Review Article: Oil and Social Movements

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Timothy Mitchell: Carbon Democracy: Political Power in the Age of Oil, London/New York: Verso, 2011, ISBN 13: 978 – 1781681169, 288 pp.

C. I. Obi/Siri Aas Rustad: Oil and Insurgency in the Niger Delta. Managing the Complex Politics of Petro-Violence, London/New York: Zed Books, 2011, ISBN: 9781848138070, 255 pp.

Michael Lewin Ross: The Oil Curse: How Petroleum Wealth Shapes the Development of Nations, New York: Princeton University Press, 2012, ISBN: 9780691159638, 312 pp.

Brian Black: Crude Reality: Petroleum in World History, Lanham et. al.: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2012, ISBN: 978 – 0742556546, 288 pp.