Author James Marriott has spent a decade studying this energy industry. Together with co-author Mika Minio-Paluello and fellow team member of Platform, an arts activism organisation based in London, The Oil Road: Journeys from the Caspian Sea to the City of London took three years to write.
At the event on 1 November at W&T, James shared stories seldom heard: from families in Azerbaijan dealing with the consequences of an oil tunnel below their home, the massive and highly coordinated military infrastructure which protects oil tankers in Somalia to the role of BP in inadvertently propping up military juntas. Thank you James for an insightful, informative and throughtful evening. If you want to learn more about how this commodity changes lives, the environment and economies across the globe, pick up a copy of The Oil Road. Or check out Platform London's website.
"If you want to know why oil matters, read this book.” - Time Out.
”An elegantly written travel book…will make you think the next time you fill the tank.” - Financial Times
“The Oil Road is an inspiring act of political cartography. It makes chastisingly visible the means by which we blithely consume ‘the geology of elsewhere.’” – Robert Macfarlane, author of The Wild Places and The Old Ways