Abstract
The extractive and polluting activities of Shell, the Anglo-Dutch global oil giant which produces slightly over half of Nigeria’s oil, has spawned alienation, protests and resistance across the local host communities of the oil-rich Niger delta region in the past two decades. These took a turn for the worse from the mid-1980s in the wake of a deepening economic crisis, the throes of structural adjustment and a political transition. The Movement for the Survival of Ogoni People (MOSOP) was driven by the quest for self-determination; their aim was to force Shell and the Nigerian state to accept their right to control their own land, and the proceeds therefrom.
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Obi, C.I. (2000). Globalization and Local Resistance: The Case of Shell versus the Ogoni. In: Gills, B.K. (eds) Globalization and the Politics of Resistance. International Political Economy Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230519176_17
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