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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
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: environment, transnational networks, and resource extraction
  • Sweet crude : neoliberalism and the paradox of oil politics
  • The spatialization of human and environmental rights practices
  • Mythic oil : corporations, resistance, and the politics of claim-making
  • Contesting landscapes of wealth : oil platforms of possibilities and pipelines of conflict
  • The state's two bodies : creeks of violence and the city of sin
  • Oil wealth of violence : the social and spatial construction of militancy
  • Proclaiming amnesty, constructing peace : oil and the silencing of violence
  • Conclusion: beyond the struggle for oil resources.