Mariko

Frame

Title

Associate Professor, Economics
Research Interests
  • International political economy
  • Political economy of the environment development
Research Summary

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.

Education
  • Ph.D., International Studies, International Political Economy and Political Theory, University of Denver
  • M.A., International Studies, Chinese Political Economy and Political Theory
  • B.A., Physics and South Asian Studies, Oberlin College
Recent Publications

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.

Honors and Awards

Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Grant (2013)

Teaching

Courses: International Economics, Sustainable Development, Ecological Economics, History of Capitalism, Principles of Microeconomics, Introduction to Economics