Jesse Salah Ovadia
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 216893 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Jesse Salah Ovadia |
| PRENOMES | Jesse Salah |
| SOBRENOME | Ovadia |
| ASSINATURA | OVADIA J S |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Windsor |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5010-8269 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 22 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 121 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 22 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2011 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
Two Tales of Climate Politics in Canada
This article explores the hegemonic role of oil and gas in Canadian politics and culture alongside contestation over renewable energy (RE). Federally, the governing Liberals represent a middle-ground coalition that both supports the oil/gas industry and seeks to portray itself as a champion of climate action. Significant progress on climate goals is undermined by actions that lock in large-scale carbon emissions for decades. The Ontario Liberal P…
Local content and linkage development in African energy transitions
Expectations of development and jobs associated with the shift to Renewable Energy (RE) are significant in lower-income African countries. As a result, local content policies (LCPs) are currently spreading from the petroleum sector into solar and wind. As with oil and gas, the purpose of LCPs in RE is to prevent the formation of enclaves dominated by foreign multinational corporations with limited involvement of domestic firms, few economic linka…
Two visions of climate colonialism in African gas producers
Resource Nationalism in Zimbabwe
A new wave of resource nationalism washed through southern Africa in the 2000s, driven by rising popular demand for greater local participation in the mining sector value chain, more equitable redistribution of benefits from extractives and strengthened transparency and accountability on the part of local states and foreign-owned mining companies. In the context of heightened political contestation and improved commodity prices, a succession of p…
Ocean and land grabbing in Ghana's offshore petroleum industry
Ghana's petroleum industry is located several nautical miles offshore in the Western Region of the country. Yet, the mechanisms and processes of production and transportation of crude petroleum are accompanied by the dispossessing of the adjoining coastal communities of their means of (re)production both on the ocean and on land. Although the insights of agrarian political economy have been deployed fruitfully to analyse land grabs in Africa, sim…
Addressing gender inequality through employment and procurement
Local Content in Developing and Middle-Income Countries
Incommensurable languages of value and petro-geographies
Ghana's petroleum industry
With much fanfare, Ghana's Jubilee Oil Field was discovered in 2007 and began producing oil in 2010. In the six coastal districts nearest the offshore fields, expectations of oil-backed development have been raised. However, there is growing concern over what locals perceive to be negative impacts of oil and gas production. Based on field research conducted in 2010 and 2015 in the same communities in each district, this paper presents a longitudi…
Oil exploration and production in Sub-Saharan Africa, 1990-present
Developmental States Beyond East Asia
Studying the developmental state
This paper examines theoretical and methodological issues in the study of African developmental states. We argue that applying this concept beyond East Asia must take into account changes in the global economic context – in particular systemic tendencies towards deficient consumer demand – to uncover the conditions under which demand for commodity production remains or becomes expansionary. We further argue for a mixed methods case study approach…
The theory and practice of building developmental states in the Global South
Reviewing decades of thinking regarding the role of the state in economic development, we argue for the continued relevance of the concept of the ‘developmental state’. With reference to Argentina, Brazil, Ethiopia, Rwanda and China, we contend that new developmental states are evidence of a move beyond the historical experience of East Asian development. Further, we argue for the applicability of the developmental state framework to key question…
Trajectories of large-scale land acquisition dynamics in Angola
Local content policies and petro-development in Sub-Saharan Africa
The new kings of crude
Additional informationNotes on contributorsJesse Salah OvadiaJesse Salah Ovadia (PhD, York University Canada) is a lecturer in international political economy at Newcastle University and Director of the MA in Globalization, Poverty and Development. His research focuses on the political economy of oil and development in Africa, local content policies and state-led development through natural resources. Email: [email protected]
Local content and natural resource governance
Accumulation with or without dispossession? A ‘both/and’ approach to China in Africa with reference to Angola
In the burgeoning field of research on China in Africa, analyses generally fall on a continuum between two divergent positions. With reference to Angola, this paper reviews perspectives on China in Africa as well as the main features of Chinese engagement with the continent in order to interrogate the ‘divide’ between the ‘China threat’ and ‘peaceful rise’ positions. The goal is not to take a centrist position, but rather to suggest that China re…
The Nigerian "One Percent" and the Management of National Oil Wealth through Nigerian Content
Five decades of oil production in Nigeria have failed to produce meaningful economic or social development. Instead, the country has become a laboratory for economists proposing policy solutions to the "resource curse." To increase the benefit accruing to the nation from its resource wealth, Nigeria has adopted "local content" policies, seeking to domicile in Nigeria oil-related economic activity previously located abroad. The stated aim of the N…
The Making of Oil-backed Indigenous Capitalism in Nigeria
