Offshore Attachments : Oil and Intimacy in the Caribbean

Schields, Chelsea

University of California Press（2023/04発売）

University of California Press（2023/04発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 304 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780520390812
• DDC分類 338.2728209729

Full Description

Offshore Attachments reveals how the contested management of sex and race transformed the Caribbean into a crucial site in the global oil economy. By the mid-twentieth century, the Dutch islands of Curaçao and Aruba housed the world's largest oil refineries. To bolster this massive industrial experiment, oil corporations and political authorities offshored intimacy, circumventing laws regulating sex, reproduction, and the family in a bid to maximize profits and turn Caribbean subjects into citizens. Historian Chelsea Schields demonstrates how Caribbean people both embraced and challenged efforts to alter intimate behavior in service to the energy economy. Moving from Caribbean oil towns to European metropolises and examining such issues as sex work, contraception, kinship, and the constitution of desire, Schields narrates a surprising story of how racialized concern with sex shaped hydrocarbon industries as the age of oil met the end of empire.

Contents

Contents

List of Illustrations 
Abbreviations 

Introduction: "Oil Is the Lubricant" 

1. Crude Bargains: Sex and the Making of an Oil Economy 
2. Diminishing Returns: Domesticity on the Edge of Whiteness 
3. Manufacturing Surplus: Population and Development in the Downstream 
4. "Sexuality, Yes! Slavery, No!": Erotic Rebellion and Economic Freedom 
5. Dutch Diseases: Race, Welfare, and the Quantification of Kinship 
Conclusion: Acts of Attachment 

Acknowledgments 
Notes 
Bibliography 
Index