by Charmaine Pereira
Abstract
This article highlights the significance of imperial relations in shaping competing transnational interests in Africa as a site for land and natural resource extraction. Accounts of China leading the scramble for land and other natural resources in African countries obscure the dominance of the US and European countries in such extraction. Extractivist engagements by three of the principal countries in the original BRICS grouping – China, India, and Russia – should be viewed against this backdrop.The analysis points to varying manifestations of violence, often sexualised, that women experience amid the immiseration and displacement that all community members face as a result of extractivist activities. Feminist initiatives against such relations strive to expose and undo the confluence of extractivism and militarisation in the structuring of such violence.The revisioning of the role of the state that such a shift requires is integral to transnational and regional feminist struggles for gender justice.
Keywords: extractivism; militarisation; violence; feminist struggles.
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