Mads Barbesgaard
Biographic Data
| ID | 102743 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mads Barbesgaard |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mads |
| FAMILY NAME | Barbesgaard |
| SIGNATURE | BARBESGAARD M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Lund University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1624-4961 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 180 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
The Invisible Sand: Unpacking Metabolic Flows and Earthly Entanglements in Extended Urbanization
This essay exposes the invisible sand extraction that underpins Copenhagen’s transformation from fishing village to global city, tracing how planetary material flows sustain urban expansion while entangling the city in processes of capital accumulation, class restructuring, and ecological degradation. A science and technology studies (STS) approach from within Marxian political ecology foregrounds how sand functions as both resource and agent: bo…
Caught in the coop: Local labour control regimes in poultry supply chains under avian influenza
Outbreaks of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) pose an escalating threat to global poultry supply chains, with their management highlighting reconfigurations in economic geography through the increasing centrality of actors and processes beyond the farm-level. Taking HPAI outbreaks in Denmark as our empirical focus, we argue that outbreaks and their management reveal poultry growers’ lack of control over the labour process. Growers organiz…
Providing students with a compass to navigate: Teaching political economy to human geography students
Despite the centrality of economic theories (including political economic theories) in human geographic research, there is a massive shortage of courses covering this topic in many human geography departments. In this paper, we use the example of a third-semester elective MSc course in political economic theory designed for students in human geography to contribute to this point. The course aims to introduce some essential elements of economic th…
Dangerous Liaisons: Unveiling the Co‐Constitution of Emerging Infectious Diseases and Industrial Meat Production
Outbreaks of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) have intensified over the last decade, spotlighting the concept of “epicentre” as a means of locating disease origins. Although epicentre thinking can facilitate rapid interventions, it often overlooks the political‐economic and ecological forces driving outbreaks. Drawing on critical geography, political ecology, and global supply chain analyses, we reconceptualise the epicentre as “a set of …
How to turn over an egg: Rethinking the temporality of global value chains amidst emerging infectious diseases
The temporality of global value chains is an important area of concern for economic geographers. This paper argues for the analytical value of closely examining the category of 'turnover time' as articulated in Marx's work and subsequent historical-geographical materialism. We argue that turnover times of capitals in competition - hence struggles over time - can be conceptualised as a driving force behind what the GVC literature refers to as 'cha…
Turnover time in the pandemic era: Industrial Poultry, Avian Influenza and Capitalist Strategies
Beyond Contracts: Supply Chains and Dynamics of Incorporation Among Classes of Capital in the Aftermath of Global Outbreaks of Avian Flu
This study investigates how agricultural producers are incorporated into commodity circuits under contemporary capitalism, in the context of growing pressures from emerging infectious diseases. Focusing on poultry production systems in Denmark and Norway currently under threat from highly pathogenic avian influenza, we argue that understanding these dynamics requires an expanded conception of agriculture that accounts for the contractual arrangem…
The Class Dynamics of Ocean Grabbing: Who Are the 'Fisher Peoples
Amidst processes of (uneven) dispossession and displacement of coastal populations-often termed 'ocean grabbing'-scholar-activists, NGOs and the leadership of different social movements invoke, so-called, 'fisher people' as the political subjects of resistance. These 'fisher people' are often cast as capital's other as part of a normative and moral critique of ocean grabbing and purportedly the agents of change towards 'blue justice'. Arguing for…
Blood on the floor: The nickel commodity frontier and inter-capitalist competition under green extractivism
Major companies in the mining industry are strategizing to benefit from the expected rise in demand for energy "transition minerals" that underpin current technologies of decarbonization (such as batteries and wind turbines). This article elucidates their current strategies of accumulation through the case of BHP, the world's largest mining company. We draw on political ecology and commodity frontier theory in order to grapple with inter-capitali…
The politics of Myanmar's agrarian transformation
Myanmar is in a dangerous and uncertain moment following the military coup on 1 February 2021. The articles in this Special Forum provide timely contextual analysis. Written before the coup, the articles delve into the politics of agrarian transformation in the context of (what was then) an ongoing (but fragile) opening up of political space. This introduction outlines three themes that connect the articles and now also shed some light on what th…
The Blue Fix: What's driving blue growth
