Oil Wealth and Insurgency in Nigeria

Omolade Adunbi is Assistant Professor of Afroamerican and African Studies and Faculty Associate for Program in the Environment at the University of Michigan.

• PrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Environment, Transnational Networks, and Resource Extraction1. Sweet Crude: Neoliberalism and the Paradox of Oil Politics 2. The Spatialization of Human and Environmental Rights Practices 3. Mythic Oil: Corporations, Resistance, and the Politics of Claim-making 4. Contesting Landscapes of Wealth: Oil Platforms of Possibilities and Pipelines of Conflict 5. The State's Two Bodies: Creeks of Violence and the City of Sin 6. Oil Wealth Of Violence: The Social and Spatial Construction of Militancy 7. Proclaiming Amnesty, Constructing Peace: Oil and the Silencing of Violence Conclusion: Beyond The Struggle for Oil ResourcesNotesBibliography Index

Oil Wealth and Insurgency in Nigeria offers a thoughtful new explanation for Nigeria's oil rebellions that will withstand scholarly scrutiny, and strip governments, corporations, and even many NGOs of their operative assumptions about the Niger Delta.(International Journal of African Historical Studies) This book is well written and delivers what it promises to do at the outset. It details appreciably the different claims to Nigerian oil wealth and the consequences that follow when birthright claims go unmet. The growth in oil revenue, and the perception or reality that it has not been shared fairly, have no doubt been the major reasons for power contestation in Nigeria.(Africa Today) This ambitious book employs an anthropological approach to dissecting and understanding relationships among the Nigerian state, multinational corporations, natural resources, local communities in the Niger Delta region, and NGOs. Recommended.(Choice) Clearly presented and accessible, this book offers both a convincing analysis and a fascinating narrative.(Africa) Adunbi's Oil Wealth and Insurgency in Nigeria is an excellent book that should be extensively consulted by anyone interested in understanding the politics of energy production.(African Conflict and Peacemaking Review)