Oil & Capital
What accounts for worker injuries and fatalities in the Bakken oil fields of North Dakota? Should they be viewed as localized phenomena, or are larger socioeconomic processes at work? In his effort to explain oil-boom representations and calamities, Bruce Braun considers and extends Lauren Berlant\u2019s analysis of worker precarity, \u201ccrisis ordinariness,\u201d and \u201cslow death.\u201d\nBraun and Thomas, eds., Settling the Boom: The Sites and Subjects of Bakken Oil University of Minnesota Press, 2023\nThe post Oil & Capital appeared first on KPFA.