Arthur Mason
About
Sabbatical year 2022-2023: Visiting Senior Fellow, Department of Anthropology, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
Arthur Mason is a political anthropologist specialising in the study of adverse impacts of climate change for land and marine ecosystems, and local ways of life.
Dr. Mason is completing on 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.
His recent edited volume Arctic Abstractive Industry: Assembling the Valuable and Vulnerable North (Berghahn 2022) brings together diverse engagements with natural resource extraction and ecological vulnerability in the contemporary Arctic.
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
Publications
2022
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Mason, Arthur.
(2022)
Arctic Abstractive Industry: Assembling the Valuable and Vulnerable North.
Berghahn Books. 2022. ISBN 9781800734685.
Academic anthology/Conference proceedings
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Mason, Arthur.
(2022)
Arctic Late Industrialism: Extracting Value through Abstraction.
Arctic Abstractive Industry: Assembling the Valuable and Vulnerable North.
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
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Mason, Arthur.
(2022)
Deluxe energy: Newly commodified regimes of luxurious energy.
Energy Democracies for Sustainable Futures.
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
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Mason, Arthur.
(2022)
From Northern Lights to Fluorescent Lights.
Arctic Abstractive Industry: Assembling the Valuable and Vulnerable North.
Chapter
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Mason, Arthur.
(2022)
Representation Without Resemblance: Graphical Expression in Hydrocarbon Industry.
Arctic Abstractive Industry: Assembling the Valuable and Vulnerable North.
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
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.
volum 25.
Academic article
2018
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Mason, Arthur.
(2018)
Consulting Arctic Energy.
The Routledge Handbook of the Polar Regions.
Chapter
2016
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Mason, Arthur.
(2016)
Arctic Abstractive Industry: Assessing the Valuable and Vulnerable North.
Cultural Anthropology Hot Spots.
Popular scientific article
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Mason, Arthur.
(2016)
Arctic energy image: hydrocarbon aesthetics of progress and form.
Polar Geography.
Academic article
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Mason, Arthur.
(2016)
Events Collectives: The Social Life of a Promise-Disappointment Cycle.
Subterranean Estates: Life Worlds of Oil and Gas.
Chapter
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Mason, Arthur;
Watts, Michael;
Appel, Hannah.
(2016)
Oil Talk.
Subterranean Estates: Life Worlds of Oil and Gas.
Chapter
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Mason, Arthur;
Watts, Michael;
Appel, Hannah.
(2016)
Subterranean Estates: Life Worlds of Oil and Gas.
Cornell University Press (CUP). 2016. ISBN 978-0-8014-7986-1.
Academic anthology/Conference proceedings
2015
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Mason, Arthur.
(2015)
Growth Imperative: Intermediaries, Discourse Frameworks, and the Arctic.
Diplomacy on Ice: Energy and the Environment in the Arctic and Antarctic.
Chapter
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Mason, Arthur.
(2015)
Inside the Energy Salon: Installation and Illusions of Finality.
Journal of business anthropology.
Academic article
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Mason, Arthur.
(2015)
Naming an Endless Process of Indigenization.
Current Anthropology.
Book review
2013
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Mason, Arthur.
(2013)
Cartel Consciousness and Horizontal Integration in Energy Industry.
Cultures of Energy: Power, Practices, Technologies.
Chapter
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Mason, Arthur.
(2013)
Homo Energeticus: Maturity, Inheritance, Identity.
Environmental Research Letters.
Academic article
2012
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Mason, Arthur.
(2012)
Corporeality of Consultant Expertise in Arctic Natural Gas Development.
Journal of Northern Studies.
Academic article
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Mason, Arthur.
(2012)
Natural Gas Industry Restructuring as Ethnographic Present.
The Polar Journal.
Academic article
2011
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Mason, Arthur.
(2011)
Forms of Time in Alaska Natural Gas Development.
Polar Record.
Academic article
2010
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Mason, Arthur.
(2010)
Whither the Historicities of Alutiiq Heritage Work are Drifting.
Indigenous Cosmopolitans: Transnational and Transcultural Indigeneity in the Twenty-first Century.
Chapter
2008
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Mason, Arthur.
(2008)
Neglected Structures of Governance in US-Canadian Cross-Border Relations.
American Review of Canadian Studies.
Academic article
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Mason, Arthur.
(2008)
Of Enlightenment and Alaska Early Moderns.
Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power.
Academic article
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Mason, Arthur.
(2008)
Vanguard Alutiiq Heritage Practice and the Import of Expertise.
Études / Inuit / Studies.
Academic article
2007
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Mason, Arthur.
(2007)
Rise of Consultant Forecasting in Liberalized Natural Gas Markets.
Public culture.
Academic article
2006
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Mason, Arthur.
(2006)
Images of the Energy Future.
Environmental Research Letters.
Academic article
2005
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Mason, Arthur.
(2005)
Registering Discontinuity in Energy Market Analysis.
Knowledge, Technology and Policy.
Academic article
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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.
Academic article
2004
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Mason, Arthur.
