Camilla Houeland

• Houeland, Camilla (2018). Between the street and Aso Rock*: the role of Nigerian trade unions in popular protests. Journal of Contemporary African Studies.  ISSN 0258-9001.  36(1), s 103- 120 . doi: 10.1080/02589001.2017.1396297 Vis sammendrag

  The trade unions’ instrumental role in four decades of successful popular resistance against subsidy removals is widely recognised, but insufficiently understood due to inadequate consideration of the particularities of labour. The subsidy contestations are considered a barometer of Nigerian politics, and the 2012 subsidy protests – often referred as Occupy Nigeria – was one of the largest popular mobilisations in Nigerian history. Whereas unionists described the outcome as a successful demonstration of popular sovereignty, other protesters blamed the unions for unfulfilled democratic opportunities and for succumbing to bribery. With labour theoretical perspectives, this article critically examines the trade unions’ positions, actions and relations during those protests. The article demonstrates, in practice, not only how the unions’ capacities to mobilise, strike and negotiate, were instrumental to the reinstatement of the subsidy, but also how trade unions’ agency is both enabled and constrained by labour's multiple embeddedness in state, civil society and the market.

• Houeland, Camilla (2015). Casualisation and Conflict in the Niger Delta: Nigerian Oil Workers' Unions Between Companies and Communities. Revue Tiers Monde.  ISSN 1293-8882.  (224), s 25- 46 Vis sammendrag

  Though millions of Nigerians were protesting in the streets against the repeal of subsidies in January 2012, the government did not call for negotiations until the oil unions threatened to shut down oil production. However, production was never shut down, and the oil unions were criticised for “empty threats” and for abandoning their historical democratic role. To better understand the opportunities and constraints of Nigerian oil workers, this study explores how casualisation processes and conflict interlink and affect the local labour regime and the oil unions' powers in the Niger Delta. The labour fragmentations and erosions of labour power from casualisation have been exacerbated when unfolding into this context of conflictual and fragmented social relations. Despite the oil unions' strategic position in the oil industry and their relatively high union density, these processes have challenged both their structural and associational powers.

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• Braathen, Einar; Houeland, Camilla & Aasen, Berit (2018). Civil society under pressure - A synthesis study of evaluations of Civil Society Organisations’ democratisation and human rights work in Southern and Eastern Africa. Vis sammendrag

  I løpet av de siste 20 årene har sivilsamfunnsorganisasjoner (CSOs) som fremmer demokrati og menneskerettigheter opplevd et stadig mer restriktivt driftsmiljø over hele verden, fra juridiske begrensninger og fysisk vold til mer subtile former for trusler. Det sivile samfunn er under press.Denne synteseundersøkelsen presenterer funn om hvordan CSOer i Sør- og Øst-Afrika, spesielt i Etiopia, Uganda, Malawi, Mosambik og Zambia, oppfatter og møter disse endringene.Formålet med studien er å utnytte kunnskap fra eksisterende evalueringer for å informere utformingen av norsk politikk, strategi og innsats på området om CSOenes demokrati- og menneskerettighetsarbeid i det globale sør. Syntesestudien har til hensikt å gjenspeile et sørlig perspektiv på dette arbeidet.Studien har forsøkt å samle og systematisk presentere funn fra evalueringer og andre dokumenter som omhandler CSOers arbeid.

• Houeland, Camilla (2018). Public brainpower: civil society and natural resource management. Democratization.  ISSN 1351-0347. . doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/13510347.2018.1522303
• Houeland, Camilla (2017, 23. mars). Interview on the crisis in Nigeria.. [Radio].  NRK Dagsnytt atten.
• Houeland, Camilla (2017). Punching above their weight: Nigerian trade unions in the political economy of oil..
• Houeland, Camilla; Adetula, Victor & Sommerfelt, Tone (2017). En global utfordring. Dagens næringsliv.  ISSN 0803-9372.
• Sommerfelt, Tone; Houeland, Camilla & Adetula, Victor (2017). The crisis around Lake Chad. Africa Is A Country (Blog).
• Houeland, Camilla (2016). Ensidig framstilling 
av offerbildet i Nigeria. Vårt land.  ISSN 0805-5424.
• Houeland, Camilla (2016, 23. juli). Flykter fra kriserammet Nigeria.  Dagens Næringsliv.
• Houeland, Camilla (2016). Niger Delta; oil, dispossession and resistance (gues lecture).
• Houeland, Camilla (2016). Nigeria. Store Norske Leksikon (Nettutgaven).
• Houeland, Camilla (2016). Nigeria for dummies.
• Houeland, Camilla (2016). Oil, labour and the environment. A suggested case study from the Niger Delta.
• Houeland, Camilla (2016). Trade unions and development.
• Houeland, Camilla & Jacobs, Sean (2016). «Big man-syndromet». Dagsavisen.  ISSN 1503-2892.
• Houeland, Camilla & Jacobs, Sean (2016). The ‘Big Man’ Syndrome in Africa. Africa Is A Country (Blog).
• Houeland, Camilla (2015). Labor protests in Swaziland: when no news is not good news. Africa Is A Country (Blog).
• Houeland, Camilla (2015). Popular protest against fuel subsidy removal: Nigerian trade unions as mediator of a social contract.
• Houeland, Camilla (2015). Popular protest against fuel subsidy removal. Nigerian trade unions as protector of a social contract.
• Houeland, Camilla (2014, 14. februar). Afrika, protester. [Radio].  Radio Nova - Opplysningen.
• Houeland, Camilla (2014, 30. mai). Boko Haram. [Radio].  Radio Nova - Opplysningen.
• Houeland, Camilla (2014, 12. mai). Intervju om Nigeria/Boko Haram. [TV].  NRK (Aktuelt).
• Houeland, Camilla (2014, 14. mai). Nigeria – full av kontraster. [Radio].  NRK P2, Ekko.
• Houeland, Camilla (2014, 22. mai). Nigeria/Boko Haram. [Radio].  NRK P2, Nyhetslunsj.
• Houeland, Camilla (2014). Nigerian trade unions navigating in the political economy of oil: a case study of the 2012 fuel subsidy strike.
• Houeland, Camilla (2014). How do we judge Nigeria’s Abiola family? New documentary film on the history of Nigeria democracy movement. Africa Is A Country (Blog).
• Houeland, Camilla & Bjørkhaug, Ingunn (2014). Ebola-epidemiens lokale helter. Dagsavisen - Nye Meninger.
• Houeland, Camilla (2013). Bistand - en snapshot historie og framtidsrefleksjoner.
• Houeland, Camilla (2013). Bistand: Virker det?.
• Houeland, Camilla (2013). Hva vil skje etter Mandela?. Dagsavisen.  ISSN 1503-2892.
• Houeland, Camilla (2013). Nigeria, I: Sigrun Johnstad (red.),  Afrikas 99%. Økonomisk vekst, ulikhet og protest.  Fellesrådet for Afrika og Solidaritet Forlag.  ISBN 9788291916309.  Landprofil.  s 182 - 183
• Houeland, Camilla (red.) (2013). Nigeria: Online leksikon-artikkel.
• Houeland, Camilla (2013). Protester mot avvikling av bensinsubsidier: Regimemotstand eller institusjonalisert politikk?.

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