How an Economic Imperative is Constructed: The Case of Oil Exploitation in Uganda
A great deal of research has documented how extractive resources are governed once their exploitation has begun, how transnational actors and factors play a role in extractive industries, and how states stick to a path of dependency towards fossil fuel exploitation. However, most of this previous re...
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| Published in: | Revue gouvernance (Ottawa. Éd. française) Vol. 20; no. 2; pp. 29 - 52 |
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| Format: | Journal Article |
| Language: | English |
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Centre d’études en gouvernance de l’Université d’Ottawa
2023
Centre d’études en gouvernance de l’Université d’Ottawa / Centre on Governance University of Ottawa |
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| Summary: | A great deal of research has documented how extractive resources are governed once
their exploitation has begun, how transnational actors and factors play a role in extractive
industries, and how states stick to a path of dependency towards fossil fuel exploitation.
However, most of this previous research has not taken sufficiently seriously domestic
politics. Furthermore, there has been little work on how dependency is constructed before
exploiting these resources. This article fills that gap by showing how oil exploitation has
been constructed as an economic imperative in Uganda. Building on a research design with a
broad range of empirical fingerprints, this article shows that construction of oil as an
economic imperative in Uganda is based on two processes: 1) embedding the meso level within
the macro level through a long-term horizon; and 2) rendering the contingent necessary
through a combination of material and immaterial strategies of state political
control. |
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| ISSN: | 1912-0362 |
| DOI: | 10.7202/1111226ar |