Arthur Mason
Om
Arthur Mason is a political anthropologist specializing in Energy security and ecological vulnerability in the Global North; and Energy aesthetics and futurity. Dr. Mason has been conducting fieldwork for two decades with energy consultants, political leaders, lobbyists, and community representatives. His publications focus on the anthropologies of extractive industry, futurity, and expertise, linked to STS-related genealogies.
Dr. Mason is completing a book manuscript titled Energy Image: Hydrocarbon Aesthetics of Progress and Form which draws on affective imagery to convey ideas on the formation of energy planning. He has edited two volumes titled Arctic Abstractive Industry: Assembling the Valuable and Vulnerable North (Berghahn 2022) and Subterranean Estates: Life Worlds of Oil and Gas (Cornell 2016) which engage with natural resource extraction and vulnerability.
Dr. Mason's forthcoming book Energy Capitol: The Waning of Regulatory Form (Routledge 2024) explores the erosion of regulatory politics surrounding large-scale energy systems in the United States at the turn of the millennium. By illuminating key aspects of federal-state political decision-making processes on energy transportation infrastructure, Energy Capitol highlights the activities of regulatory intellectuals whose accumulated work reflects the conditions in which large-scale projects are determined.
StudioPolar: The Registry is part of ongoing exploration into secondary analysis of contrasting epistemic artefacts. Dr. Mason holds a Visiting Senior Fellow position in anthropology at London School of Economics.
Expertise Details
Energy Politics; The Anthropocene; Event Ethnography; Cultures of Expertise; Arctic Late Industrialism
Select awards:
2021 – 2023 Peder-Sather Center for Advanced Study, UC Berkeley
2020 – 2023 U.S. National Science Foundation, UC Berkeley
2019 – 2020 Peder-Sather Center for Advanced Study, NADO Trondheim
2017 – 2018 Peder-Sather Center for Advanced Study, NADO Berkeley
2017 – 2018 DAAD Programme, Freie Universität Berlin
2016 – 2017 Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship
2015 – 2018 Fulbright U.S. Scholar - Russia, St. Petersburg State University
2014 – 2018 U.S. National Science Foundation, Rice University
2013 – 2014 Ciriacy-Wantrup Fellow, UC Berkeley
2012 – 2013 Fulbright U.S. Scholar - Norway, University of Tromsø
2012 – 2013 Wenner-Gren Hunt Postdoctoral Fellow
2011 – 2013 U.S. National Science Foundation, UC Berkeley
2010 – 2011 U.S. National Science Foundation, Arizona State University
2010 – 2011 U.S. National Science Foundation, Arizona State University
2006 – 2007 Fulbright U.S. Scholar - Canada, University of Calgary
Kompetanseord
Publikasjoner
2023
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Carson, Siri Granum;
Jenssen, Munro, Bjoern;
Johnsen, Geir;
Mason, Arthur.
(2023)
En bærekraftig fremtid for Svalbard
– er utvinning av dyphavsmineraler
en del av svaret?.
Svalbardposten
Kronikk
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Mason, Arthur.
(2023)
Synnøve K. N. Bendixsen and Edvard Hviding: Anthropology in Norway: Directions, Locations, Relations.
Norsk Antropologisk Tidsskrift
Anmeldelse
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Mason, Arthur.
(2023)
Empathy for the Graph.
Edinburgh University Press
Vitenskapelig Kapittel/Artikkel/Konferanseartikkel
2022
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Mason, Arthur.
(2022)
From Northern Lights to Fluorescent Lights.
Berghahn Books
Faglig kapittel
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Mason, Arthur.
(2022)
Arctic Late Industrialism: Extracting Value through Abstraction.
Berghahn Books
Vitenskapelig Kapittel/Artikkel/Konferanseartikkel
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Mason, Arthur.
(2022)
Representation Without Resemblance: Graphical Expression in Hydrocarbon Industry.
Berghahn Books
Vitenskapelig Kapittel/Artikkel/Konferanseartikkel
-
Mason, Arthur.
(2022)
Arctic Abstractive Industry: Assembling the Valuable and Vulnerable North .
Berghahn Books
Berghahn Books
Vitenskapelig antologi/Konferanseserie
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Mason, Arthur.
(2022)
Deluxe energy: Newly commodified regimes of luxurious energy.
