Alumnus, Sociology
Thesis Title: Capitalist Penetration and Social Transformations in Bojonegoro Regency: The Case of ExxonMobil's Operation in Block Cepu's Oil&Gas Industry, Indonesia
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Hanneman Samuel, Ph.D
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About
This research aims to present the case of the Proyek Blok Cepu as illustration of how capitalism and globalization penetrate and arise social transformation in Bojonegoro regency. As this study shows, global interaction between ExxonMobil multinational corporation and local situations forms a spesific social, cultural, and economic practices and processes, as well as allows this capitalist corporation to operate. It is found that Proyek Blok Cepu has been an arena of battles, collaborations, negotiations, accomodations and even resistences between aspirations dan interests of multiscalar actors and agenda (global capital expansion, development, and entrepreneurial activities). This study employs Tsing’s “Friction” as a conceptual tool for empirical research to investigate a global processes.
Keyword: friction, collaboration, Proyek Blok Cepu, globalization, capitalism
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