The Bakken goes boom : oil and the changing geographies of western North Dakota / edited by William Caraher and Kyle Conway.
Material type: TextPublisher: Grand Forks, North Dakota : Digital Press @ The University of North Dakota, [2016]Copyright date: ©2016Description: vii, 382 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780692643686
- 0692643680
- Petroleum industry and trade -- Economic aspects -- North Dakota
- Petroleum industry and trade -- Social aspects -- North Dakota
- Oil fields -- North Dakota
- Business cycles -- North Dakota
- Hydraulic fracturing -- Environmental aspects
- North Dakota -- Economic conditions
- North Dakota -- Social conditions
- Bakken Formation
Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Adult Book | Main Library | NonFiction | 363.7382 C258 | Available | 33111008800191 | ||||
Not for Loan | Main Library | North Dakota Collection | 363.7382 C258 | Not for loan | 33111008785525 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
In 2008, the Bakken went boom. Thanks to advances in hydraulic fracturing, oil production in western North Dakota exploded. As the price of oil went up, so did the oil rigs. People came from all over the country (and the world) in search of work, and cities and towns struggled to keep up. This book is about the challenges they faced. It is about the human dimensions of the boom, as told by artists, poets, journalists, and scholars. It captures the boom at its peak, before the price of oil fell and the boom went bust.This is the only book on the Bakken to bring together such a wide range of voices. It captures a fascinating moment in the history not only of North Dakota, but of global oil production. It sheds light on the impact of oil on local communities that, until now, had not attracted much interest from the outside world. And it shows how North Dakotans, both old and new, have found ways to address the challenges they face in a turbulent, changing environment.
Includes bibliographical references.
The changing geographies of western North Dakota / Kyle Conway and William Caraher -- Excerpts from Sweet/Crude: A Bakken boom cycle / Heidi Czerwiec -- The paradox of plenty: Blessings and curses in the oil patch / Karin L. Becker -- Notes from the global hinterlands: What it feels like to be global in North Dakota / Kyle Conway -- Unpackaging boomtown tropes: Insider/outsider dynamics in North Dakota's oil patch / Ann Reed -- Booms and busts: Haunting memories in the North Dakota oil boom / Joshua E. Young -- Revisited frontiers: The Bakken, the plains, potential futures, and real pasts / Sebastian Braun -- Public discourse on the rise and regulation of the illicit sex trade during North Dakota's economic booms / Nikki Berg Burin -- Nowhere to run: Impacts of the Bakken oil boom on domestic violence survivors and service providers / Laura Tally -- Oil booms and babies: Women's health professionals explain the challenges of western North Dakota's oil boom / Heather Jackson -- Doctors wanted: How the Bakken changed North Dakota health delivery / Jessica Sobolik -- The archaeology of man camps: Contingency, periphery, and late capitalism / William Caraher -- Extractive industries and temporary housing policies: Man camps in North Dakota's oil patch / Carenlee Barkdull, Bret A. Weber, and Julia C. Geigle -- 100 miles of wild: North Dakota Badlands transect / Richard Rothaus, Simon Donato, Andrew Reinhard, and Melissa Rae Stewart -- Covering a boomtown: How mediated communication has shaped life in the Bakken oil region / Angela Cary -- "Cowboy logic" lessons from Norway / Ryan M. Taylor -- Bakken boom: Artists respond to the North Dakota oil rush / Rebecca A. Dunham -- Man Camp #1, #2, #3, #5, #8, #9, #10, #12, #16, and #17 / John Holmgren -- Photographing the Bakken / Kyle Cassidy.
In 2008, the Bakken went boom. Thanks to advances in hydraulic fracturing, oil production in western North Dakota exploded. As the price of oil went up, so did the oil rigs. People came from all over the country (and the world) in search of work, and cities and towns struggled to keep up. This book is about the challenges they faced. It is about the human dimensions of the boom, as told by artists, poets, journalists, and scholars. It captures the boom at its peak, before the price of oil fell and the boom went bust. It sheds light on the impact of oil on local communities that, until now, had not attracted much interest from the outside world. And it shows how North Dakotans, both old and new, have found ways to address the challenges they face in a turbulent, changing environment.