Academic Press
Vitenskapelig Kapittel/Artikkel/Konferanseartikkel
2019
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Mason, Arthur.
(2019)
Consulting virtue: from judgement to decision-making in the natural gas industry.
Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute
Vitenskapelig artikkel
2018
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Mason, Arthur.
(2018)
Consulting Arctic Energy.
Routledge
Faglig kapittel
2016
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Mason, Arthur.
(2016)
Arctic energy image: hydrocarbon aesthetics of progress and form.
Polar Geography
Vitenskapelig artikkel
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Mason, Arthur.
(2016)
Events Collectives: The Social Life of a Promise-Disappointment Cycle.
Cornell University Press (CUP)
Faglig kapittel
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Mason, Arthur.
(2016)
Arctic Abstractive Industry: Assessing the Valuable and Vulnerable North.
Cultural Anthropology Hot Spots
Populærvitenskapelig artikkel
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Mason, Arthur;
Watts, Michael;
Appel, Hannah.
(2016)
Oil Talk.
Cornell University Press (CUP)
Faglig kapittel
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Mason, Arthur;
Watts, Michael;
Appel, Hannah.
(2016)
Subterranean Estates: Life Worlds of Oil and Gas.
Cornell University Press (CUP)
Cornell University Press (CUP)
Vitenskapelig antologi/Konferanseserie
2015
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Mason, Arthur.
(2015)
Inside the Energy Salon: Installation and Illusions of Finality.
Journal of business anthropology
Vitenskapelig artikkel
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Mason, Arthur.
(2015)
Growth Imperative: Intermediaries, Discourse Frameworks, and the Arctic.
Yale University Press
Faglig kapittel
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Mason, Arthur.
(2015)
Naming an Endless Process of Indigenization.
Current Anthropology
Anmeldelse
2013
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Mason, Arthur.
(2013)
Cartel Consciousness and Horizontal Integration in Energy Industry.
Left Coast Press Inc.
Faglig kapittel
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Mason, Arthur.
(2013)
Homo Energeticus: Maturity, Inheritance, Identity.
Environmental Research Letters
Vitenskapelig artikkel
2012
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Mason, Arthur.
(2012)
Corporeality of Consultant Expertise in Arctic Natural Gas Development.
Journal of Northern Studies
Vitenskapelig artikkel
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Mason, Arthur.
(2012)
Natural Gas Industry Restructuring as Ethnographic Present.
The Polar Journal
Vitenskapelig artikkel
2011
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Mason, Arthur.
(2011)
Forms of Time in Alaska Natural Gas Development.
Polar Record
Vitenskapelig artikkel
2010
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Mason, Arthur.
(2010)
Whither the Historicities of Alutiiq Heritage Work are Drifting.
Peter Lang Publishing Group
Faglig kapittel
2008
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Mason, Arthur.
(2008)
Vanguard Alutiiq Heritage Practice and the Import of Expertise.
Études Inuit Studies (EIS)
Vitenskapelig artikkel
-
Mason, Arthur.
(2008)
Of Enlightenment and Alaska Early Moderns.
Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power
Vitenskapelig artikkel
-
Mason, Arthur.
(2008)
Neglected Structures of Governance in US-Canadian Cross-Border Relations.
American Review of Canadian Studies
Vitenskapelig artikkel
2007
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Mason, Arthur.
(2007)
Rise of Consultant Forecasting in Liberalized Natural Gas Markets.
Public culture
Vitenskapelig artikkel
2006
-
Mason, Arthur.
(2006)
Images of the Energy Future.
Environmental Research Letters
Vitenskapelig artikkel
2005
-
Mason, Arthur.
(2005)
The Condition of Market Formation on Alaska’s Natural Gas Frontier.
Focaal: Journal of Global and Historical Anthropology
Vitenskapelig artikkel
-
Mason, Arthur.
(2005)
Registering Discontinuity in Energy Market Analysis.
Knowledge, Technology and Policy
Vitenskapelig artikkel
2004
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Mason, Arthur.
(2004)
Arctic Natural Gas: Reserves and Production.
Routledge
Faglig kapittel
-
Mason, Arthur.
(2004)
Modernity and Decay of Alaska's Natural Gas Pipeline.
University of California Berkeley
Doktorgradsavhandling
2002
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Mason, Arthur.
(2002)
The Rise of an Alaska Native Bourgeoisie.
