Research

Alero Akporiaye has research interests in the political economy of oil extraction, ethnography of sites of oil extraction, corporate social responsibility and the extractive sector, corporate social responsibility and human rights, political risk and multinational corporations, experimental methods in international political economy, African political economy, African and diasporic African feminist theories in international political economy, and African and diasporic African knowledge production systems. 

Akporiaye is currently working on a book project that is an African feminist political economy investigation of oil conflict in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria. The book argues that prevailing neoliberal explanations of oil conflict in international political economy are incomplete because they are ahistorical. These explanations ignore the role of colonialism and imperialism in shaping colonial and post-colonial political and economic constructions of the local polities of oil-producing communities. Ultimately, she argues that colonial histories and imperialism are vital factors to consider in understanding conflict at sites of resource extraction.

Publications

"Power in natural resource governance project: Power hierarchies in the negotiation of an international petroleum contract," with D.G. Webster. 2023. In Teaching Environmental Politics and Justice: Practices to Engage Students and Build Community, edited by Sikina Jinnah, Jessie Dubreuil, Jody Greene and Samara Foster. Edward Elgar Publishing.

"Competing Investor Response to Direct and Indirect Expropriation:  Evidence from the Extractive Sector." 2023. Review of International Political Economy

 "Evaluating the effectiveness of oil companies' Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)." 2023. The Extractive Industries and Society

"Social license and CSR in extractive industries: A failed approach to governance." 2022. Global Studies Quarterly

"Learning from the past: Pandemics and the governance treadmill," with Webster, D. G., Semra A. Aytur, Mark Axelrod, Robyn S. Wilson, Joseph A. Hamm, Linda Sayed, Amber L. Pearson, Pedro H.C. Torres, and and Oran Young." 2022. Sustainability

"Risk and resilience in the Nigerian oil sector: The economic effects of pipeline sabotage and theft," with Adam Yeeles. 2016. Energy Policy

Working Papers

“Corporate social responsibility and human rights” 

“When Communities Attack: A Classification of Contentious Actions against Extractive Sector Multinational Corporations”

“Multinational Corporations and Political Violence: Trends and Forecasts” with Vito D'Orazio and Clint Peinhardt. 

Research in Progress

The Warri Project: Oil Conflict in the Niger Delta (monograph)

Expropriation and Government Revenues

Political Risk Insurance and Foreign Direct Investment

“Multinational Corporations as Targets of Terrorism” with Clint Peinhardt