(2004)
Arctic Natural Gas: Reserves and Production.
The Encyclopedia of the Arctic.
Chapter
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Mason, Arthur.
(2004)
Modernity and Decay of Alaska's Natural Gas Pipeline.
2004.
Doctoral dissertation
2002
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Mason, Arthur.
(2002)
The Rise of an Alaska Native Bourgeoisie.
Études / Inuit / Studies.
Academic article
1996
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Mason, Arthur.
(1996)
In a Strange Turn of Events: How Alutiiq Cultural Pride became a Commodity.
1996.
Master thesis
Journal publications
-
Mason, Arthur.
(2019)
Consulting virtue: from judgement to decision-making in the natural gas industry.
Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute.
volum 25.
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)
Inside the Energy Salon: Installation and Illusions of Finality.
Journal of business anthropology.
Academic article
-
Mason, Arthur.
(2015)
Naming an Endless Process of Indigenization.
Current Anthropology.
Book review
-
Mason, Arthur.
(2013)
Homo Energeticus: Maturity, Inheritance, Identity.
Environmental Research Letters.
Academic article
-
Mason, Arthur.
(2012)
Corporeality of Consultant Expertise in Arctic Natural Gas Development.
Journal of Northern Studies.
Academic article
-
Mason, Arthur.
(2012)
Natural Gas Industry Restructuring as Ethnographic Present.
The Polar Journal.
Academic article
-
Mason, Arthur.
(2011)
Forms of Time in Alaska Natural Gas Development.
Polar Record.
Academic article
-
Mason, Arthur.
(2008)
Neglected Structures of Governance in US-Canadian Cross-Border Relations.
American Review of Canadian Studies.
Academic article
-
Mason, Arthur.
(2008)
Of Enlightenment and Alaska Early Moderns.
Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power.
Academic article
-
Mason, Arthur.
(2008)
Vanguard Alutiiq Heritage Practice and the Import of Expertise.
Études / Inuit / 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)
Registering Discontinuity in Energy Market Analysis.
Knowledge, Technology and Policy.
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.
(2002)
The Rise of an Alaska Native Bourgeoisie.
Études / Inuit / Studies.
Academic article
Books
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Mason, Arthur.
(2022)
Arctic Abstractive Industry: Assembling the Valuable and Vulnerable North.
Berghahn Books. 2022. ISBN 9781800734685.
Academic anthology/Conference proceedings
-
Mason, Arthur;
Watts, Michael;
Appel, Hannah.
(2016)
Subterranean Estates: Life Worlds of Oil and Gas.
Cornell University Press (CUP). 2016. ISBN 978-0-8014-7986-1.
Academic anthology/Conference proceedings
Part of book/report
-
Mason, Arthur.
(2022)
Arctic Late Industrialism: Extracting Value through Abstraction.
Arctic Abstractive Industry: Assembling the Valuable and Vulnerable North.
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
-
Mason, Arthur.
(2022)
Deluxe energy: Newly commodified regimes of luxurious energy.
Energy Democracies for Sustainable Futures.
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
-
Mason, Arthur.
(2022)
From Northern Lights to Fluorescent Lights.
Arctic Abstractive Industry: Assembling the Valuable and Vulnerable North.
Chapter
-
Mason, Arthur.
(2022)
Representation Without Resemblance: Graphical Expression in Hydrocarbon Industry.
Arctic Abstractive Industry: Assembling the Valuable and Vulnerable North.
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
-
Mason, Arthur.
(2018)
Consulting Arctic Energy.
The Routledge Handbook of the Polar Regions.
Chapter
-
Mason, Arthur.
(2016)
Events Collectives: The Social Life of a Promise-Disappointment Cycle.
Subterranean Estates: Life Worlds of Oil and Gas.
Chapter
-
Mason, Arthur;
Watts, Michael;
Appel, Hannah.
(2016)
Oil Talk.
Subterranean Estates: Life Worlds of Oil and Gas.
Chapter
-
Mason, Arthur.
(2015)
Growth Imperative: Intermediaries, Discourse Frameworks, and the Arctic.
Diplomacy on Ice: Energy and the Environment in the Arctic and Antarctic.
Chapter
-
Mason, Arthur.
(2013)
Cartel Consciousness and Horizontal Integration in Energy Industry.
Cultures of Energy: Power, Practices, Technologies.
Chapter
-
Mason, Arthur.
(2010)
Whither the Historicities of Alutiiq Heritage Work are Drifting.
Indigenous Cosmopolitans: Transnational and Transcultural Indigeneity in the Twenty-first Century.
Chapter
-
Mason, Arthur.
(2004)
Arctic Natural Gas: Reserves and Production.
The Encyclopedia of the Arctic.
Chapter
Report
-
Mason, Arthur.
(2004)
Modernity and Decay of Alaska's Natural Gas Pipeline.
2004.
Doctoral dissertation
-
Mason, Arthur.
(1996)
In a Strange Turn of Events: How Alutiiq Cultural Pride became a Commodity.
1996.
Master thesis