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 …
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 …
This article analyzes the history of hydrocarbon waste across Algeria and France. Focusing on the critical years between the discovery of oil in late-colonial Algeria …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
This article focusses on an inter-disciplinary and mixed-methods study of the critical circuit of minerals from irregular mines to e-waste dumps in Ghana. The move …
The gold-mining waste frontier collides with conservation efforts in the south of the Peruvian Amazon, placing Indigenous communities in a challenging landscape. This essay shares …
The Nuclear Culture project of Ele Carpenter is the overarching title for her curatorial research into art and nuclear culture covering the full material trace …
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 …
This short essay shows how “waste”, historically and in the present, has operated as capitalism’s dialectical frontier: animating its relentless drive for profit, subtending its …
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 …
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 …
