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Victor Seow

This thought piece reflects on the workings of modern migration through the prism of metabolism. It contends that the metabolic idiom productively underscores how migration as a process is enabled and evoked by particular flows of materials and energy and how the movement of migrants engenders social and environmental transformations.

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Prelude to a Grid

Energy, Gender and Labour on an Electric Frontier

Kristin D. Phillips

-Kowalski 2002 ; Latour 1993 ; Mitchell 2011 ; Moore 2015 ). A recent return to Marx's notion of the metabolic rift ( Foster 1999 ; Kawa et al. 2019 ; Moore 2017 ; Schneider and McMichael 2010 ), for example, has scholars highlighting the role that humans

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Air in Unexpected Places

Metabolism, Design, and the Making of an ‘African’ Aircrete

Michael Degani

that are borne by particular social and ecological systems. African worlds tend to make these costs especially visible. In an article that draws on ecological readings of Marx, and in particular his exploration of ‘metabolic rift’ ( Foster 1999

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The anthropology of human-environment relations

Materialism with and without Marxism

Penny McCall Howard

exploiting wage-labor for a profit” or creating commodities for sale to a market ( Burkett 2006: 53 ). This disruption and reorganization of the purpose of human labor and production systems creates “metabolic rifts” under capitalism ( Foster 2000

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The Limits of Liberal Democracy

Prospects for Democratizing Democracy

Viviana Asara

.1080/09644019508414231 Rancière , Jacques . 2005 . La haine de la démocratie . Paris : La fabrique éditions . 10.3917/lafab.ranci.2005.01 Salleh , Ariel . 2010 . “ From Metabolic Rift to ‘Metabolic Value’: Reflections on Environmental Sociology and the Alternative

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Introduction

Civil Society and Urban Agriculture in Europe

Mary P. Corcoran and Joëlle Salomon Cavin

of Metabolic Rift ”. Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society 3 ( 2 ): 191 – 207 . doi:10.1093/cjres/rsq005 . 10.1093/cjres/rsq005 McClintock , Nathan . 2014 . “ Radical, Reformist, and Garden-Variety Neoliberal: Coming to Terms with

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Introduction

Fuelling Capture: Africa's Energy Frontiers

Michael Degani, Brenda Chalfin, and Jamie Cross

Metabolic Rift: Classical Foundations for Environmental Sociology ’. American Journal of Sociology 105 ( 2 ): 366 – 405 . https://doi.org/10.1086/210315 . Guyer , J. 2004 . Marginal Gains: Monetary Transactions in Atlantic Africa . Chicago

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Alienating students

Marxist theory in action

Megan Thiele, Yung-Yi Diana Pan, and Devin Molina

’s theory of metabolic rift: classical foundations for environmental sociology ’, The American Journal of Sociology 105 , no. 2 : 366 – 405 . 10.1086/210315 Harris , D.A. , Harris , W.M. and Fondren , K.M. ( 2015 ) ‘ Everybody eats: using

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Charlotte Prové, Denise Kemper, and Salma Loudiyi

. “ Why Farm the City? Theorizing Urban Agriculture Through a Lens of Metabolic Rift ”. Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society 3 ( 2 ): 191 – 207 . doi:10.1093/cjres/rsq005 . 10.1093/cjres/rsq005 McClintock , Nathan . 2014 . “ Radical

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How Students on College Campuses Created Opportunities for Workers in Sweatshops

A Multi-Institutional, Interlocking Approach to Political Opportunity Structure

Matthew S. Williams

.1526/003601104322919928 Ergas , Christina , and Matthew Thomas Clement . 2016 . “ Ecovillages, Restitution, and the Political-Economic Opportunity Structure: An Urban Case Study in Mitigating the Metabolic Rift .” Critical Sociology 42 : 1195 – 1211 . 10