Interrogating the logic of accumulation in the sugar sector in Southern Africa

Abstract

Introduction to regional patterns of sugar production accumulation by way of data analysis for key (formerly ‘South African’) firm Illovo across 6 countries  ‘Centrifugal’ logic throws-up a diversity of routes of accumulation, and different broad political compacts, despite focusing on a single company, (monolithic?) commodity and region  Detailed case studies to provided by SSRN in special issue of Journal of Southern African Studies