01001pab a2200157 454500 180718b2003 xxu||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d Watts, Michael Economies of violence: more oil, more blood 2003 p.5089-099. 29 Nov Petroleum in the Nigerian context has produced a combustible politics marked by violence. Rather than see oil-dependency as a source of predation or as a source of state military power, this paper explores how oil capitalism produces particular sorts of enclave economies and governable spaces characterised by violence and instability. While the biophysical qualities of oil matter in this analysis, so do the powers of transnational oil companies, the character of the `the oil complex', and the ways in which oil as a territorially-based and nationalised commodity can become the basis for making claims. - Reproduced. Violence Economic and Political Weekly 58848 58848 58848 0 0 0 0 IIPA IIPA 2018-07-19 Volume no: 38, Issue no: 48 AR59293 2018-07-19 2018-07-19 AR