“Green” or “Red”? Reframing the Environmental Discourse in Nigeria
“Green” or “Red”? Reframing the Environmental Discourse in Nigeria
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“绿色”还是“红色”？重塑尼日利亚的环境话语
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2012
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A. Iwilade
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本文探讨了环境社会运动和非政府组织在尼日利亚民主斗争中的作用。特别是，它审查了环境问题，特别是在石油资源丰富的尼日尔三角洲，如何象征着尼日尔三角洲社区的渴望更大程度地参与政治进程。本文认为，由于与经济生产的性质，环境危机在推动尼日利亚的民主话语特别有用。通过将环境危机与民主化和尼日利亚联邦内部的权力互动联系起来，非政府组织和社会运动能够获得对环境事业的支持。然而，这可能对尼日利亚的环境运动产生可怕的影响。由于所有权，而不一定是可持续性，是这种关于资源开采的讨论的中心主题，社会运动可能不会以突出其独特相关性的方式来构建环境讨论。本文最后提出了一个案例，为替代方法的框架环境话语在发展中国家的背景下，如尼日利亚。
This paper invests the role of environmental social movements and NGOs in the struggle for democracy in Nigeria. In particular, it examines how environmental issues, specifically in the oil-rich Niger Delta, have come to symbolise the Niger Delta communities’ craving for greater inclusion in the political process. The paper argues that because of linkages to the nature of economic production, environmental crises have been particularly useful in driving the democracy discourse in Nigeria. By linking environmental crisis to democratisation and the interactions of power within the Nigerian federation, NGOs and social movements have been able to gain support for environmental causes. This may, however, have dire implications for the environmental movement in Nigeria. Because ownership, not necessarily sustainability, is the central theme of such discourse on resource extraction, social movements may not be framing the environmental discourse in a way that highlights its unique relevance. The paper concludes by making a case for alternative methods of framing the environmental discourse in a developing-world context like that of Nigeria.