China: South-South cooperation and land grabbing. An analysis from social resistances to Xai-Xai project in Mozambique
Journal Title: Conjuntura Austral: journal of the Global South - Year 2016, Vol 7, Issue 35
Abstract
This article investigates the way social resistances reveals the links between China’s South-South cooperation and land grabbing. With that aim, a case study of Xai-Xai project in Mozambique is done. From a neogramscian perspective, it is argue that social resistances demonstrates that China’s South-South cooperation in Xai-Xai project is a discourse which legitimizes land grabbing to guarantee its domestic food safety.
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Sol Mora
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