{"product_id":"enclaves-of-exception-1","title":"Enclaves of Exception","description":"\u003cp\u003eHow do we measure and truly grasp the sweeping social and environmental effects of an oil-based economy? Focusing on the special economic zones resulting from China's trading partnership with Nigeria, \u003ci\u003eEnclaves of Exception\u003c\/i\u003e offers a new approach to exploring the relationship between oil and technologies of extraction and their interrelatedness to local livelihoods and environmental practices. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn this groundbreaking work, Omolade Adunbi argues that even though the exploitation of oil resources is dominated by big corporations, it establishes opportunities for many former Nigerian insurgents and their local communities to contest the ownership of such resources in the oil-rich Niger Delta and to extract oil themselves and sell it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBased on extensive ethnographic fieldwork, \u003ci\u003eEnclaves of Exception\u003c\/i\u003e makes clear that, although both the free trade zones and the now booming local artisanal refineries share the goals of profit-making and are enthusiastically supported by those benefiting from them economically, they have yielded dramatically the same environmental outcome for communities around them that included pollution with precarious effects on the health of the populations in the regions, and  displacement of population from their livelihood practices.\u003c\/p\u003e\n","brand":"Omolade Adunbi","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43573260255414,"sku":"9780253059574","price":23.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0251\/4980\/0541\/files\/9780253059574_f2d0bdad-28cf-4852-a877-608bf9536f6e.jpg?v=1726140339","url":"https:\/\/combined-academic.myshopify.com\/products\/enclaves-of-exception-1","provider":"Combined Academic Publishers - Mare Nostrum Group","version":"1.0","type":"link"}