What is it about?
Nonviolent resistance has been shown repeatedly to be an effective way for communities to hold governments accountable to their populace. This article documents the ways in which Ogoni women of Nigeria have organized since the 1990s and applied nonviolent resistance alongside their community to demand Shell Oil company clean-up the oil spills their activities have caused on their land since oil activities commenced in the late1950s.
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Why is it important?
The article examines how women effectively adapt nonviolent practices beyond the more masculine direct action methods to fit their cultural backgrounds and gender identities which in turn expands our understanding of the various forms nonviolent resistance can take in order to make important and necessary change in the world.
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This article will inspire anyone interested in understanding how regular people can make dramatic shifts in history through organizing. This article represents the first documentation of the important contributions of the Ogoni women and their community in exposing multinational oil corporations' human rights violations in the global south.
Domale Keys
University of Alberta
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This page is a summary of: “Here We Are”: Ogoni Women’s Nonviolent Resistance, Frontiers A Journal of Women Studies, January 2021, Project Muse,
DOI: 10.1353/fro.2021.0011.
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