The resource enclave treats extractable territory as imaginatively severed from its own nation

Evidence

From a literary perspective, the idea of the resource enclave achieves a special resonance, for it depends on a profound act of imaginative disconnection. French foreign policy makers, for example, would sometimes divide Africa into Afrique utile and Afrique unitile, the gulf between the useful and the useless bits corresponding largely to those enclaves with exploitable resources that could be profitably incorporated into metropolitan capitalist structures and the unincorporated, disposable remainder. … Such an enclave mindset is inseparable from another form of imaginative dissociation, namely, rent-seeking behavior, attempts to maximize the often immense chasm between the market value of a resource and the costs of its extraction. Economic rent effects a rending gap in the social fabric, as mining transnationals and collaborative local elites treat a nation’s “natural” bounty as if it were neither of nor for the nation, but exists as a kind of extraterritorial gravy train. — Rob Nixon, Slow Violence and the Environmentalism…, 194

Categorization

• DEFINE: Clear crystallizing definitions of ‘resource enclave’ and ‘rent-seeking’ paired with the imaginative-disconnection mechanism central to the book.
• XREF: Connects to Nixon’s method of imaginative dissociation and to the land/place and colonial strands of the polyad. — connects to: Enclave economies centered on resource extraction become privileged spaces of war — Achille Mbembe, Necropolitics, 134; Colonialism systematically dispossesses the colonized of resources under a justifying discourse of hierarchy — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection: How Data Is…, 246; Totalitarian world conquest logically abolishes the distinction between homeland and conquered territory — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 933

Broader Connections

• Enclave economies centered on resource extraction become privileged spaces of war #expands (0.78) — Achille Mbembe, Necropolitics, 134
• Colonialism systematically dispossesses the colonized of resources under a justifying discourse of hierarchy #exemplifies (0.75) — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection, 246
• Totalitarian world conquest logically abolishes the distinction between homeland and conquered territory #expands (0.72) — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 933