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
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
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
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
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
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
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
The Modus Operandi of Urban Agriculture Initiatives
Toward a Conceptual Framework
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
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