Criminal resistance? : the politics of kidnapping of oil workers

Summary: By focussing on kidnappings that are putatively connected to the struggle for emancipating the Niger Delta, Oriola makes the case for analysing the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger (MEND) as a social movement organization, rather than a terrorist or criminal gang by showing how political processes shape kidnappings in the Delta. The use of violent repertoires of contention has not garnered sufficient attention in the social movement literature, despite the fact that that around the world, many similar groups are adopting violent tactics without necessarily eschewing non-violent techn.

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ISBN: 9781409449911
ISBN: 1409449920
ISBN: 9781409449928
Physical Description: 1 online resource.
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Publisher: Farnham, Surrey : Ashgate Publishing Limited, [2013]
Copyright: ©2013

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General Note:	Multi-User. CatMonthString:august.17
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Cover; Contents; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1 "Dénouement" as Introduction; 2 Kidnapping as "Public Good": The Actors, Social Benefits and Harms of Nigeria's Oil Insurgency; 3 Criminal Resistance? Interrogating Political Kidnapping; 4 Car Bombing "with due respect": The Idea called MEND; 5 Framing the MEND Insurgency; 6 Master Frames in the MEND Insurgency; 7 A Repertoire of Protest or Criminal Expropriation?; 8 Summary and Conclusions; References; Index.
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