Catalysing Socio-Ecological Change: The Extraction and Processing of Edible Oils, 1910-1940
Abstract This article argues that histories of global north and south are interconnected and inseparable parts of the same processes that shaped different environments. In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, systematic science-based commodification attributed economic and use values to natural r...
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crliverpoolup:10.3197/ge.2022.150207 2024-04-07T07:48:11+00:00 Catalysing Socio-Ecological Change: The Extraction and Processing of Edible Oils, 1910-1940 Veraart, Frank 2022 http://dx.doi.org/10.3197/ge.2022.150207 https://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/whp/ge/2022/00000015/00000002/art00009 en eng Liverpool University Press Global Environment volume 15, issue 2, page 370-397 ISSN 1973-3739 2053-7352 Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law History Global and Planetary Change journal-article 2022 crliverpoolup https://doi.org/10.3197/ge.2022.150207 2024-03-08T02:46:28Z Abstract This article argues that histories of global north and south are interconnected and inseparable parts of the same processes that shaped different environments. In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, systematic science-based commodification attributed economic and use values to natural resources. This changed western perceptions of natural environments. The commodification of plant and animal oils led to global entanglements of European production and consumption with resource extraction sites in Africa, Asia and the Antarctic. These historical accounts are often written in national frames or focused on one commodity. This article explores the global in ter- and cross linkages with and between extraction regions. The historical distribution of sustainability gains and costs was continuously negotiated through building these global supply chains. I trace socio-technical changes from 1910 to 1940, when West European margarine industries constructed the entangled global resource supply chains. This article scrutinises the contestation, tensions and outcomes, revealing the conflicting values, interests and differences in power relations between indigenous actors and the global system entanglers active in Congo, Indonesia and the Antarctic. My analysis highlights the social and ecological changes in the entangled regions, and sketches the global economic, social and ecological trade-offs of these developments. Article in Journal/Newspaper Antarc* Antarctic Liverpool University Press Antarctic The Antarctic Global Environment 15 2 370 397 |
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Abstract This article argues that histories of global north and south are interconnected and inseparable parts of the same processes that shaped different environments. In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, systematic science-based commodification attributed economic and use values to natural resources. This changed western perceptions of natural environments. The commodification of plant and animal oils led to global entanglements of European production and consumption with resource extraction sites in Africa, Asia and the Antarctic. These historical accounts are often written in national frames or focused on one commodity. This article explores the global in ter- and cross linkages with and between extraction regions. The historical distribution of sustainability gains and costs was continuously negotiated through building these global supply chains. I trace socio-technical changes from 1910 to 1940, when West European margarine industries constructed the entangled global resource supply chains. This article scrutinises the contestation, tensions and outcomes, revealing the conflicting values, interests and differences in power relations between indigenous actors and the global system entanglers active in Congo, Indonesia and the Antarctic. My analysis highlights the social and ecological changes in the entangled regions, and sketches the global economic, social and ecological trade-offs of these developments. |
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