Wealth & Space - Contested geographies of wealth (re-)production in Latin America

WEALTH & SPACE will advance the field of wealth research by conducting an analysis of how processes of wealth accumulation use, transform and co-produce land, natural resources, infrastructure, urban-rural relations and other spatial entanglements. By producing insights from and into Latin America, it is the first project that will develop theoretical and empirical understandings of how the (re-)production of wealth and space is mutually co-constitutive.
Particularly, it draws on the rich Latin American traditions of spatial theorisation on wealth (re-)production, from classical dependency theory to (neo-)extractivism, green grabbing, and the racialisation and feminisation of economic exploitation.