| ID | 182405 |
| Title Proper | Capital, state and the production of differentiated social value in Nigeria |
| Language | ENG |
| Author | Miapyen, Buhari Shehu |
| Summary / Abstract (Note) | This paper re-visits secondary literature on racial capitalism and problematises the Nigerian oil-dependent capitalist economy. The economy of oil extraction dispossesses the peasants of their land and exposes them to pollution. This Oil economy creates a contradiction by producing the agent of its transformation; the community-based social movements. The state and the capital respond to these contradictions by instrumentalizing differences to prevent communal solidarity. Consequently, the indigenous people are racialised as a minority people and within the oil-producing region as sub-ethnic communities. The absence of communal solidarity promotes unmitigated environmental disaster, state hegemony and high returns for the capital; local and global in Nigeria. |
| `In' analytical Note | Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power Vol. 28, No.6; Dec 2021: p.655-673 |
| Journal Source | Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power 2021-12 28, 6 |
| Key Words | State ; Racial Capitalism ; The Capital ; Social Differences ; Exploitation and Expropriation |