Oppurtunity!
The Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies at Brown University invites applications for the Craig M. Cogut Visiting Professorship in Latin American and Caribbean Studies 2026–2027.
Please share with colleagues based in Latin America and the Caribbean who may be interested!
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Last article from issue 7, stay tuned for 8!
'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, which needs lithium but also copper. […] The phase out of fossil fuels in terms of percentage of the energy mix is taking place but there is no phase out in absolute terms.'
Read the article on https://journal.commodityfrontiers.com/journal-issues/issue-7/zijin-a-growing-metal-mining-chinese-transnational-firm/ #CFI
New article from Marjolijn Dijkman and Oliver Ressler.
‘[...] it’s nothing new to inject gas into oil fields. The process is known as “enhanced oil recovery”: CO2 is injected into almost exhausted low-pressure oil fields to force out the remaining oil. The main difference is that this time, the industry wants the technology subsidized by states as “climate technology” – a purported solution for a problem caused by the same industry itself [...]'
Read the article on https://journal.commodityfrontiers.com/journal-issues/issue-7/carbon-capture-let-there-be-cracks/ #CFI
New article from Pepe Roswaldy.
'To what degree do carbon trading and offsetting serve as a form of externalization that exploits workers in the Global South, considering plantation workers will become the ones held responsible for the Global North’s attempt to reduce the majority of its carbon emissions?'
Read the article on https://journal.commodityfrontiers.com/journal-issues/issue-7/palm-oil-workers-and-decarbonization-in-indonesia/ #CFI
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 prone to climate variabilities. Several communities had to alter traditional grazing patterns due to climate variability and newly imposed land management policies under the carbon sequestration project promoted by NRT.'
Read the article on
https://journal.commodityfrontiers.com/journal-issues/issue-7/carbon-profits-or-pastoralist-precarity-the-sale-of-air-in-northern-kenyas-double-edged-climate-financing-frontier/. #CFI
New article from Mehra Gharibian and Jose Cruz.
'There are ghosts who carry the memory of these stories, as well as the memory of forms of being and thinking that were once expressed in the Central Valley. They wander through the dialectic of fields and towns which have come to characterize the ecosystem.'
Read the article on https://journal.commodityfrontiers.com/journal-issues/issue-7/ghost-stories-of-the-central-valley-a-conversation-with-jose-cruz/ #CFI
New book review from Julia Loginova, of Andrew Curley's 'Carbon Sovereignty: Coal, Development, and Energy Transition in the Navajo Nation'.
‘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 to exploit (or abandon) these resources.’
Read the article on https://journal.commodityfrontiers.com/journal-issues/issue-7/whose-power/. #CFI
New article from Tomás Bartoletti, Samuël Coghe and Victor Seow.
‘What I found a little bit surprising was how the state tends to be relegated in the background of these various narratives. One of the main things I tried to do in Carbon Technocracy […] was to foreground how the state was complicit in the turn toward fossil fuels, partly because the realization of many state ambitions rested on securing greater access to energy.’
Read the article on https://journal.commodityfrontiers.com/journal-issues/issue-7/carbon-technocracy-energy-regimes-in-modern-east-asia/. #CFI
New article from Sayako Kanda.
‘It can be said that the diversity and regional differences in energy use enabled industrial development […] and maintained the livelihood of people in the long run […]. Using diverse fuels, whether fossil or otherwise, can also be viewed as India’s long-term reaction to saving scarce fuel resources and mitigating fuel shortages.’
Read the article on https://journal.commodityfrontiers.com/journal-issues/issue-7/coal-firewood-and-grass-regionality-and-diversity-in-energy-use-in-colonial-india/ #CFI
New article from Hiroki Shin and Simon Jackson.
‘Whilst scholars, especially geographers and anthropologists, have discussed the spatial dimensions of carbon frontiers in relation to colonial extraction and sacrifice zones, we have yet to appreciate the temporal aspects of carbon frontiers. This is probably where historians can make a significant contribution.’
Read the article on https://journal.commodityfrontiers.com/journal-issues/issue-7/carbon-frontiers-an-interview-with-hiroki-shin/
