Violent Ecotropes

Petroculture in the Niger Delta This book provides a unique frame through which it views the cultural aspects of the oil extraction industry within societies that it operates. It highlights the complexity of the universal environmental challenge of our time, and provides three research lenses with which to understand this complex challenge: who and what are represented in this oil culture, the charged and often clashing contexts of globalised fossil fuel extraction industry versus the ecologies of directly affected people and places, and the environmental challenges that will persist as long as carbon based economies persist.

Product Information

Format:

240mm x 168mm (Soft Cover)

Pages:

260

ISBN-13:

978-0-7969-2618-0

Publish Year:

2022

Rights:

World Rights

Acknowledgements v Prologue vii Introduction 1

1 The Niger Delta: Temporality, extraction and the literature of environmental justice 15
2 People, fire and the Promethean allegory in the Niger Delta: Inversions in Ogaga Ifowodo’s The Oil Lamp 41
3 Versifying the environment of the Niger Delta as a critique of nationalism 57
4 The currency of resistance: Violence as rebellion and commodity 77

Epilogue: Apocalyptic realism and the post-oil imagination in the Niger Delta 99 About the author 104 Notes 105 References 119

Index 127

HSRC

Dr Philip Aghoghovwia is a Senior Lecturer in The Department of English at the University of the Free State. He is a fellow of the African Humanities Program (AHP), a fellow of the DHET-Future Professoriate Programme, and an NRF Y1-rated scholar. He was awarded the 2021 African Studies Association (ASA) and Carnegie Corporation of New York (CCNY) Fellow. Aghoghovwia regularly participates in several research projects in environmental and energy humanities, including the Petrocultures Research Cluster (University of Alberta), Environmental Humanities South (University of Cape Town), and Oceanic/Hydro-Humanities (WiSER, University of the Witwatersrand) and these have produced important publications.