The changing forms of identity politics in Nigeria under economic adjustment : the case of the Oil Minorities Movement of the Niger Delta
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The changing forms of identity politics in Nigeria under economic adjustment : the case of the Oil Minorities Movement of the Niger Delta
（Research report / Nordiska Afrikainstitutet = / Scandinavian Institute of African Studies, no. 119）
Nordiska Afrikainstitutet, 2001
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"A report from the research programme: The Political and Social Context of Structural Adjustment in Africa" --Cover
Bibliography: p. [108]-117
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Description
The Niger delta region of Nigeria which is at the heart of the country's oil industry, has a long history of struggles for self-determination dating back to the early years of the 20th century. In the 1980s and 1990s, these struggles, unfolding as they did within the context of military authoritarianism and structural adjustment, took the form of widespread agitation for greater control by local communities of the revenues accruing to the Nigerian state from exploration and extraction of oil. This study attempts to capture the transformations in ethnic minority identity politics in the oil producing areas of the Niger delta. In doing this, attention is simultaneously drawn to the factors informing the shift from peaceful agitation to violent protest as well as the dynamic of decay and renewal in the various ethnic minority movements that are active in the delta. It is suggested that part of the solution to the crisis in the delta will involve not only a thoroughgoing restructuring of the Nigerian state but also the reorientation of the mode of operation of the giant oil multinationals in order to make them both more sensitive and accountable to the local communities.
Table of Contents
Introduction 5 - Contending Perspectives on Oil Minorities 9 -- Ethnicity, Ethnic Identity and Ethnic Minorities in the Niger Delta: - Some Conceptual Issues 12 - Oil Minorities Identity Politics: A Historical Perspective 16 - From Independence to the Outbreak of the Civil War 20 - The Nigerian Civil War and the Aftermath: The Changing Fortunes of the Oil Minorities of the Niger Delta 24 - Economic Crisis, Structural Adjustment and the Changing Forms - of Identity Politics of the Oil Minorities of the Niger Delta 32 - Structural Adjustment Programme in Nigeria: Theoretical Foundations 39 - The Impact of Structural Adjustment on Nigeria 42 - Ethnic Identity Politics under Structural Adjustment 48 - The Changing Global and Domestic Environment 52 - Oil Minorities Movements of the Niger Delta: Patterns of Continuity and Transformation 68 - New Trends, New Contradictions in the Delta: Identity as National Liberation 71 - The Globalisation of Local Struggles in the Niger Delta (1991 1999) 87 - Decay and Renewal in the Oil Minorities Movements - of the Niger Delta 94 - Trajectories of Ethnic Minority Politics in the Niger Delta: Implications for the NationState Project in Nigeria 98 - Concluding Remarks: Niger Delta Oil Minorities Movement - and the Future of Nigeria 102 - References 108 - Appendix 1. The Kajama Declaration 118 - Appendix 2. Ogoni Bill of Rights 121 - Appendix 3. Addendum to the Ogoni Bill of Rights 124
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