Human Body Frontiers – Issue 5


The fifth issue of Commodity Frontiers was published on March 30, 2023. Read individual articles through the links below, or download a pdf of the entire issue.

Editorial Introduction
Mindi Schneider  
https://doi.org/10.26300/n87z-c298

Reviews
Juri Auderset
Consigning the “Human Motor” to the History of Agricultural Work. Reflections on the Fractured Trajectory of Scientific Management and the Rationalization of Labor
https://doi.org/10.26300/0g0s-ag87

Labor Frontiers
Eglė Česnulytė
Sustaining and Contesting Commodity Frontiers: Gendered Bodies and Sex Work in Kenya
https://doi.org/10.26300/bfa4-dp24

Special Section
Sigrid Vertommen
“Fertility Frontiers”: A decolonial materialist feminist perspective on assisted reproductive technologies in Israel/Palestine
https://doi.org/10.26300/2f8f-0073

Frictions and Counternarratives
Fany Lobos Castro
Weaving Decommodified Visions of Bodies, Water and Territories: An interview with Fany Lobos Castro
https://doi.org/10.26300/192e-fe83

From the Field
Sithandiwe Yeni and Marlon Peterson
Contesting Harm at the Roots: Some Thoughts on The Prison System from a Previously Incarcerated Activist
https://doi.org/10.26300/4dhm-cb67

Studying Commodity Frontiers
Ulbe Bosma
The Human Metabolism as a Sugar Frontier
https://doi.org/10.26300/gheq-yx62

Commodity Frontier Political Ecology
Veronica Gomez-Temesio
Expendable Lives, Valuable Bodies: The Secret Journey of Ebola’s Blood
https://doi.org/10.26300/19y1-5e05

Creative Frontiers
Maarten Vanden Eynde
Before I Forget: Learning To Live With A Dynamic Memory System. A Conversation with André Fenton
https://doi.org/10.26300/73gk-8984

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