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Criminal resistance? : the politics of kidnapping oil workers / Temitope B. Oriola.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Oriola, Temitope B.
- Series:
- Interdisciplinary research series in ethnic, gender, and class relations.
- Interdisciplinary research series in ethnic, gender and class relations
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Kidnapping--Political aspects--Nigeria.
- Kidnapping.
- Petroleum industry and trade--Political aspects--Nigeria.
- Petroleum industry and trade.
- Political violence--Nigeria.
- Political violence.
- Nigeria--Politics and government--1960-.
- Nigeria.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (260 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Farnham, Surrey : Ashgate Pub. Ltd., 2013.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- By focussing on kidnappings that are putatively connected to the struggle for emancipating the Niger Delta, Oriola makes the case for analysing the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger (MEND) as a social movement organization, rather than a terrorist or criminal gang by showing how political processes shape kidnappings in the Delta. The use of violent repertoires of contention has not garnered sufficient attention in the social movement literature, despite the fact that that around the world, many similar groups are adopting violent tactics without necessarily eschewing non-violent techn
- Contents:
- Cover; Contents; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1 "Dénouement" as Introduction; 2 Kidnapping as "Public Good": The Actors, Social Benefits and Harms of Nigeria's Oil Insurgency; 3 Criminal Resistance? Interrogating Political Kidnapping; 4 Car Bombing "with due respect": The Idea called MEND; 5 Framing the MEND Insurgency; 6 Master Frames in the MEND Insurgency; 7 A Repertoire of Protest or Criminal Expropriation?; 8 Summary and Conclusions; References; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-315-57483-7
- 1-317-15784-2
- 1-317-15783-4
- 1-299-40730-7
- 1-4094-4992-0
- 9781315574837
- OCLC:
- 1027180389
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