Open AccessStimulant Frontiers
Author(s) -
Mindi Schneider,
Ulbe Bosma
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
commodity frontiers
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2667-2448
pISSN - 2667-243X
DOI - 10.18174/cf.2021a18089
Subject(s) - stimulant , commodity , capital (architecture) , power (physics) , political science , sociology , political economy , economics , history , market economy , psychology , psychiatry , physics , archaeology , quantum mechanics
Stimulants have, in their own ways, played a leading role in shaping today’s globalised world. Their world-shaping power stems from their double role: as “agents” that stimulate bodies, and as things that “rouse and incite” capital. In this issue of Commodity Frontiers, contributions center on the histories and presents of some of the leading stimulant crops and the sites and processes of their cultivation, expansion, and transformations. Contributors variously consider stimulants from the perspectives of bodies and capital, sometimes touching on their overlaps.