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Title: | Violence, Market Forces and Militarisation in the Niger Delta |
Author: | Ifeka, Caroline |
Year: | 2004 |
Periodical: | Review of African Political Economy |
Volume: | 31 |
Issue: | 99 |
Pages: | 144-150 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Nigeria |
Subjects: | violence rebellions petroleum Politics and Government Military, Defense and Arms Economics and Trade |
External link: | https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/0305624042000258450 |
Abstract: | In contemporary African petroeconomies, politicoeconomic discourses authorize the armed violence of nation-State/ethnic communities in local wars popularly identified with boundary/land/oil conflicts, as well as the inner violence of corporate/community relations inflected with the multinational oil corporations' struggle for market survival in the global economy. In Nigeria's Niger Delta, militant youth are pursuing by violent and peaceful means the political goal of 'resource control'. This paper suggests that a central common denominator is the inner violence of political and economic rivalry between and within communities, companies and government seeking overall dominance of highly unstable commercial networks. In the Niger Delta each organization (companies, communities and the central government) engaged in oil-related combat adopts distinctive discourses. The paper discusses these discourses as well as the US discourse justifying the use of US armed force to impose democracy that it is believed will bring peace beneficial to enhance US oil company profitability. Bibliogr., notes, ref. [ASC Leiden abstract] |