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Arthur Mason

Arthur Mason

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

arthur.l.mason@ntnu.no
+4748388508 +1 5163602528 Bygg 7, 7454, Dragvoll
LSE Visiting Senior Fellow
About Publications

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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

 

 

Competencies

  • Aesthetics
  • Anthropocene
  • Cultures of Expertise
  • Energy and environmental policy
  • Social anthropology

Publications

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2022

  • Mason, Arthur. (2022) Arctic Abstractive Industry: Assembling the Valuable and Vulnerable North. Berghahn Books. 2022. ISBN 9781800734685.
    Academic anthology/Conference proceedings
  • 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

2019

  • 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

  • Mason, Arthur. (2018) Consulting Arctic Energy. The Routledge Handbook of the Polar Regions.
    Chapter

2016

  • 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. (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; 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

  • 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. (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

2013

  • Mason, Arthur. (2013) Cartel Consciousness and Horizontal Integration in Energy Industry. Cultures of Energy: Power, Practices, Technologies.
    Chapter
  • Mason, Arthur. (2013) Homo Energeticus: Maturity, Inheritance, Identity. Environmental Research Letters.
    Academic article

2012

  • 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

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. Indigenous Cosmopolitans: Transnational and Transcultural Indigeneity in the Twenty-first Century.
    Chapter

2008

  • 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

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) 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

2004

  • Mason, Arthur. (2004) Arctic Natural Gas: Reserves and Production. The Encyclopedia of the Arctic.
    Chapter
  • Mason, Arthur. (2004) Modernity and Decay of Alaska's Natural Gas Pipeline. 2004.
    Doctoral dissertation

2002

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

1996

  • 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

  • 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
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