Territorial Impacts of Ecuadorian Shrimp Exports to China

This chapter aims to discuss the territorial impact of the Ecuadorian shrimp value chain aimed at the Chinese market. To achieve this, we introduce a multiscale approach, with a particular emphasis on the impacts that materialize at the territory-body scale. From this perspective, we propose discussing the relevance of place and locality as privileged sites for empirically visualizing the impacts of the global geoeconomy. At the same time, it suggests observing territories as socio-political constructs and bodies as the ultimate space of state sovereignty (Agamben 1998). It is here, in these extraction territories, that one can see, in their raw form, the impacts of the global geoeconomy characterized by relations of ecological imperialism (Foster and Clark 2020).