Open AccessLivestock, Colonialism, and Commodity Frontiers in the U.S. Southwest
Author(s) -
Andrew Curley
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
commodity frontiers
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2667-2448
pISSN - 2667-243X
DOI - 10.18174/cf.2021a18162
Subject(s) - colonialism , frontier , commodity , globe , livestock , production (economics) , economy , history , political economy , political science , economics , sociology , geography , market economy , archaeology , psychology , macroeconomics , neuroscience , forestry
Commodity frontiers are a useful way to think about the expansion and rearticulation of capitalist modes of production across the globe. A weakness of this approach is to miss deeper histories of colonialism and domination at the sites of the metaphorical frontier. This commentary thinks through Diné relationship with sheep to think through how livestock often contains older relationships that transcend colonial limitations.