Projects in this cluster look at the consequences of commodity extraction, production, exchange and consumption and the consequences for labour and environment. The focus is on commodity frontiers, to be defined as processes and sites of the incorporation of resources into the expanding capitalist world economy. Main questions concern the consequences of this frontiers expansion for labour relations, natural assets and the environment? How does this affect workers at these frontiers? How do they resist these processes?
See also the Commodity Frontiers Initiative
From the rise of atomic fission in the 1940s to the Chernobyl disaster of the 1980s, the future was nuclear. Scientists, politicians and policy makers predicted a transition to a new, virtually inexhaustible, cheap and “clean” energy source. But this first “energy transition” met with resistance in nations across the globe. In the Netherlands various groups united in the anti-nuclear energy movement (AKB).
