Commodity Frontiers 1 (2020)

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/