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Arthur Mason

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Arthur Mason

Associate Professor
Department of Geography and Social Anthropology
Faculty of Social and Educational Sciences

arthur.l.mason@ntnu.no
+4748388508 +447309040154 Bygg 7, 7454, Dragvoll
StudioPolar LSE Visiting Senior Fellow
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About

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ResearcherID: I-3946-2014

 

My autumn course on the Anthropocene examines historical developments that break with twentieth century’s preoccupation with modernity and underdevelopment. During spring, my course on Global Inequality traces continuities and effects of neoliberal adjustment programs. Currently, I am completing a book titled Energy Images: Hydrocarbon Aesthetics of Progress and Form which draws on affective imagery to convey ideas on the formation of energy planning. I hold positions as Visiting Fellow at London School of Economics and Research Affiliate at University of St Andrews.

 

Latest book on Routledge

Consulting Energy: From Judgment to Decision-Making

  • Select images from Consulting Energy

 

 

Expertise Details: Anthropology of Surfaces; Neo-Aristocracy; Anthropocene; Event Ethnography; Energy Expertise; Arctic Late Industrialism

 

 

Published Books

Energy Images: Hydrocarbon Aesthetics of Progress and Form (2026)

Consulting Energy: From Judgment to Decision-Making

Energy Capitol: The Waning of Regulatory Form

Arctic Abstractive Industry: Assembling the Valuable and Vulnerable North

Subterranean Estates: Life Worlds of Oil and Gas

 

Recent blog posts

Allegra Lab

Beyond Hot Air 

Norway Anthropology Journal

Paparazzi Ethnography

StudioPolar

Competencies

  • Anthropocene
  • Arctic Late Industrialism
  • Cultivation of Surface Appearances
  • Energy Expertise
  • Event Ethnography
  • Neo-Aristocracy

Publications

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2025

  • Mason, Arthur. (2025) Movement and Meaning for Oil and Gas Data Vendors. Allegra Lab: Anthropology for Radical Optimism
    Short communication
  • Mason, Arthur. (2025) Consulting Energy: From Judgment to Decision-Making. Routledge Routledge
    Academic monograph

2024

  • Mason, Arthur. (2024) Energy Capitol: The Waning of Regulatory Form. Routledge Routledge
    Academic monograph

2023

  • 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
    Feature article
  • Mason, Arthur. (2023) Synnøve K. N. Bendixsen and Edvard Hviding: Anthropology in Norway: Directions, Locations, Relations. Norsk antropologisk tidsskrift
    Book review
  • Mason, Arthur. (2023) Empathy for the Graph. Edinburgh University Press
    Academic chapter/article/Conference paper

2022

  • Mason, Arthur. (2022) Deluxe energy: Newly commodified regimes of luxurious energy. Academic Press
    Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
  • Mason, Arthur. (2022) Representation Without Resemblance: Graphical Expression in Hydrocarbon Industry. Berghahn Books
    Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
  • Mason, Arthur. (2022) From Northern Lights to Fluorescent Lights. Berghahn Books
    Chapter
  • Mason, Arthur. (2022) Arctic Late Industrialism: Extracting Value through Abstraction. Berghahn Books
    Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
  • Mason, Arthur. (2022) Arctic Abstractive Industry: Assembling the Valuable and Vulnerable North. Berghahn Books Berghahn Books
    Academic anthology/Conference proceedings

2019

  • Mason, Arthur. (2019) Consulting virtue: from judgement to decision-making in the natural gas industry. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute
    Academic article

2018

  • Mason, Arthur. (2018) Consulting Arctic Energy. Routledge
    Chapter

2016

  • Mason, Arthur. (2016) Events Collectives: The Social Life of a Promise-Disappointment Cycle. Cornell University Press (CUP)
    Chapter
  • Mason, Arthur; Watts, Michael; Appel, Hannah. (2016) Subterranean Estates: Life Worlds of Oil and Gas. Cornell University Press (CUP) Cornell University Press (CUP)
    Academic anthology/Conference proceedings
  • Mason, Arthur. (2016) Arctic Abstractive Industry: Assessing the Valuable and Vulnerable North. Cultural Anthropology Hot Spots
    Popular scientific article
  • Mason, Arthur. (2016) Arctic energy image: hydrocarbon aesthetics of progress and form. Polar Geography
    Academic article
  • Mason, Arthur; Watts, Michael; Appel, Hannah. (2016) Oil Talk. Cornell University Press (CUP)
    Chapter

