Oil and Social Change in Niger and Chad: An Anthropological Cooperative ResearchProject on Technologies, Signification and Processes of Creative Adaption in Relation to African Oil Production

该项目旨在作为“石油与尼日尔和乍得社会变革的意义”项目（2011- 2013年和2013-2015年）的第二个后续行动。它具有相同的标题，目的是在经验和理论范围内完成、补充和进一步发展项目第一和第二阶段的工作和成果。由于项目第二阶段的实施延迟，DFG批准我们的项目延期至2017年12月，无需额外资金（kostenneutrale Laufzeitverlängerung）。因此，我们只为我们的德国和非洲员工申请有限数量的人员费用/奖学金。我们不申请额外的非人事费用，但打算使用第二阶段提供给我们的资金。项目组相信前两个项目申请的力量，我们在其中建议对新出现的非洲石油国家尼日尔和乍得的社会变革发展一个独特的人类学视角。我们在方法上仍然注重观察在乍得和乍得新的石油生产和炼油地点及其周围以及在石油州首府重新排序和重新间隔的做法。我们还保持并进一步完善我们的理论重点在政治和社会互动的叙述和意义，以及石油生产的物质和技术方面，因为它们转化为新的秩序和混乱。我们第三阶段的明确重点是通过举办内部评估研讨会、与其他子项目一起参加PP内部研讨会以及与我们的项目成员、外部专家和合作伙伴举行最后会议，将迄今为止的研究和数据联系在一起。虽然我们的理论重点在项目第二阶段略有从意义转向技术，但我们提出了另一个转变，即石油的叙述和技术如何引发重新谈判和空间感知的改变。这一转变将建立在我们迄今为止收集的知识基础上，包括我们新收集的有关安全措施、架构、金融政治、索赔和指责形式以及与新业务伙伴互动所产生的订单的材料。目标是为计划的方案伙伴关系至少提供两份稿件、三份多国出版物以及期刊文章和一份与项目有关的编辑卷/特刊。

The project is designed as a second follow-up to the project Significations of oil and social change in Niger and Chad (2011-13 and 2013-2015). It carries the same title and aims at completing, supplementing, and further developing in empirical and theoretical scope the work and results from the first and second project phase. Due to delays in carrying out the second project phase, the DFG has granted our project an extension without additional funds (kostenneutrale Laufzeitverlängerung) until December 2017. Because of that, we only apply for a limited number of months of personnel costs / scholarships for our German and African staff. We do not apply for additional non-personnel-costs, but intend to use the funds still available to us from the second phase. The project team is convinced of the strength of the two previous project applications, in which we proposed to develop a distinctly anthropological perspective on societal transformations in the newly emerged African oil states of Niger and Chad. We maintain our methodological focus on observing the practice of re-ordering and re-spacing in and around the new Chadian and Nigerien oil production and refining sites as well as in the oil states capitals. We also maintain and further refine our theoretical focus on narrations and significations in political and social interaction as well as on material and technological aspects of oil production as they translate into new orders and disorders. Our explicit focus for the third phase is to tie together the strands of research and the data produced so far by conducting internal evaluation workshops, participating in internal PP workshops with other subprojects and carrying out a final conference with our project members, external experts and cooperation partners. While our theoretical focus slightly shifted from significations to technologies in the second project phase, we propose another shift to the question of how narratives and technologies of oil trigger re-negotiations and alterations in the perception of space. This shift will build on the knowledge we have assembled so far and include our newly gathered material concerning orders created by security measures, architecture, financial politics, forms of claim-making and blaming as well as the interaction with new business partners. The goal is to produce at least two contributions to the planned PPs three cluster publications as well as journal articles and a project related edited volume/special issue.