Writing Wednesday: Bibliography

As readers of this blog know, I’ve been toiling through a pretty substantial rewrite and revision of a short book manuscript on oil, photography, and archaeology of the contemporary world anchored in our experience in the Bakken. 

The book is a mess, but hopefully, a good mess. Below is a slightly updated table of contents with links to parts of the book that I’ve posted. I’ll continue to fill in parts of this volume as I write and revise them!

0. Prelude

1. Introduction 1.1. Setting and Situation 1.2. Documenting the Materiality of Workforce Housing 1.3. Publishing the Bakken

2. Archaeology and the Contemporary Boom 2.1. Archaeology of work force house both in the US and World Archaeology. 2.2. Industrial archaeology and the archaeology of extractive industries 2.3. Archaeology of the contemporary world.

3. Oil, Modernity, and Mobility 3.1. Oil and Modernity3.2. Petromodernity, Mobility, and Viscosity3.3. Fixity in the age mobility: the suburb

4. Photography and Archaeology of the Contemporary World 4.1. Photography and Archaeology: permanence in the age of ephemerality4.2. Permanence and Fragments4.3. Narrative and fragments

5. Conclusion

6. Epilogue

7. Bibliography

Readers of my blog have asked me to post my bibliography to make it a bit easier to follow my citations. This seems like a reasonable request.

I’m not a good bibliographer and my workflow for producing a bibliography is rough. Typically, I extract my in-text citations by hand during my penultimate read through and then build my bibliography from a list of citations. This time, I used a somewhat different method. I asked Google Gemini to extract everything in parentheses from the text and then built my bibliography based on that list. I used Zotero in a bit more of a disciplined way to prepare my citations, although I continued to do a good bit by hand out of habit more than anything.

Here’s a link to my bibliography.