Discursive construction of the farmer-pastoralist conflict in Nigeria

The farmer-pastoralist conflict (FPC) in Nigeria has aggravated in recent years. It generated intense debate between 2015 and 2018 because of the aggravation of the conflict and the increased fatalities associated with it. This paper analyses the media representation of the conflict. Data were newsp...

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Autor principal:	Nwankwo Cletus Famous
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Publicado:	De Gruyter 2021
Materias:	conflict environmental security farmers media discourse pastoralist subjective beliefs Political science J
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:7c1331ce41504e138fafb39b541d670d2021-12-05T14:11:00ZDiscursive construction of the farmer-pastoralist conflict in Nigeria2543-804210.1515/openps-2021-0014https://doaj.org/article/7c1331ce41504e138fafb39b541d670d2021-03-01T00:00:00Zhttps://doi.org/10.1515/openps-2021-0014https://doaj.org/toc/2543-8042The farmer-pastoralist conflict (FPC) in Nigeria has aggravated in recent years. It generated intense debate between 2015 and 2018 because of the aggravation of the conflict and the increased fatalities associated with it. This paper analyses the media representation of the conflict. Data were newspapers’ editorials and regular columnists’ stories and supplemented by government and independent bodies’ reports. Newspapers, as agents of popular culture, play a critical role in the propagation of various discourses of the conflict which seek interpellation and are also contested. This paper shows that the discourse is dichotomous and conflictive between ecological reasoning and ethnic-regional and religious imaginations.Nwankwo Cletus FamousDe Gruyterarticleconflictenvironmental securityfarmersmedia discoursepastoralistsubjective beliefsPolitical scienceJENOpen Political Science, Vol 4, Iss 1, Pp 136-146 (2021)
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description	The farmer-pastoralist conflict (FPC) in Nigeria has aggravated in recent years. It generated intense debate between 2015 and 2018 because of the aggravation of the conflict and the increased fatalities associated with it. This paper analyses the media representation of the conflict. Data were newspapers’ editorials and regular columnists’ stories and supplemented by government and independent bodies’ reports. Newspapers, as agents of popular culture, play a critical role in the propagation of various discourses of the conflict which seek interpellation and are also contested. This paper shows that the discourse is dichotomous and conflictive between ecological reasoning and ethnic-regional and religious imaginations.
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title	Discursive construction of the farmer-pastoralist conflict in Nigeria
title_short	Discursive construction of the farmer-pastoralist conflict in Nigeria
title_full	Discursive construction of the farmer-pastoralist conflict in Nigeria
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Discursive construction of the farmer-pastoralist conflict in Nigeria

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