From Oil to Water? The Deepening Crises of Primitive Accumulation in the Waterscapes of Nigeria’s Niger Delta

摘要: Using the case of groundwater pollution in Nigeria’s Niger Delta, this paper examines shifting contours primitive accumulation region. Based on two years ethnographic research, unravels losses experienced by individuals and their dependents whose privately owned sources water were polluted. It argues that is a deadly but less discussed form has strong implications for peace development affected communities. The concludes dispossession driven oil exploration Delta operates complex ways generates multifaceted crises; as such, prospects resolving conflicts lie addressing various strands dispossession, including