Crude Continent: The Struggle for Africa’s Oil Prize
Crude Continent: The Struggle for Africa’s Oil Prize
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原油大陆：争夺非洲石油奖的斗争
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10.1093/jwelb/jwp018
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2009
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A. Akinrele
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这本书是对非洲大陆经济和政治结构的引人入胜的分析，基于对非洲大陆30多年的经验和密切观察。对非洲历史的分析及其与其上游石油和天然气制度当前发展的并列，使本书成为经济历史学家和政治经济学家的研究对象。毫无疑问，它还将成为石油和天然气学者、从业人员和战略家寻求更深入了解非洲油气勘探和开发的哲学挑战的有用工具。这本书旨在提供一个非洲的梗概，侧重于非洲的众所周知的历史。作者评论了广泛的关于非洲的文学作品，从十六世纪的利奥·阿非利加到现代作家，如约翰·里德、盖伊·阿诺德、马丁·梅雷迪思和斯文·林奎斯特。作者挑战了传统的观点，即石油资源对非洲是一种祸害，而不是一种好处。他从非洲的历史以及覆盖100多个生态区的多样性和不同的经济结构中找到了非洲发展问题的解释。作者认为，由于各种干预--最初是伊斯兰教的影响，后来被欧洲在世纪通过奴隶制进行的干预所取代，从殖民主义时期一直到20世纪的冷战意识形态--衍生结构在非洲建立起来，这反过来又建立了一个由控制重要经济利益区的失败国家组成的拼贴画。克拉克解释说，非洲现在面临的挑战一方面来自于过去通过欧洲干预建立的政治经济模式，另一方面来自于资本主义前非洲农村根深蒂固的中世纪经济结构。其结果是一种混合经济，其矛盾的力量往往无法与石油工业共存。根据作者的说法，非洲的石油开发已经被嫁接到“整个大陆的生存主义经济体的拼贴画中，在它们内部增长，但主要是在边缘”。
This book is an engaging analysis of the economics and political structure of the African continent, based on experience and close observation of the continent over a 30-year period. The analysis of African history and its juxtaposition to current developments in its upstream oil and gas regimes puts this book within the purview of economic historians and political economists. Undoubtedly, it will also serve as a useful tool for oil and gas academics, practitioners and strategists seeking a deeper understanding of the philosophical challenges of hydrocarbon exploration and development in Africa. This book aims at providing a synopsis of Africa, focusing on the commonly known history of Africa. The author comments on a wide range of literature on Africa from a range of writers from Leo Africanus in the sixteenth century to modern-day writers such as John Reader, Guy Arnold, Martin Meredith and Sven Lindqvist. The author challenges conventional wisdom that oil resource is a blight to Africa rather than a benefit. He finds an explanation for Africa’s developmental problems in its history as well as in the diversity and disparate economic structures that cover over 100 ecological zones. The author suggests that by virtue of various interventions–the initial influence of Islam, supplanted by the European intervention through slavery in the nineteenth century, the period of colonialism up to the cold-war ideology of the twentieth century–derivative structures have been created in Africa, which in turn created a collage of failing nations that control vital zones of economic interest. Clarke explains that the challenges now faced by Africa arise from past patterns of political economy established through European intervention on the one hand, and medieval economic structures entrenched in pre-capitalist rural Africa, on the other. The result is a hybrid economy with contradictory forces that are often unable to co-exist with the oil industry. According to the author, oil development in Africa has been grafted into ‘a collage of continent wide survivalist economies, growing within them but mostly around the edges’.