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Book SynopsisTrade Review"An exceptional comparative ethnography! Enclaves of Exception is a fresh and fascinating analytic trajectory; a robust and valuable, if also troubling, insight into contemporary extractive economies struggling with the contradictions of special economic zones. This book is an inspiring contribution to economic anthropology."—Wale Adebanwi, Presidential Penn Compact Professor of Africana Studies, University of Pennsylvania
"Enclaves of Exception is a triumph of scholarship that seamlessly fuses an unparalleled ethnography of the Niger Delta with an analytical vision that encompasses African, European, and East Asian energy regimes—and even the moonshining of the prohibition-era United States. Adunbi demonstrates the enormous potential of attending insistently and expansively to the proliferating enclaves of today's global energy complex."—Douglas Rogers, Yale University
Table of ContentsPreface
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Toward an Anthropology of Extraction
1. Contested Enclaves of Profit
2. Infrastructures of Convenience
3. "This Place Is Not Nigeria"
4. From Moonshine to Ogogoro
5. Flames of Wealth
6. The Social Death of the Environment
Conclusion: Revisiting the Ancestors
Bibliography
Index
