Commodity Frontiers Flashcards
What is a Frontier?
A Frontier is a space of encounter, interaction and changes
It is both, space of flows and space of places
Commodity Frontier as a zone…
beyond which further expansion is possible
Commodity Frontiers are… (3) ?
- transformative
- highly industrial
- ecologically destructive
Commodity Frontiers are a lot about…
agriculture, crop and land in general
- Extraction of oils and minerals
- Silver, Cole important
A Commodity is produced for…
Commodities are…
the exchange value, Commodities are goods/services that are sold/exchanged
If you don´t have something to exchange a commodity for…
then you can´t access it
Commodification is…
the process or practice that turns things into commodities (something made to be sold)
Capitalism is…(commodities)
the production of commodities by commodities
3 blind spots of Capitalism
3 externalities
1. reproductive work - not commodified,
2. nature - not priced
3. colonialism historical process of appropriating spaces, people…integration into the commodity system (but not priced again)
Transition debates are a set of discussions of people who consider themeselves… and therfore…
Marxist, and therefor have different views of capitalism
Central topics in transition debates are:
- What is the feudal society? What is capitalism?
- What is the role **of merchant capital **and the European expansion=
- What is the “prime mover” of change?
Slavery was … for capitalism, to…
Slavery was fundamental for capitalism to **accumulate capital for the Industrial Revolution **–> transfer of values which enabled to carry out the industrial revolution
The antoganism of capitalism and slavery consists in the fact, that…
Capitalism´s own development leads to the end of slavery
Primitive Accumulation implies, that…
that capitalism can´t be explained without colonialism and the dispossession of land
Capitalism is to be understood as a historical process…
of commodification of labour and nature by way of private property, a process driven by the intrinsic need to tap new opportunities for accumulation and thus new frontiers
