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Item Absentee State, Dismissive Peasants:Interrogating State-Rural Community Relations in Nigeria(International Journal Of Social Work and Development Studies (IJSDS), 0000) Adegbenga Isaac Aladegbola; Olaniyan Azeez O; Odewusi Oluwasola MThis study explores the pattern, nature, and outcomes of the relationship between the Nigerian state and its rural communities. The central argument of this work is that factors shaping the interaction between the Nigerian state and the rural communities are in the realm of two interrelated perceptions: absenteeism and dismissal. Using the rural communities in Ekiti Southwest Local Government Area of Nigeria as case studies and employing an ethnographic, qualitative research method, the study interrogates the absentee-dismissive conundrum of state-local community relations in Nigeria. Fieldwork was conducted between 2020 and 2021 across the villages and hamlets of Ogotun Ekiti, drawing on twenty key-informant and in-depth interviews with village inhabitants, community leaders, and government officials, supplemented by direct observation. Specifically, the study discovered that with a state presence that is at best sporadic and minimal in substance, the Nigerian state is perceived by rural dwellers as habitually absent, and this perceived errant behavior has resulted in a dismissive attitude towards the state. The study further engages Goran Hyden’s thesis of the uncaptured African peasantry, which attributes rural underdevelopment in Tanzania to peasants’ refusal to be captured by the modern economy, and finds that the Nigerian case differs: no modernizing project was ever extended to the rural populace under study, so their dismissiveness functions not as a cause of underdevelopment but as a coping mechanism for surviving it. While state absenteeism deepens underdevelopment, dismissive attitude serves some psychological purposes, and acts as a coping mechanism for the rural populace. The study concludes that so long the Nigerian state continues to neglect the rural majority in planning and execution of policy, rural communities will continue to display dismissive attitudes toward it, complicating efforts to mobilize them for nationhood and development.Item PAD 319 2020/2021(Crawford university, 2020) Crawford UniversityHarmattan Examination. 2020/2021 Session. Course Title: Institutional Analyses Course Code: PAD 319Item PAD/PSR 316 2020/2021(Crawford university, 2020) Crawford University2020/2021 Rain Semester Examinations Course Title: Nigerian Local Government Course Code: PAD 334/ PSR 316Item PAD/PSR 316 2022/2023(Crawford university, 2022) Crawford University2022/2023 Rain Semester Examinations Course Title: Nigerian Local Government Course Code: PAD 334/ PSR 316Item PSR 202 2015/2016(Crawford university, 2015) Crawford UniversityRain Semester Examination. 2015/2016 Session. Course Title: Introduction to the Nigerian Government & Politics Course Code: PSR 202Item PSR 202 2020/2021(Crawford university, 2020) Crawford UniversityRain Semester Examination. 2020/2021 Session. Course Title: Nigeria Government and Politics 11 Course Code: PSR 202Item PSR 204 2015/2016(Crawford university, 2015) Crawford UniversityRain Semester Examination 2015/2016 Session Couse Title: Introduction to Political Analysis Course Code: PSR 204Item PSR 204 2022/2023(Crawford university, 2022) Crawford UniversityRain Semester Examination 2022/23 Session Couse Title: Introduction to Political Analysis Course Code: PSR 204Item PSR 208 2015/2016(Crawford university, 2015) Crawford UniversityRain Examination 2015/2016 Session Course Code: PSR 208 Course Title: New States in World PoliticsItem PSR 208 2022/2023(Crawford university, 2022) Crawford UniversityRain Examination 2022/2023 Session Course Code: PSR 208 Course Title: New States in World PoliticsItem PSR 210 2016(Crawford university, 2016) Crawford UniversityRain Examination 2016 Course Code: PSR 210 Course Title: Introduction to Local GovernmentItem PSR 301 2019/2020(Crawford university, 2019) Crawford UniversityUniversity Examinations 2019/2020 Session Harmattan Semester Course Title: Logic and Methods of Political Enquiry Course Code: PSR 301Item PSR 301 2020/2021(Crawford university, 2020) Crawford UniversityUniversity Examinations 2020/2021 Session Harmattan Semester Course Title: Logic and Methods of Political Enquiry Course Code: PSR 301Item PSR 302 2010/2011(Crawford university, 2010) Crawford UniversityRain Semester Examination 2010/2011 Course Title: Diplomacy Course Code: PSR 302Item PSR 302 2015/2016(Crawford university, 2015) Crawford UniversityRain Semester Examination 2015/2016 Course Title: Diplomacy Course Code: PSR 302Item PSR 302 2016/2017(Crawford university, 2016) Crawford UniversityRain Semester Examination 2016/2017 Course Title: Diplomacy Course Code: PSR 302Item PSR 302 2018/2019(Crawford university, 2018) Crawford UniversityRain Semester Examination 2018/2019 Session Course Code: PSR 302 Course Title: DiplomacyItem PSR 302 2020/2021(Crawford university, 2020) Crawford UniversityRain Semester Examination 2020/2021 Course Title: Diplomacy Course Code: PSR 302Item PSR 302 2021/2022(Crawford university, 2021) Crawford UniversityRain Semester Examination 2021/2022 Course Title: Diplomacy Course Code: PSR 302Item PSR 302 2021/2022(Crawford university, 2021) Crawford UniversityRain Semester Examination 2021/2022 Session Course Code: PSR 302 Course Title: Diplomacy