Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West

Condit, Carl W.; Cronon, William

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Section: Storage and Circulationmentioning

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“…Grain sacks, wine bottles, railroad cars, and shipping containers, to name just a few prominent examples from the literature, all unquestionably confine materials intended to exit their containers at some future point. And those holding containers often travel widely, complicating efforts to categorically distinguish storage from circulation (see Cronon, 1991; Martin, 2013; Bevan, 2014; Krüger, 2023 for elaborations of distinct configurations). Characterizations of container ships as “floating warehouses” (Sekula, 2000) and bonded railcars as “warehouses on wheels” (Orenstein, 2018) further illustrate this sort of overlap and the reality that storage is frequently “routed rather than rooted” (Hirsch, 2013, p. 18 in Gregson et al., 2017, p. 385).…”

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Geographies of storage

Randle

2024

Geography Compass

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Resource storage has long played a key role in the production of socio‐ecological arrangements and economic relations. Even so, storage as a concept has remained somewhat marginal within geographical scholarship, often obscured by an analytical focus on the dynamics of movement. Reviewing recent works from geography, science and technology studies, and anthropology that center sites and practices of storage, this essay elaborates the diverse ways in which storage arrangements mediate resource circulation and the production of space. This literature demonstrates that thinking systematically with storage can illuminate a range of novel temporal, material, and value entanglements in‐the‐making, pointing to potentially fruitful avenues for future research.

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Section: Storage and Circulationmentioning

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Section: Storage and Circulationmentioning

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Geographies of storage

Randle

2024

Geography Compass

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“…The food industry is central to this financialization vortex (Ouma, 2020). Futures markets originated as a strategy for hedging the natural uncertainties intrinsic to farming (Cronon, 1991), and governments have subsidized agricultural loans since the 19 th century. The architects of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) hoped that multilateral trade would take the guesswork out of agriculture by distributing production and consumption according to the principle of comparative advantage (Krugman, 1998).…”

Section: Financializing Food Systemsmentioning

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When Food is Finance: Seeking Global Justice for Migrant Workers

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Rosewarne

2023

SSJ

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The steady growth of international labour mobility has been one of the defining features of globalization. Alongside the liberalization of international trade, labour mobility has been a key dynamic propelling economic development in the new millennium. In recent years, migrant labour is increasingly regulated via temporary schemes, deepening and widening migrant precarity. This paper argues that a growing reliance on temporary migrant workers reflects the financialization of global agriculture. Drawing on conceptual debates among scholars of critical finance studies, migration governance and food systems, it explores the implications of financialization for social justice work, asking how a systemic understanding of the migrant experience with financial institutions and practices might enhance rights-based advocacy.

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“…Davis engaged in an urban historical ecology that at the time was not yet widely practiced, though some-like William Cronon (Cronon, 1992) in Nature's Metropolis were pointing out that the urban itself involved massive environmental footprints elsewhere and otherwise, not just abiotic commodity supply chains and not just an "urban" bounded space. Urban hinterlands were transformed in service to the city, not as a tribute but as the spoils and spoilage of capitalism.…”

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Mike Davis: Planetarity and environmentalisms: the invention of new environmental histories from the Ecology of Fear to Victorian Holocausts

Hecht

2023

Human Geography

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Mike Davis transformed the understanding of southern California and dramatically reshaped thinking about the region in his books and many articles for New Left Review. Less well known locally is his significant impact of the approaches to urban environmental history and the large-scale effects of climate events at a global level. Davis can be seen as foundational for global environmental history in his methodology: analyzing the teleconnections and impacts of a particular climate event, (in Victorian Holocausts this was an El Nino) and then parsing out the social effects. The sever El Nino he describes was key in the disenfranchisement of millions in the Colonial worlds and the creation of new indentured and sub-proletariat populations that became the labor force for new forms of plantation agriculture, infrastructure labor, and rubber extraction in tropical forests. Davis’ work provided early historical analysis on the impacts of colonial capitalism in the creation of climate vulnerability. Both his creativity in urban environmental history and its imaginaries, and the foundational research on global climate history are extraordinary contributions.

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Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West

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Geographies of storage

Geographies of storage

When Food is Finance: Seeking Global Justice for Migrant Workers

Mike Davis: Planetarity and environmentalisms: the invention of new environmental histories from the Ecology of Fear to Victorian Holocausts

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