Ojogbon Globalization

For the past year, I've been working on two edited books.  The second one was just published. Contesting the Nigerian  State: Civil Society and the Contradictions of Self Organization ,  Edited By Mojúbàolú Olúfúnké Okome   ( Palgrave -Macmillan, 2013) T his book addresses the meanings and implications of self-organization and state society relations in contemporary Nigerian politics. The conventional wisdom in public choice theory is that self-organization could generate collective action problems, via the tragedy of the commons, or the prisoner's dilemma, or a condition akin to Hobbes' state of nature, where selfish interests produce social conflict rather than cooperation. In the absence or unwillingness of the state to provide such services, entire communities in Nigeria have had to band together to repair roads, build health centers, repair broken transformers owned by the public utilities company, all from levies. Consideration of post-autho...