Yorbana Seign-Goura
Biographic Data
| ID | 4194357 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Yorbana Seign-Goura |
| GIVEN NAMES | Yorbana |
| FAMILY NAME | Seign-Goura |
| SIGNATURE | SEIGN-GOURA Y |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Neuchâtel |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0281-369X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 2 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 2 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Toward a Petro-Developmental State? Merits and demerits of the Chadian rentier state
The discovery of oil in Chad in the 1960s and its subsequent exploitation triggered the idea by international institutions that oil extraction would lead to sustainable development. Furthermore, Chad in tackling the resource curse would use rents to solve social, economic and security challenges on its territory. I argue that the state is the main actor in the resource curse, and its power derives rents from natural resources extraction. The curs…
Representations of Oil in Chad
This article presents representations of oil in Chad which have been drawn from ethnographic interviews with a variety of actors, most notably with local oil workers and inhabitants from the oil-producing areas of the country. It reveals that a decade of oil exploitation in Chad was sufficient enough time for a collective imaginary to emerge regarding the implicit and explicit effects of oil. Expectations about the impact of the extractive indust…
Representations of Oil in Chad
This article presents representations of oil in Chad which have been drawn from ethnographic interviews with a variety of actors, most notably with local oil workers and inhabitants from the oil-producing areas of the country. It reveals that a decade of oil exploitation in Chad was sufficient enough time for a collective imaginary to emerge regarding the implicit and explicit effects of oil. Expectations about the impact of the extractive indust…
Representations of Oil in Chad
This article presents representations of oil in Chad which have been drawn from ethnographic interviews with a variety of actors, most notably with local oil workers and inhabitants from the oil-producing areas of the country. It reveals that a decade of oil exploitation in Chad was sufficient enough time for a collective imaginary to emerge regarding the implicit and explicit effects of oil. Expectations about the impact of the extractive indust…
Toward a Petro-Developmental State? Merits and demerits of the Chadian rentier state
The discovery of oil in Chad in the 1960s and its subsequent exploitation triggered the idea by international institutions that oil extraction would lead to sustainable development. Furthermore, Chad in tackling the resource curse would use rents to solve social, economic and security challenges on its territory. I argue that the state is the main actor in the resource curse, and its power derives rents from natural resources extraction. The curs…
Curse (2 works) · Economics (2 works) · Natural resource (2 works) · Natural Resources and Economic Development (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Resource curse (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Anthropology (1 work) · Blessing (1 work) · Development economics (1 work)