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Commodity Frontiers Initiative
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Exploring the history and present of capitalism, contestation, and ecological transformation in the global countryside. We publish an open access journal twice a year. Read it on www.commodityfrontiers.com
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Commodity Frontiers Initiative @commodityfrontiers.bsky.social · 14d
New article from Marjolijn Dijkman and Oliver Ressler.

‘We need to understand that the main appeal of CCS
for the fossil industries lies in the huge new subsidies
it promises the industry.'

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Oliver Ressler, “Carbon and Captivity”, 4K video, 33 min., 2020. Courtesy of the artist; 
àngels, Barcelona; The Gallery Apart, Rome © Bildrecht, Vienna. https://www.ressler.at/carbon_and_captivity/
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Commodity Frontiers Initiative @commodityfrontiers.bsky.social · 21d
New article from Pepe Roswaldy.

'To what degree do carbon trading and offsetting serve as a form of externalization [where] plantation workers will become the ones held responsible for the Global North’s (...) carbon emissions?'

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Harvesting of oil palm fruits. Photo provided by the author.
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Commodity Frontiers Initiative @commodityfrontiers.bsky.social · 28d
New article from Evelyne Owino.

'The carbon project poses the risk of dispossession of pastoralists from their ancestral lands, amplifying resource competition by creating scarcity in fragile ecologies...'

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Figure 1: Map of NRT Carbon project area within Laikipia, Samburu, Isiolo and Marsabit Counties in Northern Kenya. modified from (Owino et al., forthcoming)
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Commodity Frontiers Initiative @commodityfrontiers.bsky.social · Sep 3
New article from Mehra Gharibian and Jose Cruz.

'...as in other commodity frontiers, the relationship between teacher and student is imbued with the capitalist /settler context within which they live, learn, and work.'

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Photo by Mehra Gharibian: Fields of Tulare, CA.
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Commodity Frontiers Initiative @commodityfrontiers.bsky.social · Jul 23
New article from Julia Loginova.

‘As Curley argues, carbon sovereignty as a practice is shaped by Indigenous nations asserting control over their carbon resources in the face of colonial and capitalist pressures [...].’

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Commodity Frontiers Initiative @commodityfrontiers.bsky.social · Jul 16
New article from Tomás Bartoletti, Samuël Coghe and Victor Seow.

‘[T]echnocracy operates […] as an ideology that not only describes the system itself, but also the sets of ideas that animate the emergence of the system.’

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Image titled, in English, “Grand Sight of the Open Working Fushun Colliery. ” In the Japanese text below, there is an additional phrase, “limitless treasure house”, which appeals to the then widely held notion that Fushun’s coal resources were so bountiful as to be essentially inexhaustible. This image comes from a postcard that dates to the early 1930s. [Postcard from the author's collection.]
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Commodity Frontiers Initiative @commodityfrontiers.bsky.social · Jul 9
New article from Sayako Kanda.

‘Using diverse fuels, whether fossil or otherwise, can [...] be viewed as India’s long-term reaction to saving scarce fuel resources and mitigating fuel shortages.’

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Source: Notes on the Manufacture of Salt in the Tamluk Agency by H.C. Hamilton, Salt Agent, September 23, 1852, Appendix B, British Parliamentary Papers, vol. 26, 1856.
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Commodity Frontiers Initiative @commodityfrontiers.bsky.social · Jun 25
New article from Hiroki Shin and Simon Jackson.

‘Where geographers and anthropologists have discussed the spatial dimensions of colonial extraction, historians can shed new light on temporal aspects.’ (edited for brevity)

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Kaymoor Coal Mine, South side of New River, upstream of New River Gorge Bridge, Fayetteville, Fayette County, WV. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C.
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Commodity Frontiers Initiative @commodityfrontiers.bsky.social · May 30
Join us 19 June from 10-11.30pm CEST for a discussion with Sunil Amrith on his book, "The Burning Earth" followed by commentaries from Hendro Sangkoyo and Marina Bedran, and a general discussion.

knaw-nl.zoom.us/j/8862454782...
Meeting-ID: 886 2454 7823
Password: 339393
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Commodity Frontiers Initiative @commodityfrontiers.bsky.social · May 30
Issue 7 of Commodity Frontiers is live on our new website! Contributors explore carbon frontiers through power, conflict, and sovereignty. journal.commodityfrontiers.com/journal-issu...
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