Maura Benegiamo

Land, Capital and Extractive Frontiers (eBook, ePUB)

Social Conflict and Ecological Crisis in the Senegal River Delta

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book examines 'land grabbing' - its colonial roots and the fraught relationship between capital and nature amidst the current ecological crisis.

Through ethnographic and archival research, Maura Benegiamo investigates an Italian company's acquisition of 20,000 hectares in Senegal's River Delta for agrofuel production and delves into the struggles of pastoral communities affected by the project. Through this landmark case, the book shows how European energy and global food security policies are reshaping rural spaces, expanding agrarian extractivism in sub-Saharan Africa.

By shedding light on how contemporary capital-nature relationships perpetuate socio-ecological crises and colonial models, the book highlights the enduring forms of opposition to these processes. At the heart of these struggles lies a crucial question: how can we understand today's crises while reclaiming alternative ways of living, producing, and inhabiting the land?

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bristol University Press
• Seitenzahl: 152
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. April 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781529237832
• Artikelnr.: 72257303

Autorenporträt

Maura Benegiamo is an associate researcher in economic and labour sociology at the University of Pisa. She has conducted research and consultant activities across Europe, Sub-Saharan Africa, and Central America, focusing on environmental conflicts, natural resource extraction, and agrarian development. Her work has been published in various international scientific journals, and she is the creator of the documentary Progreso7, which documents resistance movements against large-scale mining in Guatemala.