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Youth Cultures & the Fetishization of Violence in Nigeria

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In this paper I develop a conceptual framework for analysing youth cultures of resistance and violence in the context of customary and world religions in which old and new gods are important sources of ideological resistance. Condensing around points of intersection between capital and non-capitalist kin-based economies, I argue that militant youth cultures develop through a ‘double’ articulation between ‘parent’ cultures largely producing use values, and capitalist cultures pervaded by world religions (Christianity, Islam). The former construe social relations between groups struggling to establish rights over strategic natural resources (land, oil, water) in terms of spirit beings and their protective powers against attack; the latter preside today over production for sale and profit according to impersonal market forces that dissolve the social into relationships between ‘things’, the products of labour exchanged in the market place.

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  • Caroline Ifeka, 2006. "Youth Cultures & the Fetishization of Violence in Nigeria," Review of African Political Economy, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 33(110), pages 721-736, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:revape:v:33:y:2006:i:110:p:721-736
    DOI: 10.1080/03056240601119299
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    1. Edlyne Anugwom, 2011. "Something Mightier: Marginalization, Occult Imaginations and the Youth Conflict in the Oil-Rich Niger Delta," Africa Spectrum, Institute of African Affairs, GIGA German Institute of Global and Area Studies, Hamburg, vol. 46(3), pages 3-26.

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