Niger Delta: The Business of the Oil Curse /

Niger Delta: The Business of the Oil Curse / / Marc-Antoine Pérouse de Montclos.

Based on 30 years of fieldwork in the Niger Delta, this book debunks the determinism of the resource curse theory in Nigeria, Africa's leading oil producer and the most populous country on the continent. It rather shows that oil and gas production is only one element of a social problem with mu...

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Superior document:Social Sciences E-Books Online, Collection 2024
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Montclos, Marc-Antoine Pérouse de,
Place / Publishing House:Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, 2024.
©2024
Year of Publication:2024
Edition:1st ed.
Language:English
Series:Social Sciences E-Books Online, Collection 2024.
Youth in a Globalizing World ; 22.
Physical Description:1 online resource (314 pages)
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Table of Contents:
  • Front Matter
  • Preliminary Material / Marc-Antoine Pérouse de Montclos
  • Copyright Page / Marc-Antoine Pérouse de Montclos
  • Part 1
  • Chapter 1 First Stirrings / Marc-Antoine Pérouse de Montclos
  • Chapter 2 Mirages in the Midst of War / Marc-Antoine Pérouse de Montclos
  • Chapter 3 Boom or Doom? / Marc-Antoine Pérouse de Montclos
  • Chapter 4 Shell, the Dictator and the Writer / Marc-Antoine Pérouse de Montclos
  • Chapter 5 Militants or Pirates? / Marc-Antoine Pérouse de Montclos
  • Chapter 6 The Gangster and the Godfather / Marc-Antoine Pérouse de Montclos
  • Part 2
  • Chapter 7 In Search of Lost Oil / Marc-Antoine Pérouse de Montclos
  • Chapter 8 The End of the Trinity / Marc-Antoine Pérouse de Montclos
  • Chapter 9 Majors, Domestic Firms, and the National Company / Marc-Antoine Pérouse de Montclos
  • Chapter 10 Ruling without Governing / Marc-Antoine Pérouse de Montclos
  • Chapter 11 Dividing without Ruling / Marc-Antoine Pérouse de Montclos
  • Part 3
  • Chapter 12 Big Business and Political Power / Marc-Antoine Pérouse de Montclos
  • Chapter 13 The Leviathan of the Mangroves / Marc-Antoine Pérouse de Montclos
  • Chapter 14 “Authority Stealing” / Marc-Antoine Pérouse de Montclos
  • Chapter 15 Pollution / Marc-Antoine Pérouse de Montclos
  • Chapter 16 Incoherence and Fantasy / Marc-Antoine Pérouse de Montclos
  • Conclusion / Marc-Antoine Pérouse de Montclos
  • Annex 1 Overview of “Cult” Societies in Nigeria / Marc-Antoine Pérouse de Montclos
  • Annex 2 Three Examples of Domestic Companies / Marc-Antoine Pérouse de Montclos
  • Back Matter
  • Index / Marc-Antoine Pérouse de Montclos.

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