Commodity frontiers embody global-scale power transitions, grounded in place-based frictions. These historic processes of countryside remaking involve commodification and local socio-ecological dialectics, addressed here through a (suggested) lens of “ontological encounters.”
McMichael, Philip,
"Frontiers of Commodification and Historical Capitalism"
(2022).
Commodity Frontiers.
Brown Digital Repository. Brown University Library.
https://doi.org/10.26300/4b01-sh27
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, the Journal explores the history and present of capitalism, contestation, and ecological …
