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Blanes, Ruy Llera & Rodrigues, Ana Carolina (2023). Locating Conflict in New Extractivist Developments in Mozambique. AFREXTRACT Conference: Lived Experiences of Environmental Change in African Localities of Resource Extraction.

R. J. Blanes and A. C. Rodrigues,  "Locating Conflict in New Extractivist Developments in Mozambique", in AFREXTRACT Conf.: Lived Experiences of Environmental Change in African Localities of Resource Extraction, Pretoria, 2023

@misc{blanes2023_1766520396800,
	author = "Blanes, Ruy Llera and Rodrigues, Ana Carolina",
	title = "Locating Conflict in New Extractivist Developments in Mozambique",
	year = "2023"
}

TY  - CPAPER
TI  - Locating Conflict in New Extractivist Developments in Mozambique
T2  - AFREXTRACT Conference: Lived Experiences of Environmental Change in African Localities of Resource Extraction
AU  - Blanes, Ruy Llera
AU  - Rodrigues, Ana Carolina
PY  - 2023
CY  - Pretoria
AB  - In this paper we share recent research experiences on livelihoods in the framework of
largescale extractivist projects in Northern and Central Mozambique. Namely, we will focus on
the burgeoning LNG industry and the local (environmental, social, political) impacts of its
infrastructural development in the provinces of Cabo Delgado and Sofala, exploring to what
extent this new extractivist form poses continuities or discontinuities vis-à-vis older mining
histories in both regions. Specifically, we will offer two case studies – the implantation of the
logistics base in Pemba, Cabo Delgado, and the prospect of a new gas industry taking off in
Buzi, a costal district of Sofala, particularly known for its vulnerability to cyclones and floods in
the context of climate change – to debate the ‘genre’ and ‘location’ of conflicts (land-based,
environmental justice-based) and the wide range of developmental expectations that have
emerged and what kind of social and political mobilizations they have spurred. Together, we
propose to look at expectations and conflict as political expressions of a wanting
developmentalism that gravitates around top-down assemblages and conglomerates in
Mozambique. As those projects disseminate expectations to leverage their social acceptance,
they also follow a trail of extractive conglomerates operating in colonial and post-colonial
Mozambique. In Buzi, for example, the imminent consolidation of the gas industry allows
people to ignore the post-cyclone destruction and revive the ‘beautiful village’ where
‘everyone had a job’ as in the times of the colonial, later state-owned, Companhia do Buzi.
ER  -