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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?
This research project compares the historical transition from coal to natural gas in the Netherlands (1963–1980) with today’s shift toward renewable energy.
Large-scale plantation slavery and forced labour, massive environmental damage and a now uncontrollable obesity pandemic. All this for a product we don't actually need.
