Produktdetaljer
Biografisk notat
Chelsea Schields is Associate Professor of History at the University of California, Irvine."The book…is grounded in impressive, multi-archival, and multilingual research showcasing a wide range of primary sources that include local publications, personal recollections, oral interviews, governmental papers, and private companies’ studies and reports."<br />
H-Net Reviews
"This account of twentieth-century oil production in the Dutch Caribbean historicizes the making of the oil industry, but also historicizes the making of racialization and of sexual practices and mores."
Logos
"Schield's book makes a noteworthy contribution to the field of Caribbean History. Providing rich opportunities to account for the historicity of such seemingly innate and transparent categories as race and sexuality."
Journal of Caribbean History
"<i>Offshore Attachments</i> is an ambitious exploration of two understudied Caribbean islands and the role they played on a global stage."
New West Indian Guide
"The book documents intimacy vis-à-vis the global oil industry to remind us of how desire, racism, and sex continue to operate via offshore attachments well after the bust of the oil industry, e.g., in the current arrangements and organization of the tourism and leisure industry and in the Caribbean diaspora in Europe. It does so in an accessible form, through careful discourse and archival analysis, a Black feminist sensitivity, and the vantage point of two small islands in the Caribbean."
The Americas
"The author uses the understudied case study of the oil industry in the midcentury Dutch Caribbean to write a fascinating story of interest to a wide variety of scholars focused on the history of energy and fossil fuels, empire, capitalism, gender and sexuality, Europe, and the Caribbean and Latin America."
American Historical Review
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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
"Offshore Attachments is deeply original, bringing together a wide range of sources and analytical perspectives to unearth the critical role of the Caribbean in the development of the global energy system and the importance of women’s sexual and reproductive labor to the oil economy. This is a fantastic work of scholarship that will undoubtedly make an impact in multiple fields."⏤Nicole Bourbonnais, author of Birth Control in the Decolonizing Caribbean: Reproductive Politics and Practice on Four Islands, 1930–1970
"The very premise of the book—the linkage between oil and sex, the latter broadly conceived—is novel, innovative, engaging, and even transgressive at times, since Schields reads with and against the grain of existing studies. Her prose incorporates a diverse body of sources in a cohesive narrative structure that moves forward and backward in time and across space with both clarity and grace."—Jennifer L. Foray, author of Visions of Empire in the Nazi-Occupied Netherlands