{"product_id":"machineries-of-oil-katayoun-shafiee-9780262548854","title":"Machineries of Oil: An Infrastructural History of BP in Iran","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe emergence of the international oil corporation as a political actor in the twentieth century, seen in BP's infrastructure and information arrangements in Iran.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn the early twentieth century, international oil corporations emerged as a new kind of political actor. The development of the world oil industry, argues Katayoun Shafiee, was one of the era's largest political projects of techno-economic development. In this book, Shafiee maps the machinery of oil operations in the Anglo-Iranian oil industry between 1901 and 1954, tracking the organizational work involved in moving oil through a variety of technical, legal, scientific, and administrative networks. She shows that, in a series of disagreements, the British-controlled Anglo-Iranian Oil Company (AIOC, which later became BP) relied on various forms of information management to transform political disputes into techno-economic calculation, guaranteeing the company complete control over profits, labor, and production regimes. She argues that the building of alliances and connections that constituted Anglo-Iranian oil's infrastructure reconfigured local politics of oil regions and examines how these arrangements in turn shaped the emergence of both nation-state and transnational oil corporation. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDrawing on her extensive archival and field research in Iran, Shafiee investigates the surprising ways in which nature, technology, and politics came together in battles over mineral rights; standardizing petroleum expertise; formulas for calculating profits, production rates, and labor; the \"Persianization\" of employees; nationalism and oil nationalization; and the long-distance machinery of an international corporation. Her account shows that the politics of oil cannot be understood in isolation from its technical dimensions. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe open access edition of this book was made possible by generous funding from Knowledge Unlatched.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Katayoun Shafiee\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0262548852\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780262548854\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e MIT Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/15\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 360\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.16lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.80d","brand":"Katayoun Shafiee","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48443326923007,"sku":"9780262548854","price":40.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_7638606e-2cad-4344-98e7-1cf033488c79.jpg?v=1777204762","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/machineries-of-oil-katayoun-shafiee-9780262548854","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}