RHN 124/2020 | Publication
Commodity Frontiers is the Journal of the Commodity Frontiers Initiative (CFI).
Edited by a group of scholars and researchers from various disciplines and organizations in the CFI Network, Commodity Frontiers explores the history and present of capitalism, contestation, and ecological transformation in the global countryside. Each themed issue includes articles and interviews with experts about studying and teaching commodity frontiers in theory and in practice.
More information at the journal’s website…
Editorial Board
Mindi Schneider, Senior Editor
Editors-in-Chief
Sven Beckert, Ulbe Bosma, Mindi Schneider, Eric Vanhaute
Section Editors
Feature Article - Kristina Dietz, Bettina Engels
Studying Commodity Frontiers - Samuël Coghe, Shaohua Zhan
Teaching Commodity Frontiers - Gayatri A. Menon, Elisabet Rasch
Historians take on the Present - Pim de Zwart, Mamoudou Sy, Simon Jackson
Commodity Frontier Political Ecology - Andrew Curley, Mattias Borg Rasmussen
Conflicts, Frictions, and Counternarratives - Katie Sandwell, Serena Stein
Creative Frontiers - Maarten Vanden Eynde, Marjolein Dijkman
From the Field - Hanne Cottyn, Sthandiwe Yeni
Publications - Ernst Langthaler, Rafael Marquese
Op-Eds - Mindi Schneider
Events and Announcements - Claudia Bernardi
Commodity Frontiers 1 (2020): Mineral Frontiers
Table of Contents
Editorial Introduction
Mindi Schneider
Feature Article
Gold is not for Eating: Conflicts Related to Gold Mining in Burkina Faso
Bettina Engels
Studying Commodity Frontiers
Making Sense of Global Gold Mining
Boris Verbrugge and Maria Eugenia Robles Mengoa
Teaching Commodity Frontiers
Teaching Extraction and its Discontents: A Conversation with Anna Zalik
Gayatri Menon
Historians take on the Present
Copper, Llamas and a Virus: A Tale of Historically Entangled Frontiers
Hanne Cottyn
Commodity Frontier Political Ecology
Frontiers of the Green Energy Transition: An Interview about Lithium Mining in South America
Maria Cariola
Conflicts, Frictions, and Counternarratives
Anti-Mining Conflicts and Degrowth
Julien-François Gerber
Creative Frontiers
On-Trade-Off: Countering Extractivism by Transnational Artist’s Collaborations
Lotte Arndt and Oulimata Gueye
From the Field
“COVID-19 has Crippled Our Struggle”: An Interview with Pinky Langa
Sithandiwe Yeni
Publications
Mining and Historical Capitalism: Book Reviews
Leonardo Marques
Op-Eds
WWF’s “Living Planet Report 2020” and the Long History of Capitalism
Ulbe Bosma
The End of Naïve Europe, The Rise of Green Imperialism
Alberto Vázquez Ruiz
Events and Announcements
Claudia Bernardi
Open access at https://library.wur.nl/ojs/index.php/commodity-frontiers/issue/view/2916
or via https://commodityfrontiers.com/journal/