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Commodity Frontiers Initiative @commodityfrontiers.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

Tomorrow, 11AM São Paolo time/ 4PM Amsterdam time, we are organising a digital roundtable about the movie A Queda do Céu (The Falling Sky), by Gabriela Carneiro da Cunha and Eryk Rocha. Commentaries from Felipe Milanez and Tâmis Peixoto Parron. Register here: www.eventbrite.com/e/cfi-roundt...

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Commodity Frontiers Initiative @commodityfrontiers.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

Oppurtunity! The Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies at Brown University invites applications for the Craig M. Cogut Visiting Professorship of 2026–2027. Please share with colleagues based in Latin America and the Caribbean who may be interested! More info: apply.interfolio.com/176615

Text: Craig M. Cogut Visiting Professorship in Latin American and Caribbean Studies. Accepting Applications for 2026-2027. The Watson School of International and Public Affairs at Brown University. Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies.

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Commodity Frontiers Initiative @commodityfrontiers.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

New article from issue 7! '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' Read the article on journal.commodityfrontiers.com/journal-issu... #CFI

Fig. 1. A map of Zijin’s and related investments mentioned in this article (Source: the article’s authors).

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Commodity Frontiers Initiative @commodityfrontiers.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

New article from Marjolijn Dijkman and Oliver Ressler. ‘We need to understand that the main appeal of CCS for the fossil industries lies in the huge new subsidies it promises the industry.' Read the article on journal.commodityfrontiers.com/journal-issu... #CFI

Oliver Ressler, “Carbon and Captivity”, 4K video, 33 min., 2020. Courtesy of the artist;  àngels, Barcelona; The Gallery Apart, Rome © Bildrecht, Vienna.

https://www.ressler.at/carbon_and_captivity/

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Commodity Frontiers Initiative @commodityfrontiers.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

New article from Pepe Roswaldy. 'To what degree do carbon trading and offsetting serve as a form of externalization [where] plantation workers will become the ones held responsible for the Global North’s (...) carbon emissions?' Read the article on journal.commodityfrontiers.com/journal-issu...

Harvesting of oil palm fruits. Photo provided by the author.

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Commodity Frontiers Initiative @commodityfrontiers.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

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...' Read it journal.commodityfrontiers.com/journal-issu.... #CFI @unibonn.bsky.social @bicc.de

Figure 1: Map of NRT Carbon project area within Laikipia, Samburu, Isiolo and Marsabit Counties in Northern Kenya. modified
from (Owino et al., forthcoming)

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Commodity Frontiers Initiative @commodityfrontiers.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

New article from Mehra Gharibian and Jose Cruz. '...as in other commodity frontiers, the relationship between teacher and student is imbued with the capitalist /settler context within which they live, learn, and work.' Read the article on journal.commodityfrontiers.com/journal-issu... #CFI

Photo by Mehra Gharibian: Fields of Tulare, CA.

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Commodity Frontiers Initiative @commodityfrontiers.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

New article from Julia Loginova. ‘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 [...].’ Read the article on journal.commodityfrontiers.com/journal-issu.... #CFI

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Commodity Frontiers Initiative @commodityfrontiers.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

New article from Tomás Bartoletti, Samuël Coghe and Victor Seow. ‘[T]echnocracy operates […] as an ideology that not only describes the system itself, but also the sets of ideas that animate the emergence of the system.’ Read the article on journal.commodityfrontiers.com/journal-issu.... #CFI

Image titled, in English, “Grand Sight of the Open Working Fushun Colliery. ” In the Japanese text below, there is an additional phrase, “limitless treasure house”, which appeals to the then widely held notion that Fushun’s coal resources were so bountiful as to be essentially inexhaustible. This image comes from a postcard that dates to the early 1930s. [Postcard from the author's collection.]

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Commodity Frontiers Initiative @commodityfrontiers.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

New article from Sayako Kanda. ‘Using diverse fuels, whether fossil or otherwise, can [...] be viewed as India’s long-term reaction to saving scarce fuel resources and mitigating fuel shortages.’ Read the article on journal.commodityfrontiers.com/journal-issu... #CFI

Source: Notes on the Manufacture of Salt in the Tamluk Agency by H.C. Hamilton, Salt Agent, September 23, 1852, Appendix B, British Parliamentary Papers, vol. 26, 1856.

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Commodity Frontiers Initiative @commodityfrontiers.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

New article from Hiroki Shin and Simon Jackson. ‘Where geographers and anthropologists have discussed the spatial dimensions of colonial extraction, historians can shed new light on temporal aspects.’ (edited for brevity) Read the article on journal.commodityfrontiers.com/journal-issu... #CFI

Kaymoor Coal Mine, South side of New River, upstream of New River Gorge Bridge, Fayetteville, Fayette County, WV.

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C.

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Commodity Frontiers Initiative @commodityfrontiers.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

Join us 19 June from 10-11.30pm CEST for a discussion with Sunil Amrith on his book, "The Burning Earth" followed by commentaries from Hendro Sangkoyo and Marina Bedran, and a general discussion. knaw-nl.zoom.us/j/8862454782... Meeting-ID: 886 2454 7823 Password: 339393

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Commodity Frontiers Initiative @commodityfrontiers.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

Issue 7 of Commodity Frontiers is live on our new website! Contributors explore carbon frontiers through power, conflict, and sovereignty. journal.commodityfrontiers.com/journal-issu...

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