Extraction offshore, politics inshore, and the role of the state in equatorial Guinea
Author
Campos Serrano, AliciaEntity
UAM. Departamento de Antropología Social y Pensamiento FilosóficoPublisher
Cambridge University PressDate
2013-05-01Citation
10.1017/S0001972013000065
Africa 83.2 (2013): 314 - 339
ISSN
0001-9720 (print); 1750-0184 (online)DOI
10.1017/S0001972013000065Editor's Version
https://doi.org/10.1017/S0001972013000065Subjects
Equatorial Guinea; political configuration; political economy; AntropologíaRights
© International African Institute 2013Abstract
Recent economic and socio-political dynamics in the territories that form Equatorial Guinea are related, in different ways, to the extraction of hydrocarbons from its Exclusive Economic Zone since the mid-1990s. These transformations are strongly mediated by specific social groups, especially the family that has held power since 1968 and transnational oil companies, whose relationships are central to the exclusive political configuration in the country. The article analyses this particular form of extraversion of power as part of a broader history of the region, in which the role of the state's sovereignty as articulated during decolonization is shown to be instrumental in the allocation of rights and the political economy of oil today. The article also discusses the spaces that the new political economy of oil has opened for alternative transnational connections around the country. Copyright © 2013 International African Institute.
Files in this item
Google Scholar:Campos Serrano, Alicia
This item appears in the following Collection(s)
Related items
Showing items related by title, author, creator and subject.