Seeing Like an Oil Company: Space, Security, and Global Capital in Neoliberal Africa

By J. Ferguson. 2005

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Subfields: Building and Construction, Development, Economics and Econometrics

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Citations in the corpus

• The Politics of Sustainability and Development (2016, background): “Here, others may assert control, whether through private corporate interests, local elites and warlords, informal militia, drug gangs, or organized terrorist groups (70, 146, 208).”
• Ceasefire capitalism: military–private partnerships, resource concessions and military–state building in the Burma–China borderlands (2011, background): “This conceptualization of land concessions diverges from James Ferguson’s (2005, 380) ‘Angolan model’ – where oil fields are secured, enclaved and ‘globally’ networked while the rest of the country may be left to endemic disorder or warfare. Ferguson’s (2006) conception of ‘usable Africa’ being link”
• Remaking Africa’s Informal Economies: Youth, Entrepreneurship and the Promise of Inclusion at the Bottom of the Pyramid (2016, background): “These benefits and the transformational narratives that accompany them are not easily dismissed in a continent where many experience less an adverse incorporation in the global economy than an exclusion from it (Ferguson, 2005).”
• Globalisation, governance, accountability and the natural resource ‘curse’: Implications for socio-economic growth of oil-rich developing countries (2019, background): “In line with these findings, Ferguson (2005) mentions that, motivated by MNCs’ profit maximisation agenda, their present massive capital investment in ODCs has been affected by some current forms of order in relation to their selective investment strategy which results in CSR vulnerability. Therefor”
• Four decades of support for artisanal and small-scale mining in sub-Saharan Africa: A critical review (2014, background): “…codes and legislation, would both insulate and incubate large-scale mining activity, which would experience unprecedented growth over the course of the decade but rather problematically, taking the form of resource 'enclaves' disconnected from wider society (see Ferguson, 2005; Ackah-Baidoo, 2012).”
• Mining and extractive urbanism: Postdevelopment in a Mozambican boomtown (2015, background): “In its place is a “thin” sociality, revealing the geographies of exclusion and dispossession often found in resource-rich low-income countries (Ferguson, 2005: 380; Bridge, 2009).”
• Making Concessions: Extractive Enclaves, Entangled Capitalism and Regulative Pluralism at the Gold Mining Frontier in Burkina Faso (2018, background): “As Ferguson points out, enclave economies are characterised by private capital that lands—or rather hops— onto ‘‘non-contiguous ‘‘useful” bits that are secured, policed and, in a minimal sense, governed through private or semiprivate means” (Ferguson, 2005, 381).”
• Measuring the World (2011, methodology): “…of politically active groups (Malhotra and Fasel 2005:21).5 Many economic and social indicators, such as the World Bank Worldwide Governance Indicators and the UNDP Human Development Index, are used to assess compliance with social and economic human rights (Filmer-Wilson 2005:28; Green 2001).”