This article explores the politics behind the promise of ‘blue growth’. Reframing it as a ‘blue fix’, we argue that the blue growth discourse facilitates new opportunities for capital accumulation, while claiming that this accumulation is compatible with social and ecological aims as well. The blue fix is made up of three underlying sub-fixes. First of all, the conservation fix quenches the social thirst for action in the face of climate change. …
Awash with contradiction: Capital, ocean space and the logics of the Blue Economy Paradigm
Ocean and land control-grabbing: The political economy of landscape transformation in Northern Tanintharyi, Myanmar
Blue growth: Savior or Ocean Grabbing
While the global rush to control land resources is well established, 'power-grabs' in relation to marine and coastal resources are less well researched. Under the banner of 'blue growth', such power-grabs are taking shape through global policy processes that purportedly align the needs of the poor with profit interests and climate change concerns. This contribution critically interrogates these policy proposals and situates them within broader ne…
Blue growth: Savior or Ocean Grabbing
While the global rush to control land resources is well established, 'power-grabs' in relation to marine and coastal resources are less well researched. Under the banner of 'blue growth', such power-grabs are taking shape through global policy processes that purportedly align the needs of the poor with profit interests and climate change concerns. This contribution critically interrogates these policy proposals and situates them within broader ne…
Ocean and land control-grabbing: The political economy of landscape transformation in Northern Tanintharyi, Myanmar
Awash with contradiction: Capital, ocean space and the logics of the Blue Economy Paradigm
The politics of Myanmar's agrarian transformation
Myanmar is in a dangerous and uncertain moment following the military coup on 1 February 2021. The articles in this Special Forum provide timely contextual analysis. Written before the coup, the articles delve into the politics of agrarian transformation in the context of (what was then) an ongoing (but fragile) opening up of political space. This introduction outlines three themes that connect the articles and now also shed some light on what th…
The Blue Fix: What's driving blue growth
This article explores the politics behind the promise of ‘blue growth’. Reframing it as a ‘blue fix’, we argue that the blue growth discourse facilitates new opportunities for capital accumulation, while claiming that this accumulation is compatible with social and ecological aims as well. The blue fix is made up of three underlying sub-fixes. First of all, the conservation fix quenches the social thirst for action in the face of climate change. …
The Class Dynamics of Ocean Grabbing: Who Are the 'Fisher Peoples
Amidst processes of (uneven) dispossession and displacement of coastal populations-often termed 'ocean grabbing'-scholar-activists, NGOs and the leadership of different social movements invoke, so-called, 'fisher people' as the political subjects of resistance. These 'fisher people' are often cast as capital's other as part of a normative and moral critique of ocean grabbing and purportedly the agents of change towards 'blue justice'. Arguing for…
Dangerous Liaisons: Unveiling the Co‐Constitution of Emerging Infectious Diseases and Industrial Meat Production
Outbreaks of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) have intensified over the last decade, spotlighting the concept of “epicentre” as a means of locating disease origins. Although epicentre thinking can facilitate rapid interventions, it often overlooks the political‐economic and ecological forces driving outbreaks. Drawing on critical geography, political ecology, and global supply chain analyses, we reconceptualise the epicentre as “a set of …
Turnover time in the pandemic era: Industrial Poultry, Avian Influenza and Capitalist Strategies
Beyond Contracts: Supply Chains and Dynamics of Incorporation Among Classes of Capital in the Aftermath of Global Outbreaks of Avian Flu
This study investigates how agricultural producers are incorporated into commodity circuits under contemporary capitalism, in the context of growing pressures from emerging infectious diseases. Focusing on poultry production systems in Denmark and Norway currently under threat from highly pathogenic avian influenza, we argue that understanding these dynamics requires an expanded conception of agriculture that accounts for the contractual arrangem…
Blood on the floor: The nickel commodity frontier and inter-capitalist competition under green extractivism
Major companies in the mining industry are strategizing to benefit from the expected rise in demand for energy "transition minerals" that underpin current technologies of decarbonization (such as batteries and wind turbines). This article elucidates their current strategies of accumulation through the case of BHP, the world's largest mining company. We draw on political ecology and commodity frontier theory in order to grapple with inter-capitali…
Blue growth: Savior or Ocean Grabbing
While the global rush to control land resources is well established, 'power-grabs' in relation to marine and coastal resources are less well researched. Under the banner of 'blue growth', such power-grabs are taking shape through global policy processes that purportedly align the needs of the poor with profit interests and climate change concerns. This contribution critically interrogates these policy proposals and situates them within broader ne…
Ocean and land control-grabbing: The political economy of landscape transformation in Northern Tanintharyi, Myanmar
