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'Latent' surplus populations and colonial histories of drought, groundnuts, and finance in Senegal

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Bernards, Nick (2021) 'Latent' surplus populations and colonial histories of drought, groundnuts, and finance in Senegal. Geoforum, 126 . pp. 441-450. doi:10.1016/j.geoforum.2019.10.007 ISSN 0016-7185.

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Abstract

Amidst growing concern about the displacement of rural populations exposed to climate change, new financial instruments are increasingly being presented as key tools for the management of climate risks. Index-based agricultural insurance (IBAI) is a particularly key example. Recent critical work has pointed to the deeply neoliberal character of IBAI and like interventions. However, the promotion of new financial instruments in response to crises of agrarian production has a much longer history in Africa and elsewhere. This article draws on Marx’s concept of ‘latent’ surplus populations to trace out and explain parallels between IBAI and colonial interventions in Senegal’s groundnut basin. Approaching the question in this way, the article highlights the long-run historical co-production and interdependence of the Senegalese state and a political ecology of groundnut production in which relations of indebtedness and the exposure to variable rainfall of a fragile relative surplus population has often been crucial to the mobilization of cheap labour for groundnut production. IBAI is thus positioned as part of a recurrent trajectory of emergency financial interventions aimed at smoothing out the contradictions implicit in this socio-ecological configuration.

Item Type: Journal Article
Subjects: H Social Sciences > HB Economic Theory
Divisions: Faculty of Arts > School for Cross-faculty Studies > Global Sustainable Development
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): Population geography -- Senegal, Rural development -- Senegal, Peanut industry -- Senegal, Land use -- Environmental aspects -- Senegal, Agriculture -- Economic aspects -- Senegal, Agricultural insurance -- Senegal
Journal or Publication Title: Geoforum
Publisher: Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd.
ISSN: 0016-7185
Official Date: November 2021
Dates:
DateEvent
November 2021Published
17 October 2019Available
7 October 2019Accepted
Volume: 126
Page Range: pp. 441-450
DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2019.10.007
Status: Peer Reviewed
Publication Status: Published
Access rights to Published version: Restricted or Subscription Access
Date of first compliant deposit: 10 October 2019
Date of first compliant Open Access: 17 October 2021
RIOXX Funder/Project Grant:
Project/Grant IDRIOXX Funder NameFunder ID
756-2016-0297Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canadahttp://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100000155
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