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Oil wealth and insurgency in Nigeria /

Omolade Adunbi investigates the myths behind competing claims to oil wealth in Nigeria's Niger Delta. Looking at ownership of natural resources, oil extraction practices, government control over oil resources, and discourse about oil, Adunbi shows how symbolic claims have created an "oil c...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Adunbi, Omolade (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [2015]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:Omolade Adunbi investigates the myths behind competing claims to oil wealth in Nigeria's Niger Delta. Looking at ownership of natural resources, oil extraction practices, government control over oil resources, and discourse about oil, Adunbi shows how symbolic claims have created an "oil citizenship." He explores the ways NGOs, militant groups, and community organizers invoke an ancestral promise to defend land disputes, justify disruptive actions, or organize against oil corporations. Policies to control the abundant resources have increased contestations over wealth, transformed the relationship of people to their environment, and produced unique forms of power, governance, and belonging.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (xxii, 296 pages)
Premios:Amaury Talbot Prize for African Anthropology, 2015.
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780253015785
0253015782