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Title: | The Political Economy of Mauritania: Imperialism and Class Struggle |
Author: | Bennoune, Mahfoud |
Year: | 1978 |
Periodical: | Review of African Political Economy |
Volume: | 5 |
Issue: | 12 |
Period: | May-August |
Pages: | 31-52 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Mauritania |
Subjects: | economic conditions economic dependence Economics and Trade Politics and Government colonialism international relations |
External link: | https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/03056247808703359 |
Abstract: | This article explores the way that colonial exploitation conditioned the political, social and economic life of Mauritanian rural and urban communities. It shows how a neocolonial State was formed for the specific purpose not only of continuing colonial plunder under a new institutional arrangement but of intensifying the exploitation of Mauritanian workers for the benefit of multinational corporations, with far-reaching and even tragic socioeconomic consequences for the majority of the Mauritanian people. A first section analyses the characteristic features of the indigenous precolonial social formation which was composed of at least two distinct modes of production: pastoral nomadism and sedentary agriculture articulated by trade. The second delineates the socioeconomic changes brought about by the penetration of capitalist social relations of production under a colonial form. The third section, the main focus, analyses the emergence and development of a neocolonial State. Bibliogr., notes. |