Frictional interactions on Women, Peace and Security in Mali

Lorentzen, Jenny

doi:10.1017/s0022278x2100029x

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“…The qualitative research method is relevant in explaining the previously unseen layers of the intersection between oil politics, gender violence and human trafficking, and in capturing the historical, cultural, environmental, socio-economic, and political contexts. This ethnographic method of data collection involving interviews and direct observation, is relevant for the analyses of bottom-up processes and local experiences (Mac Ginty and Richmond, 2016;Lorentzen, 2021). This method is relevant for analyzing the intersecting global and local forces that perpetuate gender violence and human trafficking in the Niger Delta.…”

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Petro-politics, Gender Violence and Human Trafficking in Nigeria’s Niger Delta Region

Babatunde

2024

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In Nigeria’s Niger Delta, oil politics by global oil corporation, national government and local leaders perpetuate gender inequalities in the distribution of oil benefits to the impoverished women in oil communities. Women also bear the greater cost of oil-induced environmental harms which adversely affect their traditional livelihood of farming and fishing and expose them to various forms of gender violence. Scholarship on human trafficking in Nigeria focused scant attention on the structural conditions that influenced women experience of human trafficking in extractive contexts. This article examines how oil politics perpetuate gender violence and expose women to human trafficking for sexual exploitation and forced labour in the oil communities in the Niger Delta. Based on feminist political ecology perspectives and field studies in selected oil communities, the study seeks to explain how oil politics perpetuate women’s socio-economic deprivation, in ways that make them to unwittingly consent to human trafficking as victims and accomplice. Women exposure to human trafficking amplified gender violence and violate their rights and aspiration for emancipation and gender justice. International organizations and policy makers need to consider the global, national and local dynamics that amplified women’s experience of human trafficking in extractive communities and the wider implications for the global and local efforts to combat human trafficking.

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Petro-politics, Gender Violence and Human Trafficking in Nigeria’s Niger Delta Region

Babatunde

2024

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“…Primary data were derived from extensive field investigation in the Niger Delta region. This ethnographic data collection method is considered to be particularly relevant for investigating bottom-up processes and local experiences (Mac Ginty & Richmond 2016; Lorentzen 2021). The qualitative research method utilised in this study is relevant in explaining the previously unseen layers of the complex connection between environmental changes, livelihood and food security through subjective assessments about the cultural values attached to food.…”

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Oil exploitation and food insecurity in Nigeria's Niger Delta

Babatunde

2023

J. Mod. Afr. Stud.

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The destructive impacts of oil exploitation on the natural environment, which the inhabitants of the Niger Delta depend on for their livelihood, pose major threats to food security. Environmental damage alienates the local people from their ancestral lands and erodes their sources of livelihood. This study examines the effect of oil exploitation on the local people's access to sufficient, safe and culturally acceptable food. The study is based on data collected through interviews with key informants and Focus Group Discussions in the oil communities in Bayelsa, Delta and Rivers States. Environmental and livelihood sustainability are intricately interconnected. They have significant implications for food security of people in the oil-rich region. Nutritional adequacy is a necessary but not a sufficient condition for food security because cultural acceptability is also required. This study addresses the interplay between these factors and their implications for household food security in the Niger Delta.

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