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Natural Resources and Capitalist Frontiers

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The text deals with the issue of "resource frontiers" that was created in the late 20th century as a result of geopolitical and economic factors, like sacrifice of most third-world countries to military intervention and corporate transnationalism blossoming. These frontiers effected outgoing ecologies and conventional existence, replacing them with capitalist multenationalism. The essay tries demonstrating the South Kalimantan area of Indonesia in the 1990s which can be a resource frontier that affects the local environment and society (Natural Resources and Capitalist Frontiers, 2003).

To support the given lectures, one of the approaches would be to analyze the latest cases of natural resource frontiers, and, in the process, establish similarities to the presented one. For example, studying the contexts of environmental frontiers like Amazonian rainforests or sub-Saharan Africa around the roles of multi-national corporations and policies of the government, can open new knowledge on the ongoing processes of capitalist expansion which is influencing ecological transformation.

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Natural Resources and Capitalist Frontiers. (2003, November 29). Economic and Political Weekly. https://www.epw.in/journal/2003/48/special-articles/natural-resources-and-capitalist-frontiers.html

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