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Enter the dragon: the ecological disorganisation of Chinese capital in Africa

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Abstract

This article draws on the theory and recent research on ‘ecological disorganization’- defined as ‘the ways in which human preferences for organizing economic production consistent with the objectives of capitalism are an inherent contradiction with the health of the ecological system’- to explore the ‘corporate violence’ apropos of Chinese investment in Africa. In line with other ecological disorganization theorists, we show how the deployment of Chinese capital in Africa structures and reproduces subjectivation, but also how, ultimately, this subjectivation is implicated in Africa’s ecological disorganization.

Acceptance Date May 26, 2016
Publication Date Apr 28, 2017
Publicly Available Date Mar 29, 2024
Journal Third World Research
Print ISSN 0957-8811
Publisher Palgrave Macmillan
Pages 2082-2096
DOI https://doi.org/10.1080/01436597.2017.1315299
Keywords Capital, ecological disorganisation, China, Africa, treadmill of production, neoliberalism, debt
Publisher URL http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01436597.2017.1315299

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