There has been considerable growth in the past few years in the number and size of Nigerian companies providing services to the oil and gas industry. The capacity of these companies, enhanced by local content policy, will not only create economic development in the industry, but will also likely boost the development of Nigeria's manufacturing and service economies. While 'Nigerian content' faces many challenges in terms of implementation, it has…
The dual nature of local content in Angola's oil and gas industry
After decades of underdevelopment and conflict in the face of massive resource wealth, Angola is putting in place new strategies to dramatically increase its participation in its oil & gas and related services sectors. Although ‘local content’, or ‘Angolanização’, has been in place for decades, it has largely failed to increase the developmental benefits accruing from the country's resource wealth. The new local content push is likely to succeed …
Stepping Back from the Brink
During the 2008 Ghanaian election, the threat of violence in northern Ghana, due to an unresolved chieftaincy dispute in the Dagbon Traditional Area, brought the city of Tamale to the brink of widespread conflict. The dispute divided communities on the basis of religion, familial ties, and partisan affiliation. With high stakes, even higher tensions, and party supporters on both sides organized and armed. This article blends interviews and observ…
The theory and practice of building developmental states in the Global South
Reviewing decades of thinking regarding the role of the state in economic development, we argue for the continued relevance of the concept of the ‘developmental state’. With reference to Argentina, Brazil, Ethiopia, Rwanda and China, we contend that new developmental states are evidence of a move beyond the historical experience of East Asian development. Further, we argue for the applicability of the developmental state framework to key question…
Local content and natural resource governance
Oil exploration and production in Sub-Saharan Africa, 1990-present
Local Content in Developing and Middle-Income Countries
The Making of Oil-backed Indigenous Capitalism in Nigeria
There has been considerable growth in the past few years in the number and size of Nigerian companies providing services to the oil and gas industry. The capacity of these companies, enhanced by local content policy, will not only create economic development in the industry, but will also likely boost the development of Nigeria's manufacturing and service economies. While 'Nigerian content' faces many challenges in terms of implementation, it has…
The Nigerian "One Percent" and the Management of National Oil Wealth through Nigerian Content
Five decades of oil production in Nigeria have failed to produce meaningful economic or social development. Instead, the country has become a laboratory for economists proposing policy solutions to the "resource curse." To increase the benefit accruing to the nation from its resource wealth, Nigeria has adopted "local content" policies, seeking to domicile in Nigeria oil-related economic activity previously located abroad. The stated aim of the N…
Studying the developmental state
This paper examines theoretical and methodological issues in the study of African developmental states. We argue that applying this concept beyond East Asia must take into account changes in the global economic context – in particular systemic tendencies towards deficient consumer demand – to uncover the conditions under which demand for commodity production remains or becomes expansionary. We further argue for a mixed methods case study approach…
The dual nature of local content in Angola's oil and gas industry
After decades of underdevelopment and conflict in the face of massive resource wealth, Angola is putting in place new strategies to dramatically increase its participation in its oil & gas and related services sectors. Although ‘local content’, or ‘Angolanização’, has been in place for decades, it has largely failed to increase the developmental benefits accruing from the country's resource wealth. The new local content push is likely to succeed …
The new kings of crude
Additional informationNotes on contributorsJesse Salah OvadiaJesse Salah Ovadia (PhD, York University Canada) is a lecturer in international political economy at Newcastle University and Director of the MA in Globalization, Poverty and Development. His research focuses on the political economy of oil and development in Africa, local content policies and state-led development through natural resources. Email: [email protected]
Accumulation with or without dispossession? A ‘both/and’ approach to China in Africa with reference to Angola
In the burgeoning field of research on China in Africa, analyses generally fall on a continuum between two divergent positions. With reference to Angola, this paper reviews perspectives on China in Africa as well as the main features of Chinese engagement with the continent in order to interrogate the ‘divide’ between the ‘China threat’ and ‘peaceful rise’ positions. The goal is not to take a centrist position, but rather to suggest that China re…
Incommensurable languages of value and petro-geographies
Trajectories of large-scale land acquisition dynamics in Angola
Addressing gender inequality through employment and procurement
Ghana's petroleum industry
With much fanfare, Ghana's Jubilee Oil Field was discovered in 2007 and began producing oil in 2010. In the six coastal districts nearest the offshore fields, expectations of oil-backed development have been raised. However, there is growing concern over what locals perceive to be negative impacts of oil and gas production. Based on field research conducted in 2010 and 2015 in the same communities in each district, this paper presents a longitudi…
Stepping Back from the Brink
During the 2008 Ghanaian election, the threat of violence in northern Ghana, due to an unresolved chieftaincy dispute in the Dagbon Traditional Area, brought the city of Tamale to the brink of widespread conflict. The dispute divided communities on the basis of religion, familial ties, and partisan affiliation. With high stakes, even higher tensions, and party supporters on both sides organized and armed. This article blends interviews and observ…
The Making of Oil-backed Indigenous Capitalism in Nigeria
