When corporate citizens 'second-class' national citizens: The antinomies of corporate-mediated social provisioning in Nigeria's oil province

Author: Akpan, Wilson

Source: Journal of Contemporary African Studies, Volume 27, Number 1, January 2009 , pp. 105-118(14)

Publisher: Routledge, part of the Taylor & Francis Group

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Abstract:

This article explores the contradictions of corporate-aided social provisioning and shows how such contradictions impact on social existence in three oil- and gas-producing communities in Nigeria. It is based in part on the findings of the author's ethnographic work in the three communities. The analysis extends the growing scholarly debate that when the state abandons its developmental obligations to the citizenry, and business voluntarily steps into the centre stage of social provisioning by way of corporate citizenship, the resulting interventions could have profound counter-developmental consequences, especially at the grassroots.

Keywords: petroleum; corporate citizenship; social provisioning; social citizenship; Niger Delta, Nigeria

Document Type: Research article

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02589000802576715

Affiliations: 1: Department of Sociology, University of Fort Hare, East London, South Africa

Publication date: 2009-01-01

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