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

Mwenda Kailemia

Third World Quarterly, 2017, vol. 38, issue 9, 2082-2096

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.

Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1080/01436597.2017.1315299

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