Oil wealth and insurgency in Nigeria /

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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
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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