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Seeing like an oil company’s CHM programme: Exxon and archaeology on the Chad Export Project
Abstract
James Ferguson’s 2005 article ‘Seeing Like an Oil Company’ powerfully described the development of resource-extraction enclaves in African states, and the complex landscape of globally integrated and excluded territories that such enclaves produce. In this article I discuss the experience of doing cultural heritage management within one such enclave: the patchwork of protected camps, rights-of-way and air-conditioned Land-Cruisers associated with the Chad Export Project and oil production in southwestern Chad, one of the poorest countries on Earth. I will particularly examine the relationships between such ‘CHM enclaves’ and the development of national archaeological capabilities in African countries.
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- Authors
- MacEachern, S.
- Affiliations
- Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Bowdoin College, USA,
- Venue
- Journal of Social Archaeology
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Published
- 2010-10
- Volume
- 10
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 347-366
- ISSN
- 1469-6053
- 1741-2951
- Cited by
- 34
- References
- 1
- Language
- en
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