International advocacy NGOs, counter accounting, accountability and engagement

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Ecological damage, human rights and oil: local advocacy NGOs dialogic action and alternative accounting practices

“…The use of accounts in the Deltan oil conflicts to problematize and make visible unsustainable practices locally and to those with power to resolve these problems appears to be similar to prior studies (Apostol, 2015;Thomson et al, 2015;Vinnari and Laine, 2017). In these studies, alternative accounting practices formed part of wider activist practices to ensure social and environmental justice was achieved for affected communities (Frankental, 2011;Joutsenvirta, 2011;Tregidga, 2017) by creating opportunities for transformative engagements with and on behalf of oppressed groups (see Cooper et al, 2005;Denedo et al, 2017Denedo et al, , 2018. Our study allows us to contribute to prior research on the impact of accounting on oppressed communities through presenting evidence from those producing the accounts and from representatives of the communities directly affected by oil and gas production.…”

“…Nine interviewees were purposively selected after an initial documentary analysis (see Denedo et al, 2017) to understand the context and to identify the key players within this Delta arena, whilst the remaining seven participants were contacted through a snowballing approach. Our sample was restricted due to problems with accessing key individuals in the largely rural communities in the Niger Delta.…”

“…" (laNGOr6) Despite the significant economic contribution of the oil and gas sector to the gross national income in Nigeria, the abject poverty, ecological damage, armed oppression, unacceptable levels of avoidable diseases, human rights abuse and social inequity to those living in the main oil-producing area (Niger Delta) is well documented (e.g. Okonta and Douglas, 2003;UNEP, 2011;Osaghae, 2008;Denedo et al, 2017Denedo et al, , 2018). These problems led many to accuse Shell and the Nigerian government of waging an ecological war and genocide on indigenous communities (Okonta and Douglas, 2003).…”

“…In this study, we analyse this evidence using themes from the theory of dialogic action to answer the question why local NGOs and communities consider co-produced accounts to be useful in their campaigns and evaluate their potential for other conflict arenas (e.g. Freire, 2002;Denedo et al, 2017;Laine and Vinnari, 2017;Russell et al, 2017;Tregidga, 2017). This paper proceeds as follows.…”

Persuasive language of responsible organisation? A critical discourse analysis of corporate social responsibility (CSR) reports of Nigerian oil companies

“…In January 2013 Shell was legally held liable for oil pollution in Nigeria (Hennchen, 2014). In addition, wider stakeholders (specifically the communities in Niger Delta) have routinely accused Nigerian oil and gas companies of unacceptable CSR practice including using CSRRs to legitimise their operations (Denedo, Thomson, & Yonekura, 2017;Egbon, Idemudia, & Amaeshi, 2018;Ogiri, Samy, & Bampton, 2012). Particularly, Emeseh and Songi (2014) commented that IOCs in Nigeria ''… routinely publish glowing reports on their activities …'', which are not easy to verify ''owing to lack of reliable data or information from regulatory agencies' ' (p. 137).…”