Bringing Women's Voices Back in: Gender and Oil Conflict in the Niger Delta

这个博士后奖学金建立在我的博士论文，批判性地研究了Ogoni非暴力运动和Ijaw暴力运动的比较经验。它探讨了对尼日利亚的尼日尔三角洲的石油资源表示不满所采用的各种策略。我的博士研究表明，尽管奥戈尼人和伊贾人有着相似的生活经历，但他们并没有为共同的事业而战。相反，它们都是由特定和特定社区构建和构建的特定背景下的战斗。在战略逻辑的背景下，解释了嵌入每个社区的特定背景下的战斗中的重要话语。关于尼日尔三角洲的研究往往把两个不同的冲突合并成一个单一的反对和抵抗运动，这破坏了奥戈尼和伊贾。相比之下，我提供了一个新的背景和分析，每个社区如何构建冲突，并作出不同的反应，尼日利亚国家的行动和不作为。然而，与此同时，我的博士研究揭示了几乎完全没有女性的声音，在大多数讨论和分析中，在采用非暴力方面不断提到女性。在关于尼日尔三角洲地区基于资源的冲突的文献中，人们忽视了妇女的观点如何影响了这两个地区的运动，这是一个重要的分析领域，也是本研究金目标的核心。这个拟议的博士后奖学金旨在提高我的专业发展作为一个早期的职业研究人员，让我传播我的博士研究成果，以广泛的学术和非学术观众，建立新的专业网络，并探索在我的博士项目确定的研究新途径。尽管对尼日尔三角洲地区基于资源的冲突进行了大量研究，但我在博士研究中发现的一个重要观察结果是，在大多数分析中几乎完全没有妇女的声音。因此，这项奖学金将为我提供一个难得的机会，更详细地参与我的博士研究结果的性别方面。利用参与性录像-一种越来越多地用于社区发展和人类学研究的创新方法，拟议的研究金将使参与我的研究的妇女能够参与研究进程，传达她们对基于资源的冲突的看法和经历。研究结果应具有重要的政策影响，并将激发尼日利亚和联合王国的公众参与和辩论，这将是研究金的一个重要目标。在探索这项新研究的过程中，奖学金将提供理想的机会，以获得新的研究技能，开发出版物简介，确定新的研究机会，并为继续工作制定新的建议，并建立网络，以发展影响的机会，并通知以及支持我的职业发展。

This postdoctoral fellowship builds on my PhD thesis, which critically examined the comparative experiences of the Ogoni non-violent movement and the Ijaw violent movement. It explored the various strategies employed in expressing grievances over oil resources in the Niger Delta of Nigeria. My Doctoral study established that although the Ogoni and the Ijaw share similar lived experiences, they are not fighting a common cause. Rather, they are each fighting context specific battles that are constructed and framed by particular and specific communities. The important discourses embedded in each community's context specific battle were explained within the context of the strategic logic. Scholarship on the Niger Delta tends to conflate the two distinct conflicts into one single movement of opposition and resistance, which undermines the Ogoni and the Ijaw. In contrast, I offer a new context and analysis to how each community constructs conflicts and reacts differently to actions and inactions of the Nigerian state. However, at the same time, my PhD research revealed the almost entirely absent voices of the women who, in most discussions and analyses were referred to continuously in relation to the adoption of nonviolence. Understanding how the perspectives of women have shaped movements in both regions have been overlooked in the literature on resources-based conflicts in the Niger Delta, it is an important area of analysis, and central to the objectives on this fellowship. This proposed postdoctoral fellowship seeks to enhance my professional development as an early career researcher, allowing me to disseminate my PhD research findings to a wide range of academic and non-academic audiences, build new professional networks, and explore new avenues of research identified in my doctoral project. Although much research has been carried out on resource-based conflict in the Niger Delta, an important observation revealed in my PhD research was that the voices of women are almost entirely absent in most analyses. This fellowship will therefore offer me a rare opportunity to engage with the gendered aspects of my PhD findings in much greater detail. Using participatory video - an innovative methodology increasingly used in community development and anthropological research, the proposed fellowship will enable women involved in my study to participate in the research process, convey their perceptions and experiences of resource-based conflict. The findings should have important policy implications, and will stimulate public engagement and debate in Nigeria and the United Kingdom, which will be an important objective of the fellowship. In the process of exploring this new research, the fellowship will provide the ideal opportunity to acquire new research skills, develop a publication profile, identify new research opportunities and develop new proposals for continuing work, and build networks to develop impact opportunities and inform as well as support my career development.