Arthur Mason
About
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
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
Publications
2025
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Mason, Arthur.
(2025)
Movement and Meaning for Oil and Gas Data Vendors.
Allegra Lab: Anthropology for Radical Optimism
Short communication
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Mason, Arthur.
(2025)
Consulting Energy: From Judgment to Decision-Making.
Routledge
Routledge
Academic monograph
2024
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Mason, Arthur.
(2024)
Energy Capitol: The Waning of Regulatory Form.
Routledge
Routledge
Academic monograph
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
Feature article
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Mason, Arthur.
(2023)
Synnøve K. N. Bendixsen and Edvard Hviding: Anthropology in Norway: Directions, Locations, Relations.
Norsk antropologisk tidsskrift
Book review
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Mason, Arthur.
(2023)
Empathy for the Graph.
Edinburgh University Press
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
2022
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Mason, Arthur.
(2022)
Deluxe energy: Newly commodified regimes of luxurious energy.
Academic Press
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
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Mason, Arthur.
(2022)
Representation Without Resemblance: Graphical Expression in Hydrocarbon Industry.
Berghahn Books
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
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Mason, Arthur.
(2022)
From Northern Lights to Fluorescent Lights.
Berghahn Books
Chapter
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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
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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
Academic article
2018
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Mason, Arthur.
(2018)
Consulting Arctic Energy.
Routledge
Chapter
2016
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Mason, Arthur.
(2016)
Events Collectives: The Social Life of a Promise-Disappointment Cycle.
Cornell University Press (CUP)
Chapter
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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)
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
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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
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Mason, Arthur.
(2015)
Growth Imperative: Intermediaries, Discourse Frameworks, and the Arctic.
Yale University Press
Chapter
2013
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Mason, Arthur.
(2013)
Cartel Consciousness and Horizontal Integration in Energy Industry.
Left Coast Press Inc.
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)
Natural Gas Industry Restructuring as Ethnographic Present.
The Polar Journal
Academic article
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Mason, Arthur.
(2012)
Corporeality of Consultant Expertise in Arctic Natural Gas Development.
Journal of Northern Studies
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.
Peter Lang Publishing Group
Chapter
2008
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Mason, Arthur.
(2008)
Vanguard Alutiiq Heritage Practice and the Import of Expertise.
Études Inuit Studies (EIS)
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)
Neglected Structures of Governance in US-Canadian Cross-Border Relations.
American Review of Canadian 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)
The Condition of Market Formation on Alaska’s Natural Gas Frontier.
Focaal: Journal of Global and Historical Anthropology
Academic article
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Mason, Arthur.
(2005)
Registering Discontinuity in Energy Market Analysis.
Knowledge, Technology and Policy
Academic article
2004
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Mason, Arthur.
(2004)
Arctic Natural Gas: Reserves and Production.
Routledge
Chapter
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Mason, Arthur.
(2004)
Modernity and Decay of Alaska's Natural Gas Pipeline.
University of California Berkeley
Doctoral dissertation
2002
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Mason, Arthur.
(2002)
The Rise of an Alaska Native Bourgeoisie.
Études Inuit Studies (EIS)
Academic article
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
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