CAS Events: Oil and Rural Infrastructure Development(Nigeria)-Dr Babajide Ololajulo (27 Oct 2014)

Full Title: Oil and Rural Infrastructure Development : Discourses, Methodologies, and Outcomes of Intervention in Oil Communities of Nigeria

Leventis Fellow and anthropologist Dr Babajide Ololajulo presents from his research on the experience of state organised oil-led development intervention among the Ilaje, a coastal Yoruba speaking group in Ondo state, Nigeria. The study examines the different meanings that intervention agencies’ development spending generated among the people, and the way in which ‘entitlement’ and ‘disentitlement’ are constructed around spatial categories of oil-producing and non oil-producing.