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How do we measure and truly grasp the sweeping social and
environmental effects of an oil-based economy? Focusing on the
special economic zones resulting from China's trading partnership
with Nigeria, Enclaves of Exception offers a new approach to
exploring the relationship between oil and technologies of
extraction and their interrelatedness to local livelihoods and
environmental practices. In this groundbreaking work, Omolade
Adunbi argues that even though the exploitation of oil resources is
dominated by big corporations, it establishes opportunities for
many former Nigerian insurgents and their local communities to
contest the ownership of such resources in the oil-rich Niger Delta
and to extract oil themselves and sell it. Based on extensive
ethnographic fieldwork, Enclaves of Exception makes clear that,
although both the free trade zones and the now booming local
artisanal refineries share the goals of profit-making and are
enthusiastically supported by those benefiting from them
economically, they have yielded dramatically the same environmental
outcome for communities around them that included pollution with
precarious effects on the health of the populations in the regions,
and displacement of population from their livelihood practices.
How do we measure and truly grasp the sweeping social and
environmental effects of an oil-based economy? Focusing on the
special economic zones resulting from China's trading partnership
with Nigeria, Enclaves of Exception offers a new approach to
exploring the relationship between oil and technologies of
extraction and their interrelatedness to local livelihoods and
environmental practices. In this groundbreaking work, Omolade
Adunbi argues that even though the exploitation of oil resources is
dominated by big corporations, it establishes opportunities for
many former Nigerian insurgents and their local communities to
contest the ownership of such resources in the oil-rich Niger Delta
and to extract oil themselves and sell it. Based on extensive
ethnographic fieldwork, Enclaves of Exception makes clear that,
although both the free trade zones and the now booming local
artisanal refineries share the goals of profit-making and are
enthusiastically supported by those benefiting from them
economically, they have yielded dramatically the same environmental
outcome for communities around them that included pollution with
precarious effects on the health of the populations in the regions,
and displacement of population from their livelihood practices.
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 citizenship." He explores the
ways NGOs, militant groups, and community organizers invoke an
ancestral promise to defend land disputes, justify disruptive
actions, or organize against oil corporations. Policies to control
the abundant resources have increased contestations over wealth,
transformed the relationship of people to their environment, and
produced unique forms of power, governance, and belonging.
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 citizenship." He explores the
ways NGOs, militant groups, and community organizers invoke an
ancestral promise to defend land disputes, justify disruptive
actions, or organize against oil corporations. Policies to control
the abundant resources have increased contestations over wealth,
transformed the relationship of people to their environment, and
produced unique forms of power, governance, and belonging.
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