Stimulant Frontiers
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چکیده
Stimulants have, in their own ways, played a leading role shaping today’s globalised world. Their world-shaping power stems from double role: as “agents” that stimulate bodies, and things “rouse incite” capital. In this issue of Commodity Frontiers, contributions center on the histories presents some stimulant crops sites processes cultivation, expansion, transformations. Contributors variously consider stimulants perspectives bodies capital, sometimes touching overlaps.
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Commodity frontiers
سال: 2021
ISSN: ['2667-243X', '2667-2448']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.18174/cf.2021a18089