Violent Ecotropes: Petroculture in the Niger Delta

By Philip Aghoghovwia

Environmental devastation. Local militancy. Smuggling. Violence. All of these describe the Niger Delta, the crude-oil extraction center of Nigeria. Philip Aghoghovwia offers a unique interpretation of the region's petroviolence, examining the cultural aspects of the extraction industry in the societies within which it operates. As he considers the charged and often clashing contexts of the industry vs. the ecologies of directly affected peoples/places, Aghoghovwia essentially reframes the environmental challenges that carbon-based civilization poses to local landscapes. CONTENTS: Introduction. The Niger Delta: Temporality, Extraction, and the Literature of Environmental Justice. People, Fire, and the Promethean Allegory of the Niger Delta: Inversions in Ogaga Ifowodo's The Oil Lamp. Versifying the Environment of the Niger Delta as a Critique of Nationalism. The Currency of Resistance: Violence as Rebellion and Commodity. Epilogue: Apocalyptic Realism and the Post-Oil Imagination in the Niger Delta. Conclusion.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0796926182
• ISBN13: 9780796926180
• Release Date: October 2022
• Publisher: HSRC Press
• Length: 132 Pages
• Weight: 0.56 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.3" x 0.3" x 6.8"