Esther Egele-Godswill
Job Title
Tutor and PhD student
Room number
1.09Building (Address)
27 George SquareCity (Address)
EdinburghCountry (Address)
UKResearch interests
Research interests
African History and Diplomacy, Gender and Political Violence, Anthropology of infrastructure, Anthropology of Oil, Technology and Material Culture, Informal Economy, Political Economy, Extractive Industry, Bureaucracy.
My PhD research examines how the physicality and sociomaterial practices around material infrastructure, particularly oil pipelines shifts and changes everyday socioeconomic, political and cultural life.
Supervisors
Dr Akin Iwilade and Dr Sam Spiegel
Selected Publications
Egele-Godswill, E., & Barse, M. (Hosts). (2023, July 7). Who is Stealing Nigeria’s Oil [Audio podcast episode]. https://www.diis.dk/en/research/who-is-stealing-nigeria-oil
Onyeka, H., Anumudu, C., Al-Sharify, Z., Egele-Godswill, E., (2021), COVID-19 Pandemic: A review of global lockdown and its far-reaching effects, Science Progress, 104:2, https://doi:org/10.1177/00368504211019854
Egele-Godswill, E. (2021), Book Review, Political Violence and Oil in Africa: The case of Nigeria: By Zainab Ladan Mai-Bornu, The Journal of Development Studies, 58(3), 635-637, https://doi.org/10.1080/00220388.2021.1993610
Conference Presentations
‘Pipeline Disruptions and Surveillance Contracting in Nigeria’s Oil Governance and Security’, Conference on Natural Resource Management and Conflict in Nigeria, Danish Institute for International International Studies (DIIS), Copenhagen, 26-28 June 2023.
‘Precarious Pipescape: Youths and the Everyday Life of Crude Oil Cooking in Nigeria’s Niger Delta, The 9th European Conference on African Studies (ECAS), African Futures, University of Cologne, 31 May-3 June, 2023.
Background
My background is BA (Hon’s) History and Diplomacy at the Niger Delta University, Nigeria; MA International Relations (Terrorism and Political Violence) at the University of Birmingham. Prior to my doctoral research, I was a teaching assistant at the Department of History and International Relations, Federal University Otuoke, Nigeria. I taught undergraduate courses in African History and Non-state actors in International Relations. I am also a tutor at the School of Social and Political Science. In this role, I have worked with course organisers and provided teaching, inclusive discussions and feedback for undergraduate students taking courses on International development, aid and humanitarianism, and understanding race and colonialism.