Enclave economies centered on resource extraction become privileged spaces of war

Evidence

Second, the controlled inflow and the fixing of movements of money around zones in which specific resources are extracted has made possible the formation of enclave economies and has shifted the old calculus between people and things. The concentration of activities connected with the extraction of valuable resources around these enclaves has, in return, turned the enclaves into privileged spaces of war and death. War itself is fed by increased sales of the products extracted. — Achille Mbembe, Necropolitics, 134

Categorization

• XREF: Resonates with necropolitics and biopolitics in the Scaffolding toolkit, and echoes resource-wars dynamics in Parable of the Sower’s world. — connects to: Core nations need peripheral resource extraction to prevent realisation crises — Fanny Pigeaud_ Ndongo Samba Sylla, Africa’s Last Colonial Currency, 13; Clumped scarce resources make guarding territories economically worthwhile — Emlen, Douglas J, Animal Weapons_ The Evolution of Battle, 202; The colonial resource grab morphed into a neoliberal regime that maintained extraction mechanisms — Fanny Pigeaud_ Ndongo Samba Sylla, Africa’s Last Colonial Currency, 28 (+5 more)
• ADDENDUM: Resource extraction enclaves as sites of violence parallels how the sacrifice essay treats ritual death at structural junctures of society.

Related

• Resource pooling across colonies was needed to justify acquisition costs. (similarity 0.82)
• The resource enclave treats extractable territory as imaginatively severed from its own nation (similarity 0.81)
• Core nations need peripheral resource extraction to prevent realisation crises (similarity 0.80)

Broader Connections

• Core nations need peripheral resource extraction to prevent realisation crises #expands (0.85) — Fanny Pigeaud_ Ndongo Samba Sylla, Africa’s Last Colonial Currency, 13
• Clumped scarce resources make guarding territories economically worthwhile #expands (0.80) — Emlen, Douglas J, Animal Weapons_ The Evolution of Battle, 202
• Clumped sparse resources make territorial fighting pay off reproductively #expands (0.80)
• The colonial resource grab morphed into a neoliberal regime that maintained extraction mechanisms #expands (0.78) — Fanny Pigeaud_ Ndongo Samba Sylla, Africa’s Last Colonial Currency, 28