Abstracts
Résumé
Dans cet article, nous proposons de tracer les contours d’une économie morale des ressources pétrolières. Pour ce faire, nous nous appuyons sur une étude de terrain menée auprès de salariés et de cadres d’une firme transnationale impliquée dans l’extraction de pétrole offshore. Nous démontrons que les émotions, les valeurs et les normes que ceux-ci articulent continuellement dans leurs activités de travail prennent consistance à même les tensions et les contradictions du complexe extractif offshore, dont le déploiement matériel est contraint par les caractéristiques spécifiques des ressources pétrolières (enfouissement dans le sous-sol, localisation en haute mer). Nous émettons enfin l’hypothèse que pour être dûment problématisées, ces économies morales particulières doivent être mises en regard de l’économie morale ordinaire de la ressource pétrolière qui s’élabore à l’échelle de la société industrielle dans son ensemble, et dont la légitimité se trouve toujours plus contestée.
Mots-clés :
- économie morale,
- matérialité,
- pétrole,
- offshore,
- entreprises transnationales
Abstract
In this article, I seek to trace the contours of a moral economy of oil resources. To do so, I mobilize the results of a field study conducted among employees and managers of a transnational firm involved in offshore oil extraction. I demonstrate that the emotions, values and norms that they continually articulate in their work activities within the company bear in them the tensions and contradictions of the extractive complex, which material deployment is constrained by the specific features of oil resources (burial in the subsoil, location in the open sea). At last, I insist on the fact that, in order to be properly problematized, these particular moral economies must be set against the "ordinary" moral economy of the oil resource that is elaborated on the scale of industrial society as a whole – and which legitimacy is increasingly contested.
Keywords:
- moral economy,
- materiality,
- oil,
- offshore,
- transnational Firms
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