Project description
Relational analytics maps exploitation across Amazon and Congo frontiers
Exploitation in the Amazon and Congo frontiers persists across generations, sustained by economic, historical and institutional forces that are rarely examined together. With the support of the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions programme, the Beyond Extraction project aims to develop a relational framework linking historical origins, lived experience, financial flows and legal-discursive structures that legitimise harm. Using archival research, ethnography, governance analysis and supply chain tracing across two tri-border regions, the project will work to produce an open-access relational atlas of exploitation and a policy toolkit (including for communities) co-designed with Indigenous and civil society partners. Findings will inform due diligence and accountability debates within EU and United Nations institutions.
Objective
Beyond Extraction investigates how exploitation in the Amazon and Congo frontiers is produced, legitimised, and endured across time and scale. Moving beyond economic-only views, the project develops a relational analytics that links historical genealogies, lived experiences, material/financial circuits, and discursive–institutional architectures. Comparative work in two tri-border regions underpins two flagship outputs: a Relational Atlas of Exploitation—an open-access, network-based resource making patterns of harm and accountability legible—and a cross-regional policy and practice package (synthesis brief plus community-oriented toolkit).
Five objectives structure the research: 1) reconstruct the historical, structural conditions that make exploitation durable; 2) ground these genealogies in lived and intergenerational experiences; 3) map material and financial circuits that connect situated harms to distant beneficiaries; 4) analyse the discursive and legal mechanisms that normalise or contest harm; and 5) identify leverage points for justice-oriented governance transformation.
Methodologically, the project integrates archival and documentary research, ethnography and oral histories, governance and legal analysis, supply-chain/ownership tracing, and comparative synthesis. Iterative integration combines qualitative insight with structured mapping and networked representations. Partnerships with Indigenous federations, civil society, and IGOs ensure FPIC, GDPR-aligned data protection, and co-production protocols; open-science practices guide the dissemination of non-sensitive outputs.
Impact pathways span science, society, and policy. Scientific contributions include a comparative, cross-continental framework and two open-access publications. Societal impacts centre community agency through the toolkit and accessible storytelling. Policy impacts include a multilingual synthesis brief and the Atlas to support due diligence and accountability debates in EU/UN fora.
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HORIZON.1.2 - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)
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