When Communities Confront Corporations: Comparing Shell's Presence in Ireland and Nigeria - Hardcover

Onuoha, Austin

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 190670404X ISBN 13: 9781906704049

Publisher: Adonis & Abbey Publishers Ltd, 2008

Synopsis

In April of 2005 Shell sought an injunction in a Dublin court against residents of Erris in northwestern Republic of Ireland who were obstructing the laying of pipelines across their lands. On June 29, 2005 the court convicted and jailed five people for failing to comply with the order of the High Court restraining them from interfering with Shell's project. When Communities Confront Corporations examines the issues and events that led to the incarceration of the Rossport Five and how it resonates with events in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria. It argues that conflicts between communities and corporations, though pervasive, do not appear to receive adequate scholarly attention. The book compares the altercations between Shell and the Erris communities in Ireland and the responses to these conflicts, with similar conflicts generated in the Niger Delta area of Nigeria by the presence of the oil giant. It challenges the so-called conspiracy theory, which is often associated with the oil company's operations in the Niger Delta and argues that the key difference between the two sets of conflicts and responses to them is the context.

Edition details

• Publisher: Adonis & Abbey Publishers Ltd
• Publication date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 190670404X
• ISBN 13: 9781906704049
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 108