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ISSN 1973-3739 · The White Horse Press · 97 artikel di indeks
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Advocating for Inclusive Narratives: A Call for Critical Engagement with the Palm Oil Agribusiness Sector
The palm oil industry, a significant economic driver in South-east Asia, remains at the centre of intense global scrutiny due to environmental and human rights concerns persist. Despite its high productivity per hectare, critics continue to raise concerns about its role in deforestation…
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Fat: Lubricant of Modernity
This article explores the global history of fat as both a vital nutrient and a versatile industrial commodity from the nineteenth to early twentieth centuries. The study highlights fat’s expanding applications – from foodstuffs like margarine and shortening to non-food products including soaps…
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Food Chemistry, Fat Experiment and Palm Oil in Late Soviet Politics and Industry
This article discusses the development of food chemistry in the Soviet Union beginning in the late 1950s. It analyses how, amid a growing cult of chemistry, scientists sought to address food crises and envisioned the creation of modern, scientifically engineered food. This study examines the…
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Cod and its Oil, Cuisine and its Supplements: Fish Fragmentation, Commodity Connections and Naturalising Resources in Newfoundland
By spotlighting cod liver oil as an example of a global fat and reflecting on the commercialisation of fish – from food source and medicine to dietary supplement – this article surveys cod’s colonial history in Newfoundland alongside cultural imaginations of resources. The oil’s popularity boomed…
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Fish Oil’s Journey through Russian and Soviet History
Throughout Russian, Soviet and post-Soviet eras, fish oil has repeatedly changed its role as scientific and technological advances rendered earlier uses obsolete. Originally prized by coastal communities as a dense caloric supplement, it evolved into a cornerstone source of vitamins A and D and…
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Autarkic, but Global: Fat Supply and Whaling in Pre-war Nazi Germany
Nazi Germany started whaling in the Antarctic Ocean in 1936 as a result of its high dependence on fat imports and a shortage of foreign currency. While this was part of a policy geared towards self-sufficiency or autarky, whaling did not cut Germany off from the international links that…
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Meanings of Sustainability: the Invention of Sustainable Palm Oil
Palm oil production started in the early twentieth century and expanded tremendously from the 1970s, with the area of palm oil plantations in Malaysia alone increasing by a factor of 74 between 1975 and 2010, causing significant tropical deforestation, carbon emissions and loss of biodiversity…
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Roots and Dynamics of Dutch Foreign Plant-oil Demands 1920–2020
Dutch harbours became key notes in European foreign fat supply in the twentieth century. These imports of oils and fats have had significant economic, social and environmental impacts worldwide. Demand for these resources was driven by food industries, intensive livestock farming and fossil fuel…
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Global Entanglements of Palm Oil and Kernel Extraction from French West Africa (c. 1840–1960)
This article links the regional history of palm oil and kernel extraction in French West Africa to the global history of fat resources. It argues that what happened to fat resources produced and consumed elsewhere is crucial to understanding how the extraction of West African palm products…
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Whaling as an Interim Oil Supply Industry: The Rise and Fall of Whale Oil in the Competitive Fat and Oil Markets
Whale oil, a general term for products derived from the fats and oils of numerous cetacean species, is a global resource whose purveyors have historically been buffeted by economic, technological, and environmental forces. It remained a viable international commodity in the first half of the…
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Persecuted and Paralysed: Climate Scepticism between Greenhouse Physics and Populist Politics in Hungary
This study explores the history and scientific foundations of the Hungarian climate change sceptic movement in the literature and media coverage to determine the movement’s potential influence on national climate politics. We demonstrate how personal factors, relationships, motivations and…
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Provincialising Foot-and-Mouth Disease: The Construction of the African Buffalo as Disease Reservoir in Botswana, 1961–1976
Global foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) control policy is largely based on nineteenth-century British ideas about the disease. This partiality risks creating the impression that these ideas of the disease are universal. In this article, therefore, we provincialise the notion of FMD by describing how…
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Mahua: A Lifesaving Famine Food in the Nineteenth Century
During the colonial period, officials deemed the flowers of mahua (Madhuca longifolia) to be 'low quality' and 'food for the poor' and even attempted to restrict their use. Despite this, the highly nutritious mahua flower held a significant place in the day-to-day lives of the Adivasis in…
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Green Imperialism and the Paradox of Colonial Conservation: Forest Governance in Punjab (ca. 1860–1880)
Colonial forest policies in India combined conservation and exploitation, managing landscapes for protection while serving the interests of the empire. Focusing on the period from around until 1880, Punjab emerged as a key site for implementing and institutionalising these policies. This paper…