What's Natural About Capital? Agroecology as Resistance to the New Frontier of Colonial Capitalist Carbon Farming
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3835004 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Tammi Jonas (0000-0001-7208-0626, The University of Western Australia, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 35 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 43-63 |
| Publication date | 2024-07-02 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Capitalism Nature Socialism (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1045-5752 • E-ISSN: 1548-3290 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/10455752.2024.2360890 |
| OpenAlex | W4399440427 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 35 |
The recent acceleration of the financialisation of nature, in which a farmer's role as a good custodian of land has shifted from a moral obligation to an economic opportunity, has expanded capitalism's spheres of accumulation beyond agricultural commodities to the very building blocks they rely upon: water, carbon, and biodiversity. This "metabolic shift" [Moore, Jason W. 2017. "Metabolic Rift or Metabolic Shift? Dialectics, Nature, and the World-Historical Method." Theory and Society 46 (4): 285-318. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11186-017-9290-6] deepens the metabolic rift between economy and ecology in a self-defeating repudiation of farmers' environmental values. The resulting hegemony in neoliberal colonial capitalism is accelerating rather than ameliorating climate change and biodiversity loss. In this paper, I analyse the values and activities of three farmer organisations in what is now called Australia, concluding that it is in convivial, not capitalist, agriculture - agroecology - that we will find intergenerational and decolonial justice and assure everyone's right to flourish in common
Agricultural economics · Agriculture · Agroecology · Agronomy · Archaeology · Biology · Capital (architecture · Colonialism · Economics · Frontier · Geography · Natural (archaeology · Natural capital · Political science · Resistance (ecology · Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development · Global trade, sustainability, and social impact · Ecology
Agroecology
Peasants and the Art of Farming
Feminism and the Mastery of Nature
Climate Capitalism
Degrowth
The Broken Promise of Agricultural Progress
Utopia as Method
Milpa ecologies
Green economy and carbon markets for conservation and development
Some Thoughts about the Philosophical Underpinnings of Aboriginal Worldviews
A genealogy of sustainable agriculture narratives
Food security in welfare capitalism
The challenge of locating land-based climate change mitigation and adaptation politics within a social justice perspective
Bound by Chains of Carbon
Food sovereignty as decolonization
Is there such a thing as a capitalist eschatology
Extractive Logic of the Coloniality of Nature
Recognizing the Martuwarra's First Law Right to Life as a Living Ancestral Being
Sand talk
Agroecology and Radical Grassroots Movements' Evolving Moral Economies
Anatomies of Relatedness
Marx's Theory of Metabolic Rift
Reworking the metabolic rift
Agrarian change and peasant studies
La Via Campesina - transforming agrarian and knowledge politics, and co-constructing a field
Food sovereignty and new peasantries
Green Grabbing
Metabolic rift or metabolic shift? dialectics, nature, and the world-historical method
| Citations per year | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2025 - 2026 (2) |
| Highly cited | No |