Fany Lobos Castro is an activist-scholar based in the rural territories of Maule Sur, Chile. The women of these territories are struggling to defend their …
During the 2014-2015 Ebola outbreak that affected the Mano River region, humanitarian response teams were sent to West Africa to help the affected countries to …
Sugar has become a mainstay of contemporary diets. Sometimes visible in the form of sweets and heaping teaspoons of white powder dumped into coffee and …
With the increasing availability of memory devices that supplement or in many cases surpass our biological memory, the question of where the body ends and …
This contribution considers sex work as social reproductive work in gendered capitalist structures. Exploring the role that sex workers played and continue to play in …
Scientific management and work rationalization are usually associated with the rise of industrial capitalism and factory labor. This narrow perspective, however, obscures the rural and …
The prison is a commodity frontier. Building on the work of Ruth Wilson Gilmore and Abolitionist Geographies, the prison-industrial complex is indeed a space where …
Over the past years,the Republic of Georgia has emerged as an important surrogacy hub at Israel’s “fertility frontier,” where cheaper and more readily available surrogates …
Renewable energy seems to be both inextricably and indiscriminately linked to the so-called ‘green energy transition,’ which is put forward as one of the necessary …
Karen Rignall’s recent book, An Elusive Common: Land, Politics, and Agrarian Rurality in a Moroccan Oasis (Cornell University Press, 2021), examines the dynamics of rural …
This piece describes Brazil’s 1970s sugarcane ethanol production boom and the arrival of the cane frontier in western São Paulo state. It argues that this …