Spaces Of Insurgency
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Spaces of Insurgency
Author: Elias Edise Courson
language: en
Publisher: African Books Collective
Release Date: 2025-05-15
The dominant scholarly and policy discourse on the insurgencies and conflicts in Nigeria’s oil-rich Niger Delta has been significantly shaped by the ‘resource curse’ narrative. This influential framework, deeply integrated into wider debates concerning neoliberal globalization, security, and development (as evidenced by the World Bank’s 2011 World Development Report on security, conflict, and development), positions the Niger Delta as a key case study. The region’s unique context – a global oil and gas industry operating within a pluri-ethnic federal system and a complex social field characterized by a range of contentious struggles (from chieftainship disputes to electoral and territorial conflicts) – seemingly reinforces this narrative. However, this book argues for a necessary shift in focus towards a historical and spatial analysis of crisis from the 19th century to the present. Such an approach, it contends, is crucial for understanding the deep-seated and unresolved animosities that underpin contemporary tensions in the region. By critically interrogating resource curse narratives in the Niger Delta conflicts/insurgencies that have emerged since the 1990s, this book demonstrates the layered and historically contingent nature of these conflicts. Employing an interdisciplinary and comparative methodology, it reflects on the specific ways in which political violence and the security-development nexus in Africa – a subject of considerable academic attention since the 1980s – are situated within broader global patterns of knowledge production. The central contribution of this book lies in its analysis of how spatial dynamics, particularly the interplay between west and east and inter- regional politics, are fundamental to a more nuanced understanding of crisis in the Niger Delta and beyond.
Insurgent Public Space
Winner of the EDRA book prize for 2012. In cities around the world, individuals and groups are reclaiming and creating urban sites, temporary spaces and informal gathering places. These ‘insurgent public spaces’ challenge conventional views of how urban areas are defined and used, and how they can transform the city environment. No longer confined to traditional public areas like neighbourhood parks and public plazas, these guerrilla spaces express the alternative social and spatial relationships in our changing cities. With nearly twenty illustrated case studies, this volume shows how instances of insurgent public space occur across the world. Examples range from community gardening in Seattle and Los Angeles, street dancing in Beijing, to the transformation of parking spaces into temporary parks in San Francisco. Drawing on the experiences and knowledge of individuals extensively engaged in the actual implementation of these spaces, Insurgent Public Space is a unique cross-disciplinary approach to the study of public space use, and how it is utilized in the contemporary, urban world. Appealing to professionals and students in both urban studies and more social courses, Hou has brought together valuable commentaries on an area of urbanism which has, up until now, been largely ignored.
Mobility, Mobilization, and Counter/Insurgency
Author: Daniel E Agbiboa
language: en
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Release Date: 2022-02-15
In Mobility, Mobilization, and Counter/Insurgency, Daniel Agbiboa takes African insurgencies back to their routes by providing a transdisciplinary perspective on the centrality of mobility to the strategies of insurgents, state security forces, and civilian populations caught in conflict. Drawing on one of the world’s deadliest insurgencies, the Boko Haram insurgency in northeast Nigeria and the Lake Chad region, this well-crafted and richly nuanced intervention offers fresh insights into how violent extremist organizations exploit forms of local immobility and border porosity to mobilize new recruits, how the state’s “war on terror” mobilizes against so-called subversive mobilities, and how civilian populations in transit are treated as could-be terrorists and subjected to extortion and state-sanctioned violence en route. The multiple and intersecting flows analyzed here upend Eurocentric representations of movement in Africa as one-sided, anarchic, and dangerous. Instead, this book underscores the contradictions of mobility in conflict zones as simultaneously a resource and a burden. Intellectually rigorous yet clear, engaging, and accessible, Mobility, Mobilization, and Counter/Insurgency is a seminal contribution that lays bare the neglected linkages between conflict and mobility.