Criminal resistance? : the politics of kidnapping of oil workers /

By focussing on kidnappings that are putatively connected to the struggle for emancipating the Niger Delta, Oriola makes the case for analysing the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger (MEND) as a social movement organization, rather than a terrorist or criminal gang by showing how political p...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Oriola, Temitope B.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Farnham, Surrey : Ashgate Publishing Limited, [2013]
Colección:Interdisciplinary research series in ethnic, gender, and class relations.
Temas:
Since 1960
Kidnapping > Political aspects > Nigeria.
Petroleum industry and trade > Political aspects > Nigeria.
Political violence > Nigeria.
Pétrole > Industrie et commerce > Aspect politique > Nigeria.
Violence politique > Nigeria.
TRUE CRIME > General.
Petroleum industry and trade > Political aspects.
Political violence.
Politics and government.
Nigeria > Politics and government > 1960-
Nigeria > Politique et gouvernement > 1960-
Nigeria.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover; Contents; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1 "Dénouement" as Introduction; 2 Kidnapping as "Public Good": The Actors, Social Benefits and Harms of Nigeria's Oil Insurgency; 3 Criminal Resistance? Interrogating Political Kidnapping; 4 Car Bombing "with due respect": The Idea called MEND; 5 Framing the MEND Insurgency; 6 Master Frames in the MEND Insurgency; 7 A Repertoire of Protest or Criminal Expropriation?; 8 Summary and Conclusions; References; Index.

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