2015

  • Mason, Arthur. (2015) Naming an Endless Process of Indigenization. Current Anthropology
    Book review
  • Mason, Arthur. (2015) Inside the Energy Salon: Installation and Illusions of Finality. Journal of business anthropology
    Academic article
  • Mason, Arthur. (2015) Growth Imperative: Intermediaries, Discourse Frameworks, and the Arctic. Yale University Press
    Chapter

2013

  • Mason, Arthur. (2013) Cartel Consciousness and Horizontal Integration in Energy Industry. Left Coast Press Inc.
    Chapter
  • Mason, Arthur. (2013) Homo Energeticus: Maturity, Inheritance, Identity. Environmental Research Letters
    Academic article

2012

  • Mason, Arthur. (2012) Natural Gas Industry Restructuring as Ethnographic Present. The Polar Journal
    Academic article
  • Mason, Arthur. (2012) Corporeality of Consultant Expertise in Arctic Natural Gas Development. Journal of Northern Studies
    Academic article

2011

  • Mason, Arthur. (2011) Forms of Time in Alaska Natural Gas Development. Polar Record
    Academic article

2010

  • Mason, Arthur. (2010) Whither the Historicities of Alutiiq Heritage Work are Drifting. Peter Lang Publishing Group
    Chapter

2008

  • Mason, Arthur. (2008) Vanguard Alutiiq Heritage Practice and the Import of Expertise. Études Inuit Studies (EIS)
    Academic article
  • Mason, Arthur. (2008) Of Enlightenment and Alaska Early Moderns. Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power
    Academic article
  • Mason, Arthur. (2008) Neglected Structures of Governance in US-Canadian Cross-Border Relations. American Review of Canadian Studies
    Academic article

2007

  • Mason, Arthur. (2007) Rise of Consultant Forecasting in Liberalized Natural Gas Markets. Public culture
    Academic article

2006

  • Mason, Arthur. (2006) Images of the Energy Future. Environmental Research Letters
    Academic article

2005

  • Mason, Arthur. (2005) The Condition of Market Formation on Alaska’s Natural Gas Frontier. Focaal: Journal of Global and Historical Anthropology
    Academic article
  • Mason, Arthur. (2005) Registering Discontinuity in Energy Market Analysis. Knowledge, Technology and Policy
    Academic article

2004

  • Mason, Arthur. (2004) Arctic Natural Gas: Reserves and Production. Routledge
    Chapter
  • Mason, Arthur. (2004) Modernity and Decay of Alaska's Natural Gas Pipeline. University of California Berkeley
    Doctoral dissertation

2002

  • Mason, Arthur. (2002) The Rise of an Alaska Native Bourgeoisie. Études Inuit Studies (EIS)
    Academic article

1996

  • Mason, Arthur. (1996) In a Strange Turn of Events: How Alutiiq Cultural Pride became a Commodity. University of Alaska Fairbanks
    Masters thesis

