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Author Adunbi, Omolade, author

Title Enclaves of exception : special economic zones and extractive practices in Nigeria / Omolade Adunbi
Published Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [2022]

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Contents Introduction: Toward an Anthropology of Extraction -- Contested Enclaves of Profit -- Infrastructures of Convenience -- "This Place Is Not Nigeria" -- From Moonshine to Ogogoro -- Flames of Wealth -- The Social Death of the Environment -- Conclusion: Revisiting the Ancestors
Summary "How do we measure and truly grasp the sweeping social and environmental effects of an oil-based economy? Focusing on the special economic zones resulting from China's trading partnership with Nigeria, Enclaves of Exception offers a new approach to exploring the relationship between oil and technologies of extraction and their interrelatedness to local livelihoods and environmental practices. In this groundbreaking work, Omolade Adunbi argues that even though the exploitation of oil resources is dominated by big corporations, it establishes opportunities for many former Nigerian insurgents and their local communities to contest the ownership of such resources in the oil-rich Niger Delta and to extract oil themselves and sell it. Based on extensive ethnographic fieldwork, Enclaves of Exception makes clear that, although both the free trade zones and the now booming local artisanal refineries share similar goals of profit-making and are enthusiastically supported by those benefiting from them economically, they have yielded dramatically different environmental outcomes for the communities around them"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher
Subject Petroleum industry and trade -- Nigeria
Free ports and zones -- Nigeria.
POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / Trade & Tariffs
Free ports and zones
International economic relations
Petroleum industry and trade
SUBJECT Nigeria -- Foreign economic relations -- China
China -- Foreign economic relations -- Nigeria
Subject China
Nigeria
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2021033523
ISBN 0253059569
9780253059567