There has been considerable growth in the past few years in the number and size of Nigerian companies providing services to the oil and gas industry. The capacity of these companies, enhanced by local content policy, will not only create economic development in the industry, but will also likely boost the development of Nigeria's manufacturing and service economies. While 'Nigerian content' faces many challenges in terms of implementation, it has…
The dual nature of local content in Angola's oil and gas industry
After decades of underdevelopment and conflict in the face of massive resource wealth, Angola is putting in place new strategies to dramatically increase its participation in its oil & gas and related services sectors. Although ‘local content’, or ‘Angolanização’, has been in place for decades, it has largely failed to increase the developmental benefits accruing from the country's resource wealth. The new local content push is likely to succeed …
Accumulation with or without dispossession? A ‘both/and’ approach to China in Africa with reference to Angola
In the burgeoning field of research on China in Africa, analyses generally fall on a continuum between two divergent positions. With reference to Angola, this paper reviews perspectives on China in Africa as well as the main features of Chinese engagement with the continent in order to interrogate the ‘divide’ between the ‘China threat’ and ‘peaceful rise’ positions. The goal is not to take a centrist position, but rather to suggest that China re…
The Nigerian "One Percent" and the Management of National Oil Wealth through Nigerian Content
Five decades of oil production in Nigeria have failed to produce meaningful economic or social development. Instead, the country has become a laboratory for economists proposing policy solutions to the "resource curse." To increase the benefit accruing to the nation from its resource wealth, Nigeria has adopted "local content" policies, seeking to domicile in Nigeria oil-related economic activity previously located abroad. The stated aim of the N…
Local content and natural resource governance
The new kings of crude
Additional informationNotes on contributorsJesse Salah OvadiaJesse Salah Ovadia (PhD, York University Canada) is a lecturer in international political economy at Newcastle University and Director of the MA in Globalization, Poverty and Development. His research focuses on the political economy of oil and development in Africa, local content policies and state-led development through natural resources. Email: [email protected]
Local content policies and petro-development in Sub-Saharan Africa
Trajectories of large-scale land acquisition dynamics in Angola
Studying the developmental state
This paper examines theoretical and methodological issues in the study of African developmental states. We argue that applying this concept beyond East Asia must take into account changes in the global economic context – in particular systemic tendencies towards deficient consumer demand – to uncover the conditions under which demand for commodity production remains or becomes expansionary. We further argue for a mixed methods case study approach…
The theory and practice of building developmental states in the Global South
Reviewing decades of thinking regarding the role of the state in economic development, we argue for the continued relevance of the concept of the ‘developmental state’. With reference to Argentina, Brazil, Ethiopia, Rwanda and China, we contend that new developmental states are evidence of a move beyond the historical experience of East Asian development. Further, we argue for the applicability of the developmental state framework to key question…
Oil exploration and production in Sub-Saharan Africa, 1990-present
Developmental States Beyond East Asia
Local Content in Developing and Middle-Income Countries
Incommensurable languages of value and petro-geographies
Ghana's petroleum industry
With much fanfare, Ghana's Jubilee Oil Field was discovered in 2007 and began producing oil in 2010. In the six coastal districts nearest the offshore fields, expectations of oil-backed development have been raised. However, there is growing concern over what locals perceive to be negative impacts of oil and gas production. Based on field research conducted in 2010 and 2015 in the same communities in each district, this paper presents a longitudi…
Addressing gender inequality through employment and procurement
Ocean and land grabbing in Ghana's offshore petroleum industry
Ghana's petroleum industry is located several nautical miles offshore in the Western Region of the country. Yet, the mechanisms and processes of production and transportation of crude petroleum are accompanied by the dispossessing of the adjoining coastal communities of their means of (re)production both on the ocean and on land. Although the insights of agrarian political economy have been deployed fruitfully to analyse land grabs in Africa, sim…
Resource Nationalism in Zimbabwe
A new wave of resource nationalism washed through southern Africa in the 2000s, driven by rising popular demand for greater local participation in the mining sector value chain, more equitable redistribution of benefits from extractives and strengthened transparency and accountability on the part of local states and foreign-owned mining companies. In the context of heightened political contestation and improved commodity prices, a succession of p…
Two Tales of Climate Politics in Canada
This article explores the hegemonic role of oil and gas in Canadian politics and culture alongside contestation over renewable energy (RE). Federally, the governing Liberals represent a middle-ground coalition that both supports the oil/gas industry and seeks to portray itself as a champion of climate action. Significant progress on climate goals is undermined by actions that lock in large-scale carbon emissions for decades. The Ontario Liberal P…
Local content and linkage development in African energy transitions
Expectations of development and jobs associated with the shift to Renewable Energy (RE) are significant in lower-income African countries. As a result, local content policies (LCPs) are currently spreading from the petroleum sector into solar and wind. As with oil and gas, the purpose of LCPs in RE is to prevent the formation of enclaves dominated by foreign multinational corporations with limited involvement of domestic firms, few economic linka…
Two visions of climate colonialism in African gas producers
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