Accumulation by dispossession: mining sector in Mozambique: the coal mine case of Vale S.A. in Moatize

• Grant number: 13/03226-0
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Scientific Initiation
• Start date: May 01, 2013
• End date: April 04, 2014
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Geography - Human Geography
• Principal Investigator: Jose Gilberto de Souza
• Grantee: Ana Paula Saragossa
• Host Institution: Instituto de Geociências e Ciências Exatas (IGCE). Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP). Campus de Rio Claro. Rio Claro , SP, Brazil

Abstract

The processes of mineral exploration are an example of accumulation by dispossession that occurred in fragile states and dependent economically, socially, and institutionally. This process determines the territorial logic, collective ownership of land, and social organization of labor, these reflections are strongly experienced in African countries, particularly in Mozambique empirical basis of this research. The imprint of this research is to study these actions and geopolitical processes between the Mozambican and Brazilian states through company Vale SA and its coal mine in Moatize. (AU)