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Annual Gillian White Lecture 2023

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Dates:13 March 2023
Times:17:00 - 19:00
What is it:Lecture
Organiser:School of Social Sciences
Who is it for:Adults, Alumni, General public
Speaker:Laleh Khalili
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Crude Knowledge: Decolonisation and Hydrocarbon Epistemes

Decolonisation in the 1950s, ‘60s and ‘70s included demands for sovereign control over and new ways of accounting for, pricing, taxing, distributing, and regulating the global South’s natural resources.

Oil was pivotal, and exemplary, in this regard. In 1957, 63.9% of the world’s oil was “owned” by US companies and 14.5% by BP or Shell. By the 1980s, “ownership” had largely passed on to the state-owned hydrocarbon companies, a process that historian Christopher Dietrich has called “the most concentrated nonviolent transfer of global wealth in human history.”

How did this massive political economic transformation shape knowledge production about hydrocarbons in the Arab and Anglophone worlds? And how did the content and form of writing and knowledge about oil and gas map global inequalities that persist even after the ostensible “control” of oil has passed on to the producer states?

Laleh Khalili is a professor of international politics at Queen Mary University of London and the author of Heroes and Martyrs of Palestine: The Politics of National Commemoration (Cambridge 2007); Time in the Shadows: Confinement in Counterinsurgencies (Stanford 2013); and Sinews of War and Trade: Shipping and Capitalism in the Arabian Peninsula (Verso 2020). She is currently working on a project on the entanglements of oil in every aspect of modern life.

The event will be followed by a drinks reception in the Classics Foyer, Samuel Alexander Building

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Laleh Khalili

Role: Professor of International Politics

Organisation: Queen Mary University of London

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