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Title:On the Road to the State's Perdition? Authority and Sovereignty in the Niger Delta, Nigeria
Author:Eberlein, RubenISNI
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]
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