Book review: the licit life of capitalism: US oil in Equatorial Guinea by Hannah Appel

Zhou, Wen (2020) Book review: the licit life of capitalism: US oil in Equatorial Guinea by Hannah Appel. USApp – American Politics and Policy Blog (23 Aug 2020). Blog Entry.

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Abstract

In The Licit Life of Capitalism: US Oil in Equatorial Guinea, economic anthropologist Hannah Appel closely examines the operations of US oil companies in Equatorial Guinea, not only revealing the sheer extent and dimensions of corporate power in remaking the world, but also illuminating the ongoing project of capitalism itself. This is a revelatory study in its theoretical contributions to the anthropology of capitalism, with a critical recentring of attention on the role of industry in shaping the politics and economics of resource extraction, writes Wen Zhou.

Item Type:	Online resource (Blog Entry)
Official URL:	https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/usappblog/
Additional Information:	© 2020 The Author(s)
Divisions:	LSE
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > HC Economic History and Conditions
Date Deposited:	05 Oct 2020 08:18
Last Modified:	14 Sep 2024 02:28
URI:	http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/106454

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