Mineral Frontiers – Issue 1

The first issue of Commodity Frontiers was published on 30 September 2020. Read individual articles through the links below, or download a pdf of the entire issue.


Editorial Introduction
Mindi Schneider  
https://doi.org/10.18174/cf.2020a17973

Feature Article
Bettina Engels
Gold is not for Eating: Conflicts Related to Gold Mining in Burkina Faso 
https://doi.org/10.18174/cf.2020a17960

Studying Commodity Frontiers
Boris Verbrugge and Maria Eugenia Robles Mengoa
Making Sense of Global Gold Mining
https://doi.org/10.18174/cf.2020a17961

Teaching Commodity Frontiers
Gayatri Menon
Teaching Extraction and its Discontents: A Conversation with Anna Zalik
https://doi.org/10.18174/cf.2020a17965

Historians take on the Present
Hanne Cottyn
Copper, Llamas and a Virus: A Tale of Historically Entangled Frontiers
https://doi.org/10.18174/cf.2020a17966

Commodity Frontier Political Ecology
Maria Cariola
Frontiers of the Green Energy Transition: An Interview about Lithium Mining in South America
https://doi.org/10.18174/cf.2020a17967

Conflicts, Frictions, and Counternarratives
Julien-François Gerber
Anti-Mining Conflicts and Degrowth
https://doi.org/10.18174/cf.2020a17968

Creative Frontiers
Lotte Arndt and Oulimata Gueye in close exchange with the members of On-Trade-Off  On-Trade-Off: Countering Extractivism by Transnational Artist’s Collaborations
https://doi.org/10.18174/cf.2020a17969

From the Field
Sithandiwe Yeni  
“COVID-19 has Crippled Our Struggle”: An Interview with Pinky Langa
https://doi.org/10.18174/cf.2020a17963

Publications
Leonardo Marques  
Mining and Historical Capitalism: Book Reviews
https://doi.org/10.18174/cf.2020a17970

Op-Ed
Ulbe Bosma  
WWF’s “Living Planet Report 2020” and the Long History of Capitalism
https://doi.org/10.18174/cf.2020a17971

Op-Ed
Alberto Vázquez Ruiz
The End of Naïve Europe, The Rise of Green Imperialism
https://doi.org/10.18174/cf.2020a17975

Events and Announcements
Claudia Bernardi  
https://doi.org/10.18174/cf.2020a17972

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