Capitalist Accumulation and Socio-Ecological Resilience: Black People in Border Areas of Colombia and Ecuador and the Palm Oil Industry

The author explores the history of plundering carried out by national and international companies in the region of Tumaco-San Lorenzo at the border between Colombia and Ecuador. She shows that the current oil palm agribusiness is just a new face of a process that began centuries ago and exposes its imperialist character.

Edna Yiced Martínez earned her PhD in sociology at the Free University of Berlin, Germany. Her main research interests are political economy, history, feminist and gender studies, Marxism, ethnicities, racism and social movements.