Commodity Frontiers Initiative

Tomorrow, 11AM São Paolo time/ 4PM Amsterdam time, we are organising a digital roundtable about the movie A Queda do Céu (The Falling Sky), by Gabriela Carneiro da Cunha and Eryk Rocha. Commentaries from Felipe Milanez and Tâmis Peixoto Parron. Register here: www.eventbrite.com/e/cfi-roundt...

Oppurtunity! The Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies at Brown University invites applications for the Craig M. Cogut Visiting Professorship of 2026–2027. Please share with colleagues based in Latin America and the Caribbean who may be interested! More info: apply.interfolio.com/176615

New article from issue 7! 'There is a clear link between the expansion of Zijin in China and Central Asia, in South America, in DR Congo, and the increased world demand for minerals required by the so-called energy transition' Read the article on journal.commodityfrontiers.com/journal-issu... #CFI

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.' Read the article on journal.commodityfrontiers.com/journal-issu... #CFI

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?' Read the article on journal.commodityfrontiers.com/journal-issu...

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...' Read it journal.commodityfrontiers.com/journal-issu.... #CFI @unibonn.bsky.social @bicc.de

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.' Read the article on journal.commodityfrontiers.com/journal-issu... #CFI

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 [...].’ Read the article on journal.commodityfrontiers.com/journal-issu.... #CFI

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.’ Read the article on journal.commodityfrontiers.com/journal-issu.... #CFI

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.’ Read the article on journal.commodityfrontiers.com/journal-issu... #CFI

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) Read the article on journal.commodityfrontiers.com/journal-issu... #CFI

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

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...