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Title:'What happens to us after they suck out all the wealth from our lands?' Globalisation, environment and protest politics in Nigeria
Author:Obi, Cyril I.ISNI
Year:2009
Periodical:Politeia: Journal for Political Science and Public Administration
Volume:28
Issue:1
Pages:89-107
Language:English
Geographic term:Nigeria
Subjects:resistance
rebellions
petroleum
ethnicity
oil companies
globalization
political economy
Abstract:This article explores the linkages between globalized resource extraction and the politics of local protests in Africa. It looks at the various explanations for the struggles around resource extraction and distribution, as well as the ways conflict reflects the balance of power, as framed by the structures of environmental governance in Africa. Drawing on the specific case of Nigeria's oil-rich, but paradoxically impoverished Niger Delta region, it examines the politics of protest against the State-global oil capital alliance, particularly in contexts where resource extraction threatens local people. It raises questions about ownership, access and equity and underscores the desperation of people confronted by dire prospects in the face of resource extraction, alienation, poverty and environmental degradation. People faced with the prospect of their prized natural resources being depleted will resist continued exploitation, while seeking to gain access to the benefits flowing from the extraction of such resources. Ethnic minority agitation, framed within an alternative discourse of social and national democracy, has come to the fore in the struggle against international expropriation, oil exploitation, and pollution of the Niger Delta. The violence of resource extraction in the Niger Delta by the State-oil alliance has dialectically resulted in the violence of resistance, which has now assumed the level of insurgency. Bibliogr., sum. [Journal abstract, edited]
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