Paper short abstract:

This paper explores how risk connected to oil production has been transferred from international oil companies and the Chadian state to local farmers in the oil producing zone.

Paper long abstract:

The material changes in infrastructures and the administration of land brought about by oil production have led to massive social transformations in the Southern Chadian oil zone. This paper explores how the factor of risk connected to oil extraction, inscribed into the large technical systems needed to produce oil, have been transferred from the international and the national level to the local level of small scale farmers.