1st Edition
Environment and Conflict The Place and Logic of Collective Action in the Niger Delta
By John Agbonifo
Copyright 2019
144 Pages
by
Routledge
144 Pages
by
Routledge
Environmental degradation is a fast-growing problem that not only threatens to erode future development and undermine economic prosperity, but also victimizes and displaces ordinary peoples and communities in some of the most fragile areas of the world. Often grassroots opposition and mobilization is seen through a secular lens, implying that collective action is merely material and provincial.... Read more
Chapter 1 – Environment and Conflict Chapter 2 – Context Matters: Ogoni and Place Making Chapter 3 – Locale: Political and Cultural Context of Mobilisation Chapter 4 - Landscape, Capital and Violence Chapter 5 - Why the Ogoni Mobilised Chapter 6 – From Grievances to Micro-mobilisation : How the Ogoni Mobilised Chapter 7 – Cultural Basis of Mobilisation Chapter 8 - Mobilisation: A Place for Moral Motivation? Chapter 9 - Place and Limit of Mobilisation Chapter 10 – Conclusion
Biography
John Agbonifo is a senior lecturer at the Osun State University, Osogbo, Nigeria.
