific, and PR action on the part of different actors (see also Weszkalnys, 2016). The UK government, for example, announced plans to pay up to £10,000 to households near fracking pads.…”
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“…: 11). Using a broader scan of the moral horizon of a resource scape, Weszkalnys (: 127) theorizes a ‘resource affect’, or the mix of anticipation, transformation, hope, and friction that variously shape the ‘affective horizons generated by hydrocarbon exploration’, which also includes the state and citizens and not strictly the capital investors. These affective stances are also anticipatory and restless, characterized by seeking to produce particular imagined futures that may result from potential investment (Muniesa ; Weszkalnys ; Zaloom ).…”
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