My main research interest is on the political economy of the environment and development, through interdisciplinary perspectives such as environmental studies and biocultural diversity as well as critical perspectives like world-systems theory and the study of capitalism, imperialism, and environmental justice.
Books
Mariko Frame. Ecological Imperialism, Development and the Capitalist World-System: Cases from Africa and Asia, Routledge (2023)
Grassroots Responses to Extractivism: Case Studies From Around the World, co-edited with Sam Grant and Felix Mantz, Bloomsbury Publishers (forthcoming)
Select peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters
Mariko Frame. (forthcoming) “Too Big To Fail, Too Monstrous to Survive: Capitalism, Extractivism, and the Ecological Challenges for Anti-Capitalist Movements,” Rethinking Marxism
Mariko Frame. (Forthcoming) Stefan Ouma’s Farming As Financial Asset in the Broader Context of Imperialism and Ecological Crises, Global South
Mariko Frame. (2023). Integrating Degrowth and World-Systems Theory: Toward a Research Agenda, Perspectives on Global Development and Technology, 21(5-6), 426-448. doi: https://doi.org/10.1163/15691497-12341641
Mariko Frame. (2022) “Ecological Imperialism: A World-Systems Approach.” American Journal of Economics and Sociology, Volume 81, Issue 3.
Mariko Frame, William McDowell, Ellen Fitzpatrick (2021). “Ecological Contradictions of the UN Sustainable Development Goals in Malaysia.” Journal of Environment and Development. Volume 0(0), 1-34
Mariko Frame. 2018. “The Role of the Semiperiphery in Ecologically Unequal Exchange: A Case Study of Land Grabbing in Cambodia,” in R. Scott Frey, Paul Gellert, and Harry Dahms’s edited volume (titled Ecologically Unequal Exchange: Environmental Injustice in Comparative and Historical Perspective), published by Palgrave-Macmillan.
Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Grant (2013)
Courses: International Economics, Sustainable Development, Ecological Economics, History of Capitalism, Principles of Microeconomics, Introduction to Economics
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