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Title: | On the Road to the State's Perdition? Authority and Sovereignty in the Niger Delta, Nigeria |
Author: | Eberlein, Ruben |
Year: | 2006 |
Periodical: | Journal of Modern African Studies |
Volume: | 44 |
Issue: | 4 |
Period: | December |
Pages: | 573-596 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Nigeria |
Subjects: | political economy power governance local politics oil companies State collapse History and Exploration Politics and Government |
External link: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/4486704 |
Abstract: | This article discusses the reorganization and fragmentation of political rule in the Niger Delta, Nigeria, from the end of the 1990s until today. It details empirical evidence on the resources provided by transnational interventions, especially those connected to the changing security strategies of oil companies as well as intensified corporate social deployments, and on the appropriation of these resources by local actors. The continued drive from neopatrimonial to predatory rule, it is argued, has taken a decided twist towards localization during recent years. Instead of constructing the crises in the Niger Delta as an example of 'State failure', the focus of this article is directed at the establishment of extra-State political formations, their legitimizing discourses and social practices. Bibliogr., notes, ref., sum. [Journal abstract] |