This book explores research that contributes to the current literature
on the Oil and Gas Sector by analysing the multiple discourses that
experts use to examine social investment. This book explains how these
discourses influence social investment practices and host communities in
the O&G sector.
This book serves as a starting point from which companies, social
investment experts, communities, host country governments, and
international banks can build more participatory and community-centred
social investment programmes to promote positive futures.
The book suggests an alternative approach to O&G social investment,
where social investment represents one of the main tools of social
engagement, rather than its substitute; and where care instead of
profit, becomes the driver of O&G social investment.