Entanglements of violence and care: feminist analysis of commodity frontiers and “living green”

Can we save the world by living green lives? Attempts to change our lifestyles are multiplying, following calls for green transition. Yet, research shows that new green commodity frontiers have intensified inequalities and dramatic changes to landscapes, livelihoods, and human - non-human relationships. Sisal and date palm commodity frontiers have re-emerged as responses to creating sustainable and green solutions. Our aim is to understand how such frontiers produce entanglements between violence and care. Novelty of our project comes from bringing together three sites of commodity frontier's production network: farmers, value-adders, and digital platforms. With feminist political ecology perspective – focus on intersectional human-non-human relations, embodied need-care relations and hierarcies - the project offers new theoretical and empirical knowledge of the consequences and the real price of “living green”.