A (Alberto) Alonso Fradejas

I am an editorial team member of The Journal of Peasant Studies (JPS), an associate researcher at the Transnational Institute (TNI) in Amsterdam, and a fellow of the Guatemalan Institute of Agrarian and Rural Studies (IDEAR).

My work discusses the nexus between the global sustainability turn and the conditions for social reproduction in a critical and intersectional fashion. In so doing, I pay special attention to labor, social reproductive and resource property regimes, and to the making of and responses by those deemed as ´relative surplus populations.´ My empirical focus is on what I call ´green transition frontiers´ of extraction, transformation, circulation and disposal of resources, bodies, communities and knowledge for climate neutrality in the European Union that lie within and beyond its borders. Specifically, I examine the economic, environmental and ideological distribution relations and politics behind competing agroextractivist, agroindustrial and agroecological transitions, or lack thereof, in agriculture.