In this article we analyse and theorise how power is exercised and subjectivities reworked to
achieve and maintain socio‐political order in areas of large‐scale international extractive …

In recent decades, alongside the emergence of a truly globalized mining industry, we have
seen a strong expansion of predominantly informal artisanal and small-scale gold mining …

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

How has capitalism created or enhanced racism? In what ways do the violent histories of
slavery and empire continue to influence the allocation of global resources? Rethinking …

This essay introduces and invites contributions to a new Journal of Peasant Studies Forum
on 'climate change and critical agrarian studies'. Climate change is inextricably entwined …

The expansion of capitalism produces contests over the definition and control of resources.
On a global scale, new patterns of resource exploration, extraction, and commodification …

A significant outcome of the global crisis for refugees has been the abandonment of forced
migrants to live in makeshift camps inside the EU. This paper details how state authorities …

This article explores how time interacts forcefully with the experience of living within toxic
spaces. Through ethnographic research and interviews with residents of a contaminated …

James Ferguson examines the rise of social welfare programs in southern Africa in which
states give cash payments to their low income citizens. These programs, Ferguson argues …

An intimate account of the emergence of capitalist relations among indigenous highlanders
in Indonesia who privatized their common land to plant a boom crop, cacao. Spurred by the …