Testimonios del oro negro: petróleo y memoria en el cine documental de la Venezuela del siglo XX

Selgas, Gianfranco

doi:10.3828/bhs.2020.57

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“…For most of its history, crude oil has been used by investors as a defensive wild card against market fluctuations, but for a few years now, oil is no longer a physical asset, it is one more financial asset in the investment banking speculative portfolios (Selgas, 2020). At present, the oil sector is the thriving sector of the economy, therefore, every day they are more interested in being competitive, encouraging companies that provide goods and services to migrate towards representations and services that provide added value, representing a space of interest for the development of profitable projects following global market trends .…”

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Occupational health in the Colombian oil sector: an approach from the context of the working class

Ortega,

Rivadeneira,

Ruiz

et al. 2023

Uniting Knowledge Integrated Scientific Research for Global Development

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Occupational health is the integral well-being of the person within their work environment. Occupational diseases are a costly phenomenon that causes a great impact not only in the company but also in the family and social environment. A review was made of the most recent research on the importance of Occupational Health in the Colombian Oil Sector: An Approach from the Context of the Working Class. The main objective of this review article is to qualitatively analyze the scientific literature (available in the databases, Scielo, Redalyc and official Web pages, using as search words: working class, oil industry, occupational health, industrial safety. Pertinent information related to the proposed objective was obtained, which is presented in 3 sections: The Oil Sector in Colombia, The Working Class: Occupational Health Context Workers' Health: Union Movement in The Oil Sector. In order to guarantee adequate control of diseases to which workers may be exposed. It is necessary to know the environmental conditions, physical, chemical, and biological contaminants, as well as ergonomic, psychosocial, and medical conditions, among others, of each worker in general and in particular. These same conditions are partly those that determine the life and health of the workers, that among other variables there is very little information for the workers of such conditions and above all the perception that the workers should have of their health derived from their environment labor.

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Occupational health in the Colombian oil sector: an approach from the context of the working class

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Ruiz

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“…En ese sentido, y con base en lo expuesto aquí, el arte ecológico-político puede pensarse como una forma de archivo cultural -esto es, los archivos de la mina planetariaque registra la imbricación socioecológica y espacial activada por las múltiples dimensiones de la minería y otras prácticas extractivas. Como señalo en otro lugar (Selgas, 2020(Selgas, : 1018(Selgas, -1019, la potencialidad simbólica y material de los minerales, en tanto que la historia de la región está completamente enredada con dichas materialidades, le sirve a la artista como herramienta para explorar pasado, presente y futuro. Ello invita a pensar con mayor atención la articulación entre el imaginario simbólico y la materialidad de los procesos extractivos en Latinoamérica, el Sur Global y el resto del mundo, atendiendo a los desplazamientos y deslizamientos epistemológicos, históricos, políticos, culturales y geológicos que activa el arte como forma de ecología política.…”

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2022

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This essay departs from the artistic work on Chile’s and Venezuela’s mineral extractive zones by Ana Alenso to reflect on how art symbolically and materially deals with geological, political, and cultural entanglements. By combining geology of media studies and Latin American political ecology, it studies how Alenso’s artworks allow us to discuss and highlight the ways in which art empowers socio-ecological claims and actions that configure other forms of resilience in the face of extractive capitalism. It also discusses how culture is intrinsically related to the history of the Earth, geological and mineral formations, and energy. The essay concludes by conceptualizing these artworks as archives of the planetary mine. This notion understands artistic praxis as a cultural archive recording the socio-ecological imbrications activated by the multiple dimensions of mining in Latin America.

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Magic and Haunting: Oil Media at Venezuela’s Lake Maracaibo

Zazzarino¹

2022

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Energy humanities emanating from the Global North often presents questions of oil disinvestment through a linear narrative of enchantment and disenchantment. According to this narrative, modern humankind has enjoyed the benefits of oil without much question, and it is only after the effects of climate change are felt that one arrives at a moment of disenchantment from oil’s allure. This article seeks to complicate this narrative by focusing on mediations of Venezuela’s oil extraction epicenter: Lake Maracaibo. Through textual and visual analysis of Standard Oil’s El Farol (1935–75) and the independent documentary film Pozo Muerto (1968), the article suggests that the persistent language of magic, bedazzlement, and enchantment is not the only register available to understand complex landscapes in regions where oil development is perceived as a cyclical, disruptive process rather than as a finished one. Inspired by María Pilar Blanco’s notion of ghost-watching (2012) and paying attention to local visual practices, I suggest that a language of haunting is better suited to explain the lived experience of petroculture from the perspective of extraction enclaves such as Lake Maracaibo. Unlike the register of magic, which presents oil as a transformative agent that converts the subsoil into wealth at great speed, a register of haunting effectively registers the histories of dispossession, interruption, and uncertainty that permeate the experience of petroculture in Venezuela. Ultimately, I argue for a perspective that examines the labor of constructing oil as a miraculous mediator while acknowledging alternative registers to understand petrocultures.

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Testimonios del oro negro: petróleo y memoria en el cine documental de la Venezuela del siglo XX

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Occupational health in the Colombian oil sector: an approach from the context of the working class

Occupational health in the Colombian oil sector: an approach from the context of the working class

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Magic and Haunting: Oil Media at Venezuela’s Lake Maracaibo

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