‘We work for the Devil’: oil extraction, kinship and the fantasy of time on the offshore frontier
(2023)
Journal Article
Destrée, P. (2023). ‘We work for the Devil’: oil extraction, kinship and the fantasy of time on the offshore frontier. Critique of Anthropology, 43(1), 24-43. https://doi.org/10.1177/0308275x231156713
In the offshore oil industry of Takoradi, Ghana, white expatriate workers describe oil extraction as both ‘the work of the Devil’ and a ‘labour of love’. While companies strive to produce the offshore as a timeless and spaceless fantasy of ‘frictionl... Read More about ‘We work for the Devil’: oil extraction, kinship and the fantasy of time on the offshore frontier.