The Adaka Boro Centre

The Sinister Political Life of Community: Economies of Violence and Governable Spaces in the Niger Delta, Nigeria: Michael Watts; 2004.

My argument runs something like this. Modern petro-capitalism operates through a particular “oil complex” (an institutional configuration of firms, state apparatuses, and oil communities) that constitutes a radical—and multifaceted—challenge to customary forms of community authority, systems of ethnic identity, and the functioning of local state institutions.