scholarly journals Victimhood, Health Challenges and Violent Restiveness in Blood and Oil: Music, Characterization and Colours as Metaphors

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Uche-Chinemere Nwaozuzu ◽  
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Adebowale O. Adeogun ◽  
Cindy Ezeugwu ◽  
Alphonsus C. Ugwu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Psychological Distress ◽  
Environmental Degradation ◽  
Niger Delta ◽  
Political Leadership ◽  
Polluted Environment ◽  
Creative Vision

This study examines the aesthetics, efficacy, and propriety of the embedded metaphors in characterization, music, and colour application as creative vision in projecting victimhood atmosphere around traumatized Niger-Deltans due to many years of deprivation in Blood and Oil. Thus, this study explains how Blood and Oil represents a credible narrative, subsuming polemics of environmental degradation, health misery, massive unemployment, subjugation, and violent restiveness in Niger Delta due to poor political leadership, greed, and corruption. On creative vision, we are discussing how the ingenious application of characterization, music, and colour combined effectively in creating an enduring mood for the scenes in the film as channels of accentuating intended messages. To add relevant scholarly rigor, we applied victimhood theory and interpretive discuss approach to create relevant and lucid insights regarding the inclinations and actions of select characters in the film as well as analysis of relevant secondary texts. In the end, we deduce that the apt portrayal of Niger-Delta oil communities’ extensively degraded and polluted environment validates the reality of anguish and victimhood because of the massively diminished fishing and farming prospects. Lastly, the implication of this scenario is increased unemployment, psychological distress, diseases, and violent restiveness which have reduced enormously the wellbeing of Niger Delta inhabitants.

Letters from a dying college: How the climate crisis demands a wilder pedagogy and wilder policies

2021 ◽  
pp. 147821032110016
Author(s):  
Daniel Ford ◽  
Sean Blenkinsop
Keyword(s):  
Lived Experience ◽  
Environmental Degradation ◽  
Formal Education ◽  
Tertiary Education ◽  
Political Leadership ◽  
Bearing Witness ◽  
Ecological Responsibility ◽  
Open Discussion ◽  
Inclusive Governance ◽  
Climate Crisis

This paper takes the academically unorthodox form of personal correspondence. This method, of letters between two educators writing to one another across the distance of two continents and different experiences, seeks to create an inclusive, confessional tone, one that invites the reader to get closer to the lived experience of those struggling within the educational and environmental crises. Critically, this correspondence also seeks to open discussion about the difficult demands of state secondary and tertiary education. The authors explore issues regarding their denuded experiences of working in formal education settings while bearing witness to environmental degradation and ecological collapse. In light of their exploration, the authors argue for an ‘agrios’, a wilder, more expansive polis, coupled with more ecologically-inclusive governance, to address the current potentially catastrophic political leadership that has seemingly turned away from ecological responsibility. This paper culminates in direct letters that focus on a series of practical proposals for action and on four premises for developing agriocy – the policy that supports the agrios/agriocity.

Youth Restiveness and Industrial Disruption in the Niger Delta

2011 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Oboreh J. Snapps ◽  
Donald I. Hamilton
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Degradation ◽  
Niger Delta ◽  
Job Creation ◽  
Environmentally Friendly ◽  
High Rate ◽  
Developmental Needs ◽  
Revenue Allocation ◽  
Industrial Productivity ◽  
Traditional Economy

We examine the incidence of youth restiveness in the Niger Delta and how this restiveness has affected industrial productivity. It is our opinion that the high rate of unemployment, environmental degradation, dislocation of the traditional economy and unfair revenue allocation are some of the factors that have given rise to youth restiveness in the Niger Delta. Government needs to pay special attention to the developmental needs of the Niger Delta through job creation and the enactment of environmentally friendly policies that will preserve its fragile ecology.

The Glass Cliff

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Clara Kulich ◽  
Michelle K. Ryan
Keyword(s):  
Psychological Distress ◽  
Glass Ceiling ◽  
Gender Stereotypes ◽  
Political Leadership ◽  
Qualitative Studies ◽  
Leadership Positions ◽  
Risk Of Failure ◽  
Glass Cliff ◽  
Do So

A wealth of research has previously shown that gender stereotypes and discrimination keep women from climbing the corporate ladder. However, women who do break through the “glass ceiling” are likely to face new barriers. Research on the glass cliff phenomenon shows that, when women reach positions of power, they tend to do so in circumstances of crisis and instability. A number of archival, experimental, and qualitative studies have demonstrated that women are more likely to rise in the professional hierarchy in difficult, and for these women, potentially harmful, situations. For example, compared to their male peers, women are seen as more desirable for managerial or political leadership positions in times of instability and crises, or following scandals. Such appointments expose women to a higher risk of failure, criticism, and psychological distress, thus a danger of falling off an “invisible” cliff.

scholarly journals Black November: Interrogating The Niger Delta Question

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 151
Author(s):  
Chukwuma Anyanwu
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Degradation ◽  
Niger Delta ◽  
Relative Deprivation ◽  
Descriptive Analysis ◽  
Delta Region ◽  
Niger Delta Region ◽  
The World ◽  
The Media ◽  
Nigerian Government

The paper interrogates the thematic preoccupations of Jeta Amata’s Black November on the vexed issues of the Niger Delta in Nigeria. The issues bordering on the quest for emancipation from injustice, environmental degradation, deprivation, inhuman treatment, negligence, are at the nexus of the agitations and militancy in the region. It draws inferences from what the movie overlooked and what it portrayed such as the failure of dialogue births violence. The objective is to highlight the problems in the Niger Delta and give credence to the thematic concerns raised by the director. Based on Relative Deprivation Theory (RDT), which sees violence as a product of frustration borne out of depriving people of their rights, denial of justice; a sense of oppression sets in that then leads to reactions that may be violent. The method adopted is descriptive analysis.  Findings reveal that the Niger Delta region is much misunderstood, abused and betrayed by its own people, the media, Nigerian government, oil multinationals and the world at large.  It concludes that the misunderstanding is largely a product of media misinformation and that of ignorance on the part of stakeholders and that the filmmaker succeeded in getting his message across.

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