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- Title
Socionatures, Space, and Decolonisation: Amílcar Cabral's Praxis of Dialectics.
- Authors
deGrassi, Aharon
- Abstract
The agronomic writings of influential theorist and independence leader Amílcar Cabral contain a hitherto underappreciated dialectical approach that is environmental, nonreductive, spatialised, nonteleological, and anticolonial, with significance for geographies that are simultaneously critical, physical, Southern, Black, African, and decolonial. Cabral's interests in socionatures—and especially colonialism and the state—emerged from childhood in colonial Cabo Verde. His undergraduate thesis examines dialectics of soil erosion and agrarian structures in Portugal, amidst his politicisation and anti‐colonial networking. He developed his dialectical approach spatially as he conducted Guinea‐Bissau's agricultural census and advanced beyond methodological nationalism and evolutionary stagism by emphasising colonial connections (colonial state mechanisation and export crops in African agrarian systems). These insights and concerns shaped and were shaped by his work on warehouses, Angolan plantations, and broader post‐1960 liberation struggles to suggest that a rural guerrilla strategy was possible and necessary in Guinea through dialectical engagements with diverse peasantries and international support.
- Subjects
PRAXIS (Process); DIALECTIC; COLONIES; DECOLONIZATION; SOIL erosion; PEASANTS
- Publication
Antipode, 2023, Vol 55, Issue 5, p1560
- ISSN
0066-4812
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/anti.12934