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The role of debt, death and dispossession in world-ecological transformations

Swidden commons and tar capitalism in nineteenth-century Finland

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ID2157443
AuthorsTero Toivanen (0000-0002-9957-5618, University of Helsinki), Markus Kroger (0000-0001-7324-4549, University of Helsinki)
Year2019
Volume46
Issue7
Pages1368-1388
Publication date2019-11-10
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueThe Journal of Peasant Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0306-6150 • E-ISSN: 1743-9361
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/03066150.2018.1503173
OpenAlexW2892825922
LanguageEN
Citations received11
References cited60

This article theorises about the ways in which commodity frontiers replace forest commons. New insights are offered into the role of debt, enclosures, the death of human and extra-human natures, and the role of the state in historical processes through an analysis of historical material and recent scholarship on eastern Finland's role in global capitalist expansion in the nineteenth century. The article contributes to the general study of commons and the expansion of capitalist world-ecology. We discuss how swidden commons were more sustainable than generally assumed. The article provides an original theoretical framework for studying world-ecological transformations. We argue that a study of debt, death and dispossession - which we call the three work-horses of tar capitalism - can shed new light on the expansion of commodity frontiers

Biology · Capitalism · Commodity · Commons · Debt · Economics · Economy · Market economy · Political economy · Political science · Scholarship · Sociology · State (computer science · Historical Economic and Social Studies · Law · Political Economy and Marxism · Ecology

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Citations per year1,57
Citation span2019 - 2026 (8)
Citation velocitycurrent
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