THE OIL ROAD: JOURNEYS FROM THE CASPIAN SEA TO THE CITY OF LONDON

Book ID/图书代码： 13850010B36947

English Summary/英文概要： A journey along a controversial Central Asian pipeline becomes a profound exploration of the oil economy. Opening in 2006 after ten years in the making, British Petroleum’s $4 billion pipeline, running from the Caspian Sea to the Mediterranean, has become an icon of globalization. Over a thousand miles long, it weaves a route around the Russian and Iranian borders, transporting oil and gas to hungry Western markets. Bringing to bear a wealth of expertise on their subject, the authors look at the reality behind the pipeline’s gleaming façade. Traveling along its route, they trace the shadowy forces and institutions behind it, meeting whistle-blowers, security forces, local villagers and fishermen; in doing so, they expose a story of cracked coatings, new arms races and displaced local communities. They explore, too, the wider forces the pipeline represents, from state repression, investment banking and energy security, to environmental degradation and social movements. A compelling travelogue, The Oil Road explores the hidden history of an iconic project that is also a metaphor for our age.

Contents
PART I: THE WELLS
1. It Has to Be the Caspian
2. You Can See Where the President Gets His Iron Gloves
3. They Alone Can Light for Us the Way to the Promised Land
4. Lots of Empty Skyscrapers that We Can’t Keep Clean
PART II: THE ROAD
5. The Wide Stream of Oil Gushed Over the Greasy Earth
6. If the Pipeline Burns, I’ll Burn with It
7. Schrader’s Instruction Is Paper for the Toilet
8. Do You Have Any Books?
9. Without Having to Amend Local Laws, We Went Above or Around them by Using a Treaty
10. We Closed It Down to the Media
11. We Live in a Corridor of Violence
12. It Is Ash to the Eyes
13. I Will Break You, I’ll Smash Your Camera, Cow!
14. No-one Wants this Pipeline on their CV. It’s an Embarrassment
15. The Trench Sides Could Collapse On Top of Children
16. Don’t Sleep – Save Your Sea
PART III: THE SHIP
17. Military Forces Sanitise the Area Ahead of the Merchant Ships
PART IV: THE ROAD
18. They Have Lond Arms … Luke the Arms of an Octopus
19. The Caspian!
PART V: THE FACTORY
20. This Is the Auschwitz Generation, and there’s No Arguing with them
21. A Liquid Distilled from a Fossilised Ecosystem

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 一趟沿著中亞石油管線的旅程，挖掘出影響全球的石油業秘辛
世界500強中排名第四的英國石油公司(British Petroleum)，建造了經過裡海與地中海的石油天然氣管線，並成為全球化的象徵之一。油管全長超過1千英哩，沿著俄羅斯及伊朗國界蜿蜒，運送石油及天然氣到需求若渴的全球市場。
本書作者James Marriott和Mika Minio-Paluello沿著此油管路線旅行，揭開石油業閃閃發光的表象，直搗背後陰暗的秘密，挖掘政府、財團、能源議題、環境保護等種種糾葛。他們與保安部隊會面，聽取爆料線民的消息，與當地居民和漁夫等居住在油管所經之地的人們接觸。同時他們也發現石油業所影響的範圍遠比我們想像的還大，從政治干預、金融投資、能源安全、環境退化等都受到石油工業影響，也在全球各地引發多起社會運動。石油工業所帶來的種種便利以及引發的許多問題，值得人們深思。(Eva)

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About the Author/作者介绍： James Marriott是環境社會正義組織PLATFORM的創辦者之一。PLATFORM創立於1983年，關心環境正義與國際人權，其成員集合了環保人士、人權鬥士、藝術家、教育家及社運人士等不同領域的專家，針對其關心的議題做深入研究以及藝術表現，希望喚醒人們的自覺。James Marriott還身兼藝術家、作家、行動主義者等身份。
James Marriott is a part of the award-winning environmental social justice group PLATFORM (platformlondon.org). Artist, writer, activist and PLATFORM co-director, Marriott is the co-author of The Next Gulf: London, Washington and the Oil Conflict in Nigeria. He lives in London.

Mika Minio-Paluello也是PLATFORM的成員，目前著重於研究銀行、石油業以及氣候變遷的主題。目前居住於倫敦
Mika Minio-Paluello is a part of the award-winning environmental social justice group PLATFORM (platformlondon.org). Minio-Paluello is currently leading PLATFORM’s work on banks, oil and climate change. Minio-Paluello lives in London.

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