The Blue Fix: What's driving blue growth
This article explores the politics behind the promise of ‘blue growth’. Reframing it as a ‘blue fix’, we argue that the blue growth discourse facilitates new opportunities for capital accumulation, while claiming that this accumulation is compatible with social and ecological aims as well. The blue fix is made up of three underlying sub-fixes. First of all, the conservation fix quenches the social thirst for action in the face of climate change. …
Awash with contradiction: Capital, ocean space and the logics of the Blue Economy Paradigm
The politics of Myanmar's agrarian transformation
Myanmar is in a dangerous and uncertain moment following the military coup on 1 February 2021. The articles in this Special Forum provide timely contextual analysis. Written before the coup, the articles delve into the politics of agrarian transformation in the context of (what was then) an ongoing (but fragile) opening up of political space. This introduction outlines three themes that connect the articles and now also shed some light on what th…
Blood on the floor: The nickel commodity frontier and inter-capitalist competition under green extractivism
Major companies in the mining industry are strategizing to benefit from the expected rise in demand for energy "transition minerals" that underpin current technologies of decarbonization (such as batteries and wind turbines). This article elucidates their current strategies of accumulation through the case of BHP, the world's largest mining company. We draw on political ecology and commodity frontier theory in order to grapple with inter-capitali…
Providing students with a compass to navigate: Teaching political economy to human geography students
Despite the centrality of economic theories (including political economic theories) in human geographic research, there is a massive shortage of courses covering this topic in many human geography departments. In this paper, we use the example of a third-semester elective MSc course in political economic theory designed for students in human geography to contribute to this point. The course aims to introduce some essential elements of economic th…
Dangerous Liaisons: Unveiling the Co‐Constitution of Emerging Infectious Diseases and Industrial Meat Production
Outbreaks of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) have intensified over the last decade, spotlighting the concept of “epicentre” as a means of locating disease origins. Although epicentre thinking can facilitate rapid interventions, it often overlooks the political‐economic and ecological forces driving outbreaks. Drawing on critical geography, political ecology, and global supply chain analyses, we reconceptualise the epicentre as “a set of …
How to turn over an egg: Rethinking the temporality of global value chains amidst emerging infectious diseases
The temporality of global value chains is an important area of concern for economic geographers. This paper argues for the analytical value of closely examining the category of 'turnover time' as articulated in Marx's work and subsequent historical-geographical materialism. We argue that turnover times of capitals in competition - hence struggles over time - can be conceptualised as a driving force behind what the GVC literature refers to as 'cha…
Turnover time in the pandemic era: Industrial Poultry, Avian Influenza and Capitalist Strategies
Beyond Contracts: Supply Chains and Dynamics of Incorporation Among Classes of Capital in the Aftermath of Global Outbreaks of Avian Flu
This study investigates how agricultural producers are incorporated into commodity circuits under contemporary capitalism, in the context of growing pressures from emerging infectious diseases. Focusing on poultry production systems in Denmark and Norway currently under threat from highly pathogenic avian influenza, we argue that understanding these dynamics requires an expanded conception of agriculture that accounts for the contractual arrangem…
The Class Dynamics of Ocean Grabbing: Who Are the 'Fisher Peoples
Amidst processes of (uneven) dispossession and displacement of coastal populations-often termed 'ocean grabbing'-scholar-activists, NGOs and the leadership of different social movements invoke, so-called, 'fisher people' as the political subjects of resistance. These 'fisher people' are often cast as capital's other as part of a normative and moral critique of ocean grabbing and purportedly the agents of change towards 'blue justice'. Arguing for…
The Invisible Sand: Unpacking Metabolic Flows and Earthly Entanglements in Extended Urbanization
This essay exposes the invisible sand extraction that underpins Copenhagen’s transformation from fishing village to global city, tracing how planetary material flows sustain urban expansion while entangling the city in processes of capital accumulation, class restructuring, and ecological degradation. A science and technology studies (STS) approach from within Marxian political ecology foregrounds how sand functions as both resource and agent: bo…
Caught in the coop: Local labour control regimes in poultry supply chains under avian influenza
Outbreaks of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) pose an escalating threat to global poultry supply chains, with their management highlighting reconfigurations in economic geography through the increasing centrality of actors and processes beyond the farm-level. Taking HPAI outbreaks in Denmark as our empirical focus, we argue that outbreaks and their management reveal poultry growers’ lack of control over the labour process. Growers organiz…
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