Études Inuit Studies (EIS)
Vitenskapelig artikkel
1996
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Mason, Arthur.
(1996)
In a Strange Turn of Events: How Alutiiq Cultural Pride became a Commodity.
University of Alaska Fairbanks
Mastergradsoppgave
Tidsskriftspublikasjoner
-
Carson, Siri Granum;
Jenssen, Munro, Bjoern;
Johnsen, Geir;
Mason, Arthur.
(2023)
En bærekraftig fremtid for Svalbard
– er utvinning av dyphavsmineraler
en del av svaret?.
Svalbardposten
Kronikk
-
Mason, Arthur.
(2023)
Synnøve K. N. Bendixsen and Edvard Hviding: Anthropology in Norway: Directions, Locations, Relations.
Norsk Antropologisk Tidsskrift
Anmeldelse
-
Mason, Arthur.
(2019)
Consulting virtue: from judgement to decision-making in the natural gas industry.
Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute
Vitenskapelig artikkel
-
Mason, Arthur.
(2016)
Arctic energy image: hydrocarbon aesthetics of progress and form.
Polar Geography
Vitenskapelig artikkel
-
Mason, Arthur.
(2016)
Arctic Abstractive Industry: Assessing the Valuable and Vulnerable North.
Cultural Anthropology Hot Spots
Populærvitenskapelig artikkel
-
Mason, Arthur.
(2015)
Inside the Energy Salon: Installation and Illusions of Finality.
Journal of business anthropology
Vitenskapelig artikkel
-
Mason, Arthur.
(2015)
Naming an Endless Process of Indigenization.
Current Anthropology
Anmeldelse
-
Mason, Arthur.
(2013)
Homo Energeticus: Maturity, Inheritance, Identity.
Environmental Research Letters
Vitenskapelig artikkel
-
Mason, Arthur.
(2012)
Corporeality of Consultant Expertise in Arctic Natural Gas Development.
Journal of Northern Studies
Vitenskapelig artikkel
-
Mason, Arthur.
(2012)
Natural Gas Industry Restructuring as Ethnographic Present.
The Polar Journal
Vitenskapelig artikkel
-
Mason, Arthur.
(2011)
Forms of Time in Alaska Natural Gas Development.
Polar Record
Vitenskapelig artikkel
-
Mason, Arthur.
(2008)
Vanguard Alutiiq Heritage Practice and the Import of Expertise.
Études Inuit Studies (EIS)
Vitenskapelig artikkel
-
Mason, Arthur.
(2008)
Of Enlightenment and Alaska Early Moderns.
Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power
Vitenskapelig artikkel
-
Mason, Arthur.
(2008)
Neglected Structures of Governance in US-Canadian Cross-Border Relations.
American Review of Canadian Studies
Vitenskapelig artikkel
-
Mason, Arthur.
(2007)
Rise of Consultant Forecasting in Liberalized Natural Gas Markets.
Public culture
Vitenskapelig artikkel
-
Mason, Arthur.
(2006)
Images of the Energy Future.
Environmental Research Letters
Vitenskapelig artikkel
-
Mason, Arthur.
(2005)
The Condition of Market Formation on Alaska’s Natural Gas Frontier.
Focaal: Journal of Global and Historical Anthropology
Vitenskapelig artikkel
-
Mason, Arthur.
(2005)
Registering Discontinuity in Energy Market Analysis.
Knowledge, Technology and Policy
Vitenskapelig artikkel
-
Mason, Arthur.
(2002)
The Rise of an Alaska Native Bourgeoisie.
Études Inuit Studies (EIS)
Vitenskapelig artikkel
Bøker
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Mason, Arthur.
(2022)
Arctic Abstractive Industry: Assembling the Valuable and Vulnerable North .
Berghahn Books
Berghahn Books
Vitenskapelig antologi/Konferanseserie
-
Mason, Arthur;
Watts, Michael;
Appel, Hannah.
(2016)
Subterranean Estates: Life Worlds of Oil and Gas.
Cornell University Press (CUP)
Cornell University Press (CUP)
Vitenskapelig antologi/Konferanseserie
Del av bok/rapport
-
Mason, Arthur.
(2023)
Empathy for the Graph.
Edinburgh University Press
Vitenskapelig Kapittel/Artikkel/Konferanseartikkel
-
Mason, Arthur.
(2022)
From Northern Lights to Fluorescent Lights.
