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- Title
Oil in Sicily: Petrocapitalist imaginaries in the shadow of old smokestacks.
- Authors
Benadusi, Mara
- Abstract
By describing the long trajectory of petrochemical industrialization in a Mediterranean area in southeastern Sicily locally known as the triangle of death, this article discusses how the widespread, long-term, and nearly invisible nature of everyday forms of catastrophe generate effects that at times are even more insidious than a major disaster. Indeed, like the fumes rising from an industrial smokestack, oil culture seeps into the imaginaries and epidermises of the people for whom petroleum represents both a blessing and a curse.
- Subjects
PETROLEUM chemicals industry; INDUSTRIAL chimneys; DISASTERS; POLLUTION; CAPITALISM
- Publication
Economic Anthropology, 2018, Vol 5, Issue 1, p45
- ISSN
2330-4847
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/sea2.12101