Research Article Publication

[Jackson Jack]

Dear all,

I am delighted to share my new research publication with the community. The paper titled Maldaptation to environmental pollution: oil and the 'livelihood dysfunction trap' in Nigeria's Niger Delta was published in Africa.

Please find below the link to the article as it is open access.

(Mal)adaptation to environmental pollution: oil and the ‘livelihood dysfunction trap’ in Nigeria’s Niger Delta | Africa | Cambridge Core 

Many thanks. 

Abstract

The article interrogates the livelihood responses that households in marginal farming and fishing communities rely on as ways of adapting to environmental degradation due to oil spillages and gas flaring in Nigeria’s Niger Delta. It demonstrates how local perceptions and understandings of environmental pollution help communities frame livelihood responses to environmental problems in their domain. Relying on an analysis of ethnographic field-based data, the article identifies a plurality of adaptation strategies in farming and fishing. It reveals that these strategies are palliative and unable to mitigate the long-term environmental effects of oil and gas extraction in the region. This situation incentivizes a gradual shift from farming and fishing to crude oil-based livelihood activities, particularly artisanal crude oil refining, known as ‘kpo-fire’. The study foregrounds kpo-fire as a predominant maladaptive response, which, despite being an economic alternative for many, exacerbates environmental pollution; this results in a vicious circle, which is emblematic of what the article refers to as the ‘livelihood dysfunction trap’.

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Jackson Tamunosaki Jack (PhD)

Department of Sociology & Anthropology,

Federal University, Otuoke, Nigeria.

+2348037598165

Postdoctoral Fellow,

Environmental Histories of Resource Extraction in Africa (AfrExtract), 

University of Groningen, Netherlands.

+31686163823

orcid.org/0000-0003-4326-8544

Latest Publications

(Mal)adaptation to environmental pollution: oil and the ‘livelihood dysfunction trap’ in Nigeria’s Niger Delta | Africa | Cambridge Core 

Oil, Environment, and Lifeworlds in the Niger Delta 

A cultural perspective on the cycle of violent conflicts in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria | The Economics of Peace and Security Journal

Pluralizing archives for histories of extraction in Africa 

‘Living Rugged, Dying Brutal’ | Ubuntu: Journal of Conflict and Social Transformation

[Dr. Bonn Jonyo]

Congratulations JJ for this achievement.

Dr Bonn Jonyo

Senior Research Fellow

RESEARCH INNOVATION AND OUTREACH

KCA University

P. O. Box 56808 - 00200, Nairobi, Kenya

Tel: 0722674700

email: bjo...@kcau.ac.ke

website: www.kcau.ac.ke

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[Hazvinei mang'anda20]

Congratulations Jackson

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[Efunwole Gbenga Olaniyi]

Congratulations JJ.

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