Oil’s magic: Contestation and materiality

Cultures of Energy: Power, Practices, Technologies

Volumn , Issue , 2016, Pages 267-283

  Weszkalnys, Gisa ^a  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

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