ABSTRACT

This paper re-visits secondary literature on racial capitalism and problematises the Nigerian oil-dependent capitalist economy. The economy of oil extraction dispossesses the peasants of their land and exposes them to pollution. This Oil economy creates a contradiction by producing the agent of its transformation; the community-based social movements. The state and the capital respond to these contradictions by instrumentalizing differences to prevent communal solidarity. Consequently, the indigenous people are racialised as a minority people and within the oil-producing region as sub-ethnic communities. The absence of communal solidarity promotes unmitigated environmental disaster, state hegemony and high returns for the capital; local and global in Nigeria.

摘要

本文重新审视了关于种族资本主义的二级文献，并对尼日利亚依赖石油的资本主义经济进行了问题化。石油开采经济剥夺了农民的土地，并使他们受到污染。这种石油经济通过生产其转化的代理人而产生了矛盾；以社区为基础的社会运动。国家和首都通过将差异工具化以防止社区团结来应对这些矛盾。因此，土著人民被种族化为少数民族，并在产油区内被视为亚族群。缺乏社区团结会导致环境灾难、国家霸权和首都的高回报；尼日利亚本地和全球。