Paul Ugor
Biographic Data
| ID | 636896 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Paul Ugor |
| GIVEN NAMES | Paul |
| FAMILY NAME | Ugor |
| SIGNATURE | UGOR P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Illinois State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9408-7025 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 20 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Critical Theory and the Global Civic Imagination
In this essay, I show how critical projects of decoloniality might help build a new humanity. I focus on the intellectual output of Chielozona Eze, arguing that, as public-service scholarship, it bears witness to the shifts occurring in contemporary decolonial thought and thus exemplifies the role the humanities can play to midwife an inclusive and empathetic global democratic culture so central to decolonial studies. My analysis aims to demonstr…
Introduction
Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s)
Youth and Popular Culture in Africa
Bonny Ibhawoh’s human rights in Africa
"Bonny Ibhawoh's human rights in Africa: rethinking Africa in the human rights discourse." Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue canadienne des études africaines, 52(3), pp. 365–370
Naturalizing Africa
Naturalizing Africa: The decentering of man and the disenchantment of modernity." Journal of the African Literature Association, 12(2), pp. 211–212
African Youth Cultures in a Globalized World
Survival Strategies and Citizenship Claims
Focusing on Gbekebor, a small rural community in Burutu Local Government Area in Delta State, this article examines the rise of small-scale artisanal oil refineries in the oil-rich Niger Delta area in south-eastern Nigeria. Mostly owned and run by unemployed youth in the Delta region, this informal underground oil economy is a classic example of the ways in which the mass of disgruntled youth in Nigeria have now evolved their own new survival str…
Special Issue Introduction
Many commentators agree that there is something fundamentally unsettling about the new world order in which we now find ourselves (Harvey 1990; Giddens 1991; Giddens and Pierson 1998; Bauman 2000)
Small Media, Popular Culture, and New Youth Spaces in Nigeria
(2009). Small Media, Popular Culture, and New Youth Spaces in Nigeria. Review of Education, Pedagogy, and Cultural Studies: Vol. 31, Youth, Cultural Politics, and New Social Spaces in an Era of Globalization, pp. 387-408
Survival Strategies and Citizenship Claims
Focusing on Gbekebor, a small rural community in Burutu Local Government Area in Delta State, this article examines the rise of small-scale artisanal oil refineries in the oil-rich Niger Delta area in south-eastern Nigeria. Mostly owned and run by unemployed youth in the Delta region, this informal underground oil economy is a classic example of the ways in which the mass of disgruntled youth in Nigeria have now evolved their own new survival str…
Small Media, Popular Culture, and New Youth Spaces in Nigeria
(2009). Small Media, Popular Culture, and New Youth Spaces in Nigeria. Review of Education, Pedagogy, and Cultural Studies: Vol. 31, Youth, Cultural Politics, and New Social Spaces in an Era of Globalization, pp. 387-408
Special Issue Introduction
Many commentators agree that there is something fundamentally unsettling about the new world order in which we now find ourselves (Harvey 1990; Giddens 1991; Giddens and Pierson 1998; Bauman 2000)
Small Media, Popular Culture, and New Youth Spaces in Nigeria
(2009). Small Media, Popular Culture, and New Youth Spaces in Nigeria. Review of Education, Pedagogy, and Cultural Studies: Vol. 31, Youth, Cultural Politics, and New Social Spaces in an Era of Globalization, pp. 387-408
Survival Strategies and Citizenship Claims
Focusing on Gbekebor, a small rural community in Burutu Local Government Area in Delta State, this article examines the rise of small-scale artisanal oil refineries in the oil-rich Niger Delta area in south-eastern Nigeria. Mostly owned and run by unemployed youth in the Delta region, this informal underground oil economy is a classic example of the ways in which the mass of disgruntled youth in Nigeria have now evolved their own new survival str…
African Youth Cultures in a Globalized World
Bonny Ibhawoh’s human rights in Africa
"Bonny Ibhawoh's human rights in Africa: rethinking Africa in the human rights discourse." Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue canadienne des études africaines, 52(3), pp. 365–370
Naturalizing Africa
Naturalizing Africa: The decentering of man and the disenchantment of modernity." Journal of the African Literature Association, 12(2), pp. 211–212
Youth and Popular Culture in Africa
Introduction
Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s)
Critical Theory and the Global Civic Imagination
In this essay, I show how critical projects of decoloniality might help build a new humanity. I focus on the intellectual output of Chielozona Eze, arguing that, as public-service scholarship, it bears witness to the shifts occurring in contemporary decolonial thought and thus exemplifies the role the humanities can play to midwife an inclusive and empathetic global democratic culture so central to decolonial studies. My analysis aims to demonstr…
Political science (9 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Law (7 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Politics (5 works) · Media studies (4 works) · Cultural Industries and Urban Development (3 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works)