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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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Adunbi, Omolade (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [2015]
Subjects:
Petroleum industry and trade > Political aspects > Nigeria > Niger River Delta.
Oil fields > Political aspects > Nigeria > Niger River Delta.
Petroleum industry and trade > Nigeria > Niger River Delta.
Oil fields > Economic aspects > Nigeria > Niger River Delta.
Insurgency > Nigeria > Niger River Delta.
Pétrole > Industrie et commerce > Aspect politique > Nigeria > Niger, Delta du.
Gisements pétrolifères > Aspect politique > Nigeria > Niger, Delta du.
Pétrole > Industrie et commerce > Nigeria > Niger, Delta du.
Gisements pétrolifères > Aspect économique > Nigeria > Niger, Delta du.
Révoltes > Nigeria > Niger, Delta du.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Real Estate > General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > General.
Insurgency
Oil fields > Economic aspects
Petroleum industry and trade
Petroleum industry and trade > Political aspects
Nigeria > Niger River Delta
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary: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.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xxii, 296 pages)
Awards:Amaury Talbot Prize for African Anthropology, 2015.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780253015785
0253015782

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