Arthur Mason
Om
Expertise Details: Energy Politics and Policy; The Anthropocene; Event Ethnography; Cultures of Expertise; Arctic Late Industrialism
I hold positions as Visiting Fellow at London School of Economics; Research Affiliate at University of St Andrews; and Research Associate at University of Calgary.
My fall semester course on the Anthropocene examines historical developments that break with twentieth century’s preoccupation with modernity and development. During spring semesters, my course on Global Inequality traces historical continuities and the effects of neoliberal structural adjustment programs.
Books
Consulting Energy: From Judgment to Decision-Making (fall 2025)
Energy Capitol: The Waning of Regulatory Form
Arctic Abstractive Industry: Assembling the Valuable and Vulnerable North
Subterranean Estates: Life Worlds of Oil and Gas
Currently, I am completing a manuscript titled Energy Images: Hydrocarbon Aesthetics of Progress and Form (Routledge 2026) which explores energy visuals as aesthetic abstractions that mediate between ignorance and knowledge in complex ways, at times propagandizing but at other times capturing, assembling, and performing the complexity of the energy system form.
Recent blog posts
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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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)
Deluxe energy: Newly commodified regimes of luxurious energy.
Academic Press
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
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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
-
Mason, Arthur.
(2022)
Arctic Abstractive Industry: Assembling the Valuable and Vulnerable North.
Berghahn Books
Berghahn Books
Vitenskapelig antologi/Konferanseserie
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)
Events Collectives: The Social Life of a Promise-Disappointment Cycle.
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
-
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)
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
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Mason, Arthur.
(2015)
Growth Imperative: Intermediaries, Discourse Frameworks, and the Arctic.
Yale University Press
Faglig kapittel
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)
Of Enlightenment and Alaska Early Moderns.
Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power
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
2007
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Mason, Arthur.
(2007)
Rise of Consultant Forecasting in Liberalized Natural Gas Markets.
Public culture
Vitenskapelig artikkel
2006
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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
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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 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)
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.
(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)
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.
(2022)
Arctic Late Industrialism: Extracting Value through Abstraction.
Berghahn Books
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