The Political Ecology of Colonial Capitalism

The Political Ecology of Colonial Capitalism is Volume 1 of the Postcolonial International Studies series. This academic work within the politics and social sciences category examines the global land grab phenomenon following the financial crisis. It analyzes these events through the lens of the capitalist world system, focusing on how the co-production of race and nature provides the ecological surplus necessary for capitalist development.

Within the fields of politics and government and ideologies and doctrines, this book argues that racialized frontier appropriation is used to secure cheap food. The text explores how global primitive accumulation allows for the construction of unused nature in appropriation zones to resolve social-ecological contradictions. This volume provides a theoretical and historical framework to understand the intersection of colonial capitalism and modern neoliberal crises.