Journal publications

  • Mason, Arthur. (2025) Movement and Meaning for Oil and Gas Data Vendors. Allegra Lab: Anthropology for Radical Optimism
    Short communication
  • 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
    Feature article
  • Mason, Arthur. (2023) Synnøve K. N. Bendixsen and Edvard Hviding: Anthropology in Norway: Directions, Locations, Relations. Norsk antropologisk tidsskrift
    Book review
  • Mason, Arthur. (2019) Consulting virtue: from judgement to decision-making in the natural gas industry. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute
    Academic article
  • Mason, Arthur. (2016) Arctic Abstractive Industry: Assessing the Valuable and Vulnerable North. Cultural Anthropology Hot Spots
    Popular scientific article
  • Mason, Arthur. (2016) Arctic energy image: hydrocarbon aesthetics of progress and form. Polar Geography
    Academic article
  • Mason, Arthur. (2015) Naming an Endless Process of Indigenization. Current Anthropology
    Book review
  • Mason, Arthur. (2015) Inside the Energy Salon: Installation and Illusions of Finality. Journal of business anthropology
    Academic article
  • Mason, Arthur. (2013) Homo Energeticus: Maturity, Inheritance, Identity. Environmental Research Letters
    Academic article
  • Mason, Arthur. (2012) Natural Gas Industry Restructuring as Ethnographic Present. The Polar Journal
    Academic article
  • Mason, Arthur. (2012) Corporeality of Consultant Expertise in Arctic Natural Gas Development. Journal of Northern Studies
    Academic article
  • Mason, Arthur. (2011) Forms of Time in Alaska Natural Gas Development. Polar Record
    Academic article
  • Mason, Arthur. (2008) Vanguard Alutiiq Heritage Practice and the Import of Expertise. Études Inuit Studies (EIS)
    Academic article
  • Mason, Arthur. (2008) Of Enlightenment and Alaska Early Moderns. Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power
    Academic article
  • Mason, Arthur. (2008) Neglected Structures of Governance in US-Canadian Cross-Border Relations. American Review of Canadian Studies
    Academic article
  • Mason, Arthur. (2007) Rise of Consultant Forecasting in Liberalized Natural Gas Markets. Public culture
    Academic article
  • Mason, Arthur. (2006) Images of the Energy Future. Environmental Research Letters
    Academic article
  • Mason, Arthur. (2005) The Condition of Market Formation on Alaska’s Natural Gas Frontier. Focaal: Journal of Global and Historical Anthropology
    Academic article
  • Mason, Arthur. (2005) Registering Discontinuity in Energy Market Analysis. Knowledge, Technology and Policy
    Academic article
  • Mason, Arthur. (2002) The Rise of an Alaska Native Bourgeoisie. Études Inuit Studies (EIS)
    Academic article

Books

  • Mason, Arthur. (2025) Consulting Energy: From Judgment to Decision-Making. Routledge Routledge
    Academic monograph
  • Mason, Arthur. (2024) Energy Capitol: The Waning of Regulatory Form. Routledge Routledge
    Academic monograph
  • Mason, Arthur. (2022) Arctic Abstractive Industry: Assembling the Valuable and Vulnerable North. Berghahn Books Berghahn Books
    Academic anthology/Conference proceedings
  • Mason, Arthur; Watts, Michael; Appel, Hannah. (2016) Subterranean Estates: Life Worlds of Oil and Gas. Cornell University Press (CUP) Cornell University Press (CUP)
    Academic anthology/Conference proceedings

Part of book/report

  • Mason, Arthur. (2023) Empathy for the Graph. Edinburgh University Press
    Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
  • Mason, Arthur. (2022) Deluxe energy: Newly commodified regimes of luxurious energy. Academic Press
    Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
  • Mason, Arthur. (2022) Representation Without Resemblance: Graphical Expression in Hydrocarbon Industry. Berghahn Books
    Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
  • Mason, Arthur. (2022) From Northern Lights to Fluorescent Lights. Berghahn Books
    Chapter
  • Mason, Arthur. (2022) Arctic Late Industrialism: Extracting Value through Abstraction. Berghahn Books
    Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
  • Mason, Arthur. (2018) Consulting Arctic Energy. Routledge
    Chapter
  • Mason, Arthur. (2016) Events Collectives: The Social Life of a Promise-Disappointment Cycle. Cornell University Press (CUP)
    Chapter
  • Mason, Arthur; Watts, Michael; Appel, Hannah. (2016) Oil Talk. Cornell University Press (CUP)
    Chapter
  • Mason, Arthur. (2015) Growth Imperative: Intermediaries, Discourse Frameworks, and the Arctic. Yale University Press
    Chapter
  • Mason, Arthur. (2013) Cartel Consciousness and Horizontal Integration in Energy Industry. Left Coast Press Inc.
    Chapter
  • Mason, Arthur. (2010) Whither the Historicities of Alutiiq Heritage Work are Drifting. Peter Lang Publishing Group
    Chapter
  • Mason, Arthur. (2004) Arctic Natural Gas: Reserves and Production. Routledge
    Chapter

Report

  • Mason, Arthur. (2004) Modernity and Decay of Alaska's Natural Gas Pipeline. University of California Berkeley
    Doctoral dissertation
  • Mason, Arthur. (1996) In a Strange Turn of Events: How Alutiiq Cultural Pride became a Commodity. University of Alaska Fairbanks
    Masters thesis

Teaching

Courses

  • SANT2027 - Globale ulikheter
  • SANT2032 - Environment, Cultural Politics & Justice

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