Ogoni Women's Activism

The Transnational Struggle for Justice Against Big Oil and the State

Domale Dube (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

200 Seiten

2025 | New edition
University of Illinois Press (Verlag)
978-0-252-08865-0 (ISBN)

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In 1995, Nigeria’s dictatorial government executed nine Ogoni leaders fighting for civil rights and against Shell Oil’s depredations of Ogoni land. Domale Dube draws on interviews and participant observation to tell the long-ignored story of how women carved out a role in the Ogoni pursuit of justice. Dube’s account examines and documents the issues that drew women into the movement, from concerns for themselves and their communities to grander visions for the Ogoni. As she shows, these issues not only influenced organizing in Nigeria but also the diaspora in general and the United States in particular. Ogoni women relied upon nonviolent protest to realize their aims. Dube looks at their campaigns and how their actions reflected their concerns, values, interests, and priorities. The result is a rare account of Black women and transnational organizing for women’s, climate, and environmental justice that merges a history of their involvement with an in-depth analysis of the racial, gender, and ethnic dimensions of the Ogoni Struggle.

Domale Dube is an assistant professor in the Department of Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of Alberta.

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Ogoni Women in the Precolonial and Colonial Eras
The Formation of FOWA
Ogoni Feminist Epistemology and Education
Ogoni Women’s Nonviolent Resistance
Trauma, Healing, and Ogoni Women Immigrants’ Transnational Organizing

Conclusion

References

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	26.04.2025
Reihe/Serie	NWSA / UIP First Book Prize
Verlagsort	Baltimore
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	286 g
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
ISBN-10	0-252-08865-4 / 0252088654
ISBN-13	978-0-252-08865-0 / 9780252088650
Zustand	Neuware