"To you, to us, to oil and gas" – The symbolic and socio-economic attachment of the workforce to oil, gas and its spaces of extraction in the Yamal-Nenets and Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Districts in Russia

This article examines ways in which workers and the people around them become enmeshed with oil and gas resources, the extractive industry and the social and geographical space of the Russian Far North: in particular, the Yamal-Nenets and the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Districts (YNAO and KMAO). It hig...

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Main Author: Gertrude Saxinger
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Geographical Society of Finland 2015-03-01
Series:Fennia: International Journal of Geography
Online Access:http://ojs.tsv.fi/index.php/fennia/article/view/45209/14635