Over the past 600 years, commodity frontiers–processes and sites of the incorporation of
resources into the expanding capitalist world economy–have absorbed ever more land, ever …

Commons—resources used or governed by groups of heterogeneous users through agreed-
upon institutional arrangements—are the subject of one of the more successful research …

Research on extractivism has rapidly proliferated, expanding into new empirical and
conceptual spaces. We examine the origins, evolution, and conceptual expansion of the …

In this article, I contribute to theorization of the modern era as the Plantationocene, a concept
grounded in life on the land and centered around the role of the plantation in sustaining a …

Abstract The European Union (EU) is highly dependent on importing raw materials for low-
carbon infrastructures from around the globe. This material dependence has, since 2019 …

For many years, studies of peasants and pastoralists have run in parallel, creating mutual
blind-spots. This article argues that, despite contrasting research traditions and conceptual …

The implementation of the green economy in Tanzania is currently re-arranging space in
significant ways. The Southern Agricultural Growth Corridor of Tanzania (SAGCOT) has …

ABSTRACT La Via Campesina has revalorized agrarian politics, transformed knowledge
politics, and co-constructed the field of Critical Agrarian Studies. It has shown the important …

Ecological catastrophe and global inequality are pressing, yet socio-ecologically destructive
natural resource extraction continues unabated. This special issue explores the strategies …

This book explores the existential redistributions that extractivist frontiers create, going
beyond existing studies by bringing into the English-language discussion much of the …