Arthur Mason
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Arthur Mason is a political anthropologist specializing in energy security, ecological vulnerability, and aesthetics and futurity. His publications focus on extractive industry, futurity, and expertise.
Dr. Mason is completing a book manuscript titled Energy Image: Aesthetic Abstractions of Progress and Form which draws on affective imagery in 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).
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 at the turn of the millennium. By illuminating key aspects of political decision-making processes on energy transportation infrastructure, Energy Capitol highlights the activities of regulatory intellectuals involved in large technical systems planning.
StudioPolar: The Registry explores 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 and policy; 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, UC Berkeley
2011 – 2013 U.S. National Science Foundation, UC Berkeley
2010 – 2011 U.S. National Science Foundation, Arizona State University
2006 – 2007 Fulbright U.S. Scholar - Canada, University of Calgary
Kompetanseord
Publikasjoner
2024
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Mason, Arthur.
(2024)
Energy Capitol: The Waning of Regulatory Form.
Routledge
Routledge
Vitenskapelig monografi
2023
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Mason, Arthur.
(2023)
Empathy for the Graph.
Edinburgh University Press
Vitenskapelig Kapittel/Artikkel/Konferanseartikkel
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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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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
2022
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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
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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
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Mason, Arthur.
(2022)
From Northern Lights to Fluorescent Lights.
Berghahn Books
Faglig kapittel
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;
Watts, Michael;
Appel, Hannah.
(2016)
Subterranean Estates: Life Worlds of Oil and Gas.
Cornell University Press (CUP)
Cornell University Press (CUP)
Vitenskapelig antologi/Konferanseserie
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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
-
Mason, Arthur.
(2016)
Arctic energy image: hydrocarbon aesthetics of progress and form.
Polar Geography
Vitenskapelig artikkel
-
Mason, Arthur;
Watts, Michael;
Appel, Hannah.
(2016)
Oil Talk.
Cornell University Press (CUP)
Faglig kapittel
2015
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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
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Mason, Arthur.
(2015)
Inside the Energy Salon: Installation and Illusions of Finality.
Journal of business anthropology
Vitenskapelig artikkel
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)
Natural Gas Industry Restructuring as Ethnographic Present.
The Polar Journal
Vitenskapelig artikkel
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Mason, Arthur.
(2012)
Corporeality of Consultant Expertise in Arctic Natural Gas Development.
Journal of Northern Studies
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
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Mason, Arthur.
(2008)
Neglected Structures of Governance in US-Canadian Cross-Border Relations.
American Review of Canadian Studies
Vitenskapelig artikkel
-
Mason, Arthur.
(2008)
Of Enlightenment and Alaska Early Moderns.
Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power
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
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Mason, Arthur.
(2005)
The Condition of Market Formation on Alaska’s Natural Gas Frontier.
Focaal: Journal of Global and Historical Anthropology
Vitenskapelig artikkel
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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
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Mason, Arthur.
(2023)
Synnøve K. N. Bendixsen and Edvard Hviding: Anthropology in Norway: Directions, Locations, Relations.
Norsk Antropologisk Tidsskrift
Anmeldelse
-
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.
(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 Abstractive Industry: Assessing the Valuable and Vulnerable North.
Cultural Anthropology Hot Spots
Populærvitenskapelig artikkel
-
Mason, Arthur.
(2016)
Arctic energy image: hydrocarbon aesthetics of progress and form.
Polar Geography
Vitenskapelig artikkel
-
Mason, Arthur.
(2015)
Naming an Endless Process of Indigenization.
Current Anthropology
Anmeldelse
-
Mason, Arthur.
(2015)
Inside the Energy Salon: Installation and Illusions of Finality.
Journal of business anthropology
Vitenskapelig artikkel
-
Mason, Arthur.
(2013)
Homo Energeticus: Maturity, Inheritance, Identity.
Environmental Research Letters
Vitenskapelig artikkel
-
Mason, Arthur.
(2012)
Natural Gas Industry Restructuring as Ethnographic Present.
The Polar Journal
Vitenskapelig artikkel
-
Mason, Arthur.
(2012)
Corporeality of Consultant Expertise in Arctic Natural Gas Development.
Journal of Northern Studies
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)
Neglected Structures of Governance in US-Canadian Cross-Border Relations.
American Review of Canadian Studies
Vitenskapelig artikkel
-
Mason, Arthur.
(2008)
Of Enlightenment and Alaska Early Moderns.
Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power
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
-
Mason, Arthur.
(2024)
Energy Capitol: The Waning of Regulatory Form.
Routledge
Routledge
Vitenskapelig monografi
-
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)
Deluxe energy: Newly commodified regimes of luxurious energy.
Academic Press
Vitenskapelig Kapittel/Artikkel/Konferanseartikkel
-
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)
From Northern Lights to Fluorescent Lights.
Berghahn Books
Faglig kapittel
-
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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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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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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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
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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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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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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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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