Environmental Degradation, Militancy/Kidnapping and Oil Theft in Helon Habila’s Oil in Water

Simon, Ed; Akung, Jonas Egbudu; Bassey, B U.

doi:10.5901/mjss.2014.v5n2p383

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“…In the area, many local youths took up arms in retaliation for oil exploration on their land, which they were not involved in planning. Retaliation by youths has resulted in the vandalization of numerous oil pipelines, the killing of oil expatriates, kidnappings, and assassinations (Simon et al., 2014). The Nigerian and State governments’ involvement of local people in the development of the Niger Delta extended only to wealthy elites, resulting in a lack of trust between local people, governments, and oil companies.…”

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Facilitating collaboration and community participation in tourism development: The case of South-Eastern Nigeria

Eyisi

Lee

Trees

2020

Tourism and Hospitality Research

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Collaboration and community participation are crucial for securing sustainable tourism and highlight the need to listen and respond to the broad range of stakeholders’ voices, opinions, and concerns. These concepts dominated the discourse of sustainable-responsible tourism and gave rise to collaboration theory as well as various types of community participation. Many scholars in both Western and emerging economies have employed these concepts; however, there is limited research on how they apply in the Nigerian tourism industry. Therefore, this exploratory research discusses collaboration and community participation in tourism development in Nigeria, using the Southeastern region as a case study. In this area, tourism is in the early phase of growth. The paper reports on interviews and focus group discussions used to interact with tourism stakeholders in the region (traditional rulers, men, women, and youth representatives, chief priests, security agents, and tourism officials). Results showed that while the stakeholders are willing to collaborate, challenges affecting their efforts include autocratic governance structures leading to mistrust, clash of responsibilities, inadequate funding for security, lack of tourism awareness and little respect for local culture. The paper concludes that to develop a resident-friendly tourism destination and sustain collaboration and community participation, stakeholders require education about tourism and opportunities to participate in planning.

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“…Nzama (2008) note gender issues as another challenge to community participation in South Africa with men, concerned that their wives dedicated time to tourism and left their homes unattended. Unequal opportunity for stakeholder participation is prevalent in Nigeria, leading to the vandalization of properties (Simon et al., 2014).…”

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Facilitating collaboration and community participation in tourism development: The case of South-Eastern Nigeria

Eyisi

Lee

Trees

2020

Tourism and Hospitality Research

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“…In describing the gravity of hazards these polluting conditions pose on the health and safety of the people, it is estimated that "over 100 flares sites in the Niger Delta belch 400 million tons of carbon dioxide equivalent into the atmosphere annually" (Simon et al, 2014). Beyond the polluted physical landscape, there are poor, less-advantaged people whose living condition is comparable with the deplorable environmental condition.…”

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Helon Habila and the Trauma of Disposable People in Oil on Water

Ohagwam¹,

Ogbuagu²

2023

AJLS

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Trauma studies is no doubt a burgeoning area of discourse that has captured the literary imagination of academic scholars for a few decades running. This study examined the complex relationship between socio-cultural influences and intimate personal relations portrayed in a trauma fiction as Helon Habila’s Oil on Water. Specifically, how does these depictions in Habila’s fiction direct the awareness of the catastrophic effects of war, poverty, hostage taking, domestic abuse on the individual psyche? How do traumatised people respond? To what extent can one theorize trauma studies and ecocritical studies? How traumatized is the physical landscape portrayed in Habila’s fiction? The study concludes by insisting that government of nations and relevant international organisations, owe the people the responsibility of intentionally committing to rearticulating and rehabilitating the social conditions, voices; indeed, the lives of marginalized people.

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“…In recent years, pundits and critics have paid much attention to the text basing their arguments on the environmental issues embedded in their works. Simon et al (2014) discussed "Environmental Degradation, Militancy/Kidnapping and Oil Theft in Oil on Water'' and the attendant effects on the poor masses. Etuk and Okon (2018) examine language and ideology in Jeta Amata's Black November and conclude that the different ideological inclination used by the major actors in the movie is as a result of the socio-cultural, economic and political factors prevalent in the society in which the movie is set.…”

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A Lexico-Semantic Analysis of Helon Habila’s Oil on Water

Edem¹

2023

International Journal of Literature, Language and Linguistics

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This study, ‘A Lexico-Semantic Analysis of Helon Habila’s Oil on Water’ examines how meaning is negotiated through the use of some cohesive devices in the text. Previous studies have concentrated on the treatment of environmental issues without much attention paid to how cohesive devices are coalesced in the text to produce meaning. Data for the analysis range from page one to one hundred of the primary text, Oil on Water. Also, the study focused on a qualitative research procedure and adopted Halliday and Hasan’s (1976) cohesion theory as a theoretical model, since this work focuses attention on the deployment of the writer’s mental schemata and use of lexical choices to affect meaning in a text. The study observes that words cannot stand in isolation, as they are related to each other in a text to produce predetermined meaning. This was achieved through the author’s careful use of some cohesive devices such as: reiteration, synonymy, antonymy, hyponymy and meronymy, which improve the textual quality of the text. The study concludes that the author, through the use of cohesive devices, made reading of the text meaningful and easily understood by the reader.

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Environmental Degradation, Militancy/Kidnapping and Oil Theft in Helon Habila’s Oil in Water

Abstract: The degradation of the Niger Delta environment through pollution has constituted challenges and concern for the people of the oil rich region. The ecosystem has completely been violated and destroyed.

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Facilitating collaboration and community participation in tourism development: The case of South-Eastern Nigeria

Helon Habila and the Trauma of Disposable People in Oil on Water

A Lexico-Semantic Analysis of Helon Habila’s Oil on Water

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