Temitope B. Oriola

Criminal Resistance? (eBook, ePUB)

The Politics of Kidnapping Oil Workers

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

By focussing on kidnappings that are putatively connected to the struggle for emancipating the Niger Delta, Oriola makes the case for analyzing the 'Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta' (MEND) as a social movement organization. Based on multi-actor research, including interviews and focus group discussions with community members, military authorities, 42 ex-insurgents directly involved in illegal oil bunkering and kidnapping, and official email statements from 'Jomo Gbomo', the spokesperson of MEND, this book is of interest to sociologists, political scientists and peace and security studies scholars.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Mai 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317157830
• Artikelnr.: 45096254

Autorenporträt

Temitope Oriola is Assistant Professor of Criminology at the University of Alberta, where he received his PhD in 2011. A recipient of the Governor General of Canada Academic Gold Medal, Oriola was Assistant Professor at the University of Massachusetts, Boston and Banting Postdoctoral Fellow (Irving K. Barber School of Arts and Science, University of British Columbia, Canada) prior to joining the University of Alberta faculty. Oriola's approach to criminology and socio-legal studies focuses on social harm and thus transcends the strictures of the criminal law. His areas of interest include oil-related insurgencies, political kidnapping, use of force by police, ethics of research in conflict zones, and response of Western liberal democratic states to the threat of terrorism. Oriola's works have been published in leading journals, such as Sociology, the British Journal of Criminology, Critical Studies on Terrorism, African Security and Canadian Ethnic Studies, among others.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 "Dénouement" as Introduction
Chapter 2 Kidnapping as "Public Good": The Actors, Social Benefits and Harms of Nigeria's Oil Insurgency
Chapter 3 Criminal Resistance? Interrogating Political Kidnapping
Chapter 4 Car Bombing "with due respect": The Idea called MEND
Chapter 5 Framing the MEND Insurgency
Chapter 6 Master Frames in the MEND Insurgency
Chapter 7 A Repertoire of Protest or Criminal Expropriation?
Chapter 8 Summary and Conclusions