Capital, the State, and Environmental Pollution in Nigeria

Buhari Shehu Miapyen and Umut Bozkurt

SAGE Open, 2020, vol. 10, issue 4, 2158244020975018

Abstract: This research discusses the environmental pollution by the capital in the oil-rich Niger Delta region of Nigeria and identifies two historical agents that have the potential to harmonize their social power through a common language that may create a new social and political agency. We argue that the working class and the community-based social movements are necessary but not sufficient agents of transformation in the Nigerian oil-dependent capitalist economy. The cooperation between the global and local sites of resistance is an imperative: a synergy and deliberate action by the conglomerate of trade unions, community-based social movements, nongovernmental organizations, local and global activists, nurtures the potential to transform the capitalist domination, exploitation, and expropriation in Nigeria. Using secondary literature sources, we re-visit the conversation on the role of capital and the pollution of environment in Nigeria through the concept of “Movement of Movements†.

Keywords: racial capitalism; the state; environmental pollution and agents (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.1177/2158244020975018

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