Résumés
Abstract
A great deal of research has documented how extractive resources are governed once their exploitation has begun, how transnational actors and factors play a role in extractive industries, and how states stick to a path of dependency towards fossil fuel exploitation. However, most of this previous research has not taken sufficiently seriously domestic politics. Furthermore, there has been little work on how dependency is constructed before exploiting these resources. This article fills that gap by showing how oil exploitation has been constructed as an economic imperative in Uganda. Building on a research design with a broad range of empirical fingerprints, this article shows that construction of oil as an economic imperative in Uganda is based on two processes: 1) embedding the meso level within the macro level through a long-term horizon; and 2) rendering the contingent necessary through a combination of material and immaterial strategies of state political control.
Keywords:
- natural resources,
- extractive industries,
- oil,
- Uganda,
- political economy,
- public policy
Résumé
De nombreuses recherches documentent comment des ressources extractives sont gouvernées une fois que leur exploitation a commencé, la manière dont les acteurs et les facteurs transnationaux jouent un rôle dans les industries extractives et comment des États maintiennent une dépendance vis-à-vis de l’exploitation de ressources fossiles. Cependant, la plupart des recherches antérieures ne prennent pas suffisamment au sérieux les dynamiques politiques nationales internes tandis qu’il existe peu de travaux sur la façon dont la dépendance mentionnée est construite avant l’exploitation de ces ressources. A partir d’une stratégie de recherche mobilisant un large éventail d’empreintes empiriques, dont certaines ont été collectées au cours de trois terrains de recherche en Ouganda, cet article montre que la construction de l’exploitation pétrolière en tant qu’impératif économique en Ouganda est basée sur deux processus : 1) l’intégration du niveau méso dans le niveau macro par le biais d’un horizon à long terme ; 2) la conversion du contingent en nécessaire par le biais d’une combinaison de stratégies matérielles et immatérielles de contrôle politique étatique
Mots-clés :
- Ressources naturelles,
- pétrole,
- Ouganda,
- économie politique,
- politiques publiques
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