Berghahn Books
Faglig kapittel
-
Mason, Arthur.
(2022)
Arctic Late Industrialism: Extracting Value through Abstraction.
Berghahn Books
Vitenskapelig Kapittel/Artikkel/Konferanseartikkel
-
Mason, Arthur.
(2022)
Representation Without Resemblance: Graphical Expression in Hydrocarbon Industry.
Berghahn Books
Vitenskapelig Kapittel/Artikkel/Konferanseartikkel
-
Mason, Arthur.
(2022)
Deluxe energy: Newly commodified regimes of luxurious energy.
Academic Press
Vitenskapelig Kapittel/Artikkel/Konferanseartikkel
-
Mason, Arthur.
(2018)
Consulting Arctic Energy.
Routledge
Faglig kapittel
-
Mason, Arthur.
(2016)
Events Collectives: The Social Life of a Promise-Disappointment Cycle.
Cornell University Press (CUP)
Faglig kapittel
-
Mason, Arthur;
Watts, Michael;
Appel, Hannah.
(2016)
Oil Talk.
Cornell University Press (CUP)
Faglig kapittel
-
Mason, Arthur.
(2015)
Growth Imperative: Intermediaries, Discourse Frameworks, and the Arctic.
Yale University Press
Faglig kapittel
-
Mason, Arthur.
(2013)
Cartel Consciousness and Horizontal Integration in Energy Industry.
Left Coast Press Inc.
Faglig kapittel
-
Mason, Arthur.
(2010)
Whither the Historicities of Alutiiq Heritage Work are Drifting.
Peter Lang Publishing Group
Faglig kapittel
-
Mason, Arthur.
(2004)
Arctic Natural Gas: Reserves and Production.
Routledge
Faglig kapittel
Rapport
-
Mason, Arthur.
(2004)
Modernity and Decay of Alaska's Natural Gas Pipeline.
University of California Berkeley
Doktorgradsavhandling
-
Mason, Arthur.
(1996)
In a Strange Turn of Events: How Alutiiq Cultural Pride became a Commodity.
University of Alaska Fairbanks
Mastergradsoppgave
Undervisning
Emner
Formidling
2022
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Vitenskapelig foredragMason, Arthur. (2022) Ethical Performance and Ethical Aesthetics as Cultural Practice. SINTEF Oceans Invited Seminar Lecture , Trondheim 2022-05-25 -
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Vitenskapelig foredragMason, Arthur. (2022) Arctic Late Industrialism: Governance of Exxon Valdez Oil Spill Restoration. China-Norway Marine University consortium China-Norway Marine University Consortium Alliance Annual Academic Conference 2022-11-14 - 2022-11-15
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Populærvitenskapelig foredragMason, Arthur. (2022) The Changing Arctic at NTNU Ocean Week. NTNU Oceans NTNU Ocean Week 2022 2022-05-03 - 2022-05-03
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Vitenskapelig foredragMason, Arthur. (2022) Charting the Translocal Arctic. Arctic Frontiers AS Arctic Frontiers 2022-05-08 - 2022-08-11
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Populærvitenskapelig foredragMason, Arthur. (2022) Transitions - Engaging Knowledge, Interest, and Critique. NTNU Oceans Transitions - Engaging Knowledge, Interest, and Critique Evening Workshop at NTNU Ocean Week 2022-05-02 - 2022-05-02
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Populærvitenskapelig foredragMason, Arthur. (2022) Visualizing the Anthropocene. Department of Anthropology Presentation to Anthropology and the Anthropocene undergraduate and MA course, Department of Anthropology, London School of Economics, London, United Kingdom , London School of Economics 2022-10-18 - 2022-10-18
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Populærvitenskapelig foredragMason, Arthur. (2022) Notes to an Aestheticized Economy of Asset Description. Trondheim Academy of Art Expert in Teams , Trondheim 2022-01-14 - 2022-01-14
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Faglig foredragMason, Arthur. (2022) Ethics and Aesthetics of Energy Development. Green/Black Research Council Norway Green/Black Research Council Norway Project kick-off 2022-04-22 - 2022-04-22
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Faglig foredragMason, Arthur. (2022) Energy Image: Hydrocarbon Aesthetics of Progress and Form. Department of Anthropology, London School of Economics Book proposal presentation , London School of Economics 2022-11-16 - 2022-11-16