Mining Conversations on Futurepasts of Oil and Gas Extraction

[Jackson Jack]

The Mining Conversations on the Futurepasts of Oil and Gas was held on 22 September, 2025 where amongst other presentations I discussed my research on the Oily Lifeworlds and Entanglements with Oil Extraction in Nigeria’s Niger Delta region.

The conversation showcased the wicked ambivalences in different narratives of and approaches to lived landscapes of oil extraction. 

It unfolded how a material that emerges from subterranean deep time metabolisms and past lives is brought back to life through extractive technologies and gets to shape social, political, economic, cultural realms and ways of living in very context-specific, yet entangled ways today.

Here is the link to the recording:

 https://vimeo.com/1121081140/ef13196d6f?share=copy

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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

[Efunwole Gbenga Olaniyi]

Good work, JJ.

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