Energopolitical Russia: Corporation, State, and the Rise of Social and Cultural Projects

In the Perm Region of the Russian Urals, the oil company Lukoil-Perm has worked with regional state agencies to design and administer hundreds of grants for "social and cultural projects" and embarked on other development initiatives over the last 15 years. This article argues that the res...

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Published in:Anthropological quarterly 2014-04, Vol.87 (2), p.431-451
Main Author: Rogers, Douglas
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Analysis
Children & youth
Corporate culture
Corporate social responsibility
Corporations
Cultural anthropology
Cultural institutions
Economic competition
Educational programs
Energy
Energy industry
Energy policy
Enterprises
Government Agencies
Governors
Grants
Income taxes
Oil companies
Organizational Power
Petroleum
Petroleum industry
Politics
Post-Soviet studies
Postcommunist Societies
Russia
Russian culture
Russian Federation
Russian language
Service introduction
Social aspects
Social change
Social responsibility
Social Sciences
SPECIAL COLLECTION: Energopower and Biopower in Transition
State agencies
State Power
Teaching
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Summary:In the Perm Region of the Russian Urals, the oil company Lukoil-Perm has worked with regional state agencies to design and administer hundreds of grants for "social and cultural projects" and embarked on other development initiatives over the last 15 years. This article argues that the resulting field of state and corporate power is productively understood as an "energopolitical regime" and suggests ways in which this analytical perspective adds new dimensions to the study of post-Soviet transformations and to the social science of energy and politics more broadly.
ISSN:0003-5491
1534-1518
1534-1518
DOI:10.1353/anq.2014.0017