Based on critical theory and ethnographic research, this book explores how intensifying geographies of extractive capitalism shapes human lives and transformative politics in marginal areas of the global economy.

Gediminas Lesutis is a Research Associate at the University of Cambridge and a Research Fellow at Darwin College, the United Kingdom, and an incoming Marie Curie Research Fellow at the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands. His research is in the areas of political geography and global political economy, particularly in regard to everyday life, dispossession, extractivism, mega-infrastructures, bio- and necro-political power, and the politics of development across Sub-Saharan Africa. Gediminas has published peer-reviewed research articles in African Affairs, Geoforum, Political Geography, Urban Geography, Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, and others.

Introduction 1 Theorising pecarity: Space, violence, politics 2 Colonial, postcolonial, neoliberal precarisation 3 Spaces of structural violence: Precarity as exclusion 4 Spaces of symbolic violence: Precarity as inclusion 5 Spaces of coping: Precarity as abandonment Conclusion Bibliography Index