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Adaka Boro
armed group mobilisation analysis
Asari Dokubo
Author_Temitope B. Oriola
bayelsa
Bayelsa State
bunkering
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Collective Action Frames
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Delta Insurgency
Environmental Justice Frame
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Foreign Oil Workers
Framing Strategies
Government Ekpemupolo
illegal
Illegal Oil Bunkering
Injustice Frame
insurgency studies
Insurgent Commander
Jomo Gbomo
Kaiama Declaration
Kidnapped Oil Workers
kidnapping
Kidnapping Oil Workers
Master Frames
niger
Niger Delta
Niger Delta conflict
Niger Delta People
Niger Delta People's Volunteer
Niger Delta People’s Volunteer
nigerian
Nigerian State
oil
oil industry violence
Oil Workers
Pipeline Vandalism
qualitative fieldwork Nigeria
resource extraction politics
social movement theory
state
Transnational Oil Corporations
workers
Young Men
Product details
- ISBN 9780815362159
- Weight: 453g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 08 Jan 2018
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Inc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Crude oil extraction in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria generates 96% of all foreign earnings and 85% of state revenues, making it crucial to the survival of the Nigerian state. Several generations of state neglect, corruption and mismanagement have ensured that the Delta region is one of the most socio-economically and politically deprived in the country. By the late 1990s there was a frightening proliferation of armed gangs and insurgent groups. Illegal oil bunkering, pipeline vandalism, disruption of oil production activities, riots, and demonstrations intensified and in 2003, insurgents began kidnapping oil workers at a frenetic pace. In late 2005, an uber-insurgent movement 'organization' was formed in Nigeria. Christened the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND), it operates as an amorphous, multifaceted amalgam of insurgent groups with an unprecedented clinical precision in execution of intents. By focussing on kidnappings that are putatively connected to the struggle for emancipating the Niger Delta, Oriola makes the case for analysing MEND as a social movement organization, rather than a terrorist or criminal gang by showing how political processes shape kidnappings in the Delta. The use of violent repertoires of contention has not garnered sufficient attention in the social movement literature, despite the fact that that around the world, many similar groups are adopting violent tactics without necessarily eschewing non-violent techniques. Based on multi-actor research, including interviews and focus group discussions with community members, military authorities, 42 ex-insurgents directly involved in illegal oil bunkering and kidnapping, and official email statements from 'Jomo Gbomo', the spokesperson of MEND, this book will be of interest to sociologists, political scientists and peace and security studies scholars.
Temitope Oriola is Assistant Professor of Criminology at the University of Alberta, where he received his PhD in 2011. A recipient of the Governor General of Canada Academic Gold Medal, Oriola was Assistant Professor at the University of Massachusetts, Boston and Banting Postdoctoral Fellow (Irving K. Barber School of Arts and Science, University of British Columbia, Canada) prior to joining the University of Alberta faculty. Oriola’s approach to criminology and socio-legal studies focuses on social harm and thus transcends the strictures of the criminal law. His areas of interest include oil-related insurgencies, political kidnapping, use of force by police, ethics of research in conflict zones, and response of Western liberal democratic states to the threat of terrorism. Oriola’s works have been published in leading journals, such as Sociology, the British Journal of Criminology, Critical Studies on Terrorism, African Security and Canadian Ethnic Studies, among others.
