Oil and the Production of Competing Subjectivities in Nigeria

Platforms of Possibilities" and "Pipelines of Conflict

Bibliographic Data

ID2431836
AuthorsỌmọlade Adunbi (0000-0003-1481-0883, African Studies Centre, corresponding author)
Year2011
Volume54
Issue3
Pages101-120
Publication date2011-12-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueAfrican Studies Review (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0002-0206 • E-ISSN: 1555-2462
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1353/arw.2011.0064
OpenAlexW2065065477
LanguageEN
Citations received12
References cited32

This article examines how multinational corporations, recognizing the symbolic value of oil pipelines, flow stations, and platforms as ancestral promises of wealth to subject populations, work with NGOs and communities (sometimes in collaboration with the latter, but sometimes in a more adversarial manner) in setting up governance structures that often compete with, and sometimes oppose, the state in struggles over territorial control and resource extraction. These forms of contestations, it argues, create new sites of power in which NGOs aid multinational oil corporations in negotiating new sites of governance that in themselves create new structures of power

Adversarial system · Business · Corporate governance · Economics · Multinational corporation · Negotiation · Petroleum industry · Pipeline transport · Political economy · Political science · Power (physics · Production (economics · Resource (disambiguation · Sociology · State (computer science · Value (mathematics · Work (physics · Computer Science · Engineering · Law · Middle East and Rwanda Conflicts · Mining and Resource Management · Natural Resources and Economic Development

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