ZEF CPC Colloquium: The cocoa society in Ecuador
This research examines what I call the cocoa society in Molleturo, a rural parish in the Azuay province of southern Ecuador, as a specific socio-spatial formation produced by the encounter between a peasant territory and global cocoa capital. Rather than treating cocoa as simply a crop or a source of income, it reads cocoa production as a process of socio-spatial transformation: one that reshapes who controls the land, who can reproduce their life within it, and what alternatives remain possible. Drawing on Latin American political ecology and critical geography, the research asks how cocoa is transforming the territory, who is shaping land access, loss, and accumulation, and how peasants navigate between agroextractivism and food sovereignty.
Time
Wednesday, 08.07.26 - 11:00 AM
- 12:00 PM
Topic
The cocoa society: territorial transformation, social crisis, and extractive dynamics in Molleturo, Cuenca, Ecuador.
Speaker
Juan Torres-Celi is a junior researcher at the Center for Development Research (ZEF), Cultural and Political Change Working Group.
Location
ZEF, Genscherallee 3, 53113 Bonn and zoom (see link below)
Room
Room 3.032
Reservation
not required
Additional Information
Organizer
ZEF's Research Group on Cultural and Political Change (ZEF CPC)
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