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Oil (produced in Nigeria, consumed worldwide).
Coffee table book (2008): photojournalist Ed Kashi visits the oilfields of the Niger Delta to document the consequences of 50 years of oil extraction on people and environment. His photographs are published in a book edited by geographer Michael Watts containing essays by prominent Nigerian journalists and human rights activists, and Watts himself. It looks and feels like a coffee table book: hardback, large glossy photos, and text. It’s a thing of beauty, but its subject matter is very far from ‘beautiful’. Click for more...curseoftheblackgold.html

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Car seat (assembled in the UK, sat on in the UK and beyond). Film (2006): in 1968, a group of women sewing car seat covers at a Ford factory in the UK go on strike for equal pay with male colleagues. The strike leads to the passing of equal pay legislation in the UK and overseas. In 2003, film producer Stephen Woolley hears the strikers‘ reunion on the radio and he’s fascinated. Can he turn their struggle into a mainstream movie that celebrates strike action? Click for more...madeindagenham.html
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Oil (produced in Ecuador, consumed worldwide). Documentary film (2009): 30,000 people living in Ecuador’s remote Amazon rainforest are taking oil producer Chevron to court in the US over the dumping of toxic waste that has (allegedly) ruined their environment, livelihoods and health. Filmmaker Joe Berlinger follows the case, as it grows ‘from a little known legal story into an international cause célèbre’. Chevron are not happy, but what can they do about it